OFFICE NOTES

 

J. C. Noblitt, Box 174, Mt. Dora, Fl. 32757, will send you a list of all the tapes (cassettes) he recorded at the Campbell Bicentennial Seminar at Bethany. I think you’ll enjoy the one I gave, which is a rather intimate view of his life as revealed in his travel letters. That one tape is 3.00 postpaid, but he’ll send you a description of all 12 tapes, which are 30.00

Speaking of tapes, we will send you a tape I did on WBRI in Indianapolis on the Restoration Movement and its major wings. It has special interest since much of it is a discussion with the emcee and questions fielded from the listeners of the popular program “Point of View.” We get them professionally reproduced for you for 3.00. It is almost an hour long.

The most frequent question I am asked in my travels is not a biblical one. Everybody wants to know how my Ouida’s name is pronounced. I asked our Ben to work it out in print where there could be no doubt, apart from phonetic symbols, and he comes up with Wee-duh, with a slight accent on the first syllable. After all, we have a lot of dear folk praying for us, and they don’t want to foul it up with the Father with something like Oh-why-da. He might not know of whom you speak! Ouida’s father named her for a lovely little girl that died of diphtheria, but it would have been just as well had he named her plain Jane or Sue. I have problems enough without having a wife with a name that folk can neither spell nor pronounce. But then again, when Mr. Pitts realized when she arrived that she was, after all, Ouida, I suppose he had no choice but to name her that. So, we’re all stuck with it, which really isn’t so bad, all things considered.

Would you be interested in a set of the Millennial Harbinger, all 41 volumes? This will be a reproduction of Campbell’s original work, with the pages slightly enlarged for easier reading. The pre-publication price of 250.00 will be a 100.00 saving over the regular price. This is only about 6.50 per volume, and what a bargain it will be if we can get enough sets sold for College Press to go ahead with their plans. We can handle your order from our office. Let us know if you are interested. Delivery could be as early as December, with all the volumes delivered at one time. If you want these at a savings, you should act at once, but you need not send any money yet.

All buffs on Restoration history will be interested in Reminiscences and Sermons by W. D. Frazee, who lived long enough ago to know the Campbells, Walter Scott, Stone and Raccoon John Smith. The book has been recently republished at 6.25. It has nearly 400 pages of interesting material.

The People’s New Testament Explanatory Notes by B. W. Johnson has been very widely used among our folk for generations, and with good reason, for it is highly informative and helpful. All these years it has been in two volumes, but now we can offer it in a single volume for only 8.50

We continue to sell the Millennial Harbinger in the 2-volume compendium, which represents some of the best of Campbell’s work. It is a beautiful set, highly readable. The price is now 12.95.

We can also provide the Home Life and Reminiscences of Alexander Campbell by his wife Selina for 4.95. This has been a longtime favorite in the Restoration library.

You might want to write for a sample copy of The Ensign Fair, edited by R. L. Kilpatrick, whom I first met this summer at the Bethany forum. I first became interested in his paper when I received a letter from his home congregation, announcing that he was being withdrawn from because of the “false teaching” in his paper and that they were no longer supporting it. A recent issue has reproductions from both Mission and Restoration Review. Since this paper represents a break with tradition from the heartland of orthodoxy, you might like to look into it. The sub price is 3.00 per year and the address is 2710 Day Road, Huntsville, AL 35801. The editor is a retired military officer and he grew up and worked among very legalistic Churches of Christ. In reading him you will see that he is doing his best to work from within, but the voice for reform is unmistakable.

We recommend anything John R. W. Stott writes, and perhaps you have not seen his Our Guilty Silence, which is 1.95. It is a vigorous challenge to the church to face up to its mission. You should also order his Only One Way, which is on the message of Galatians, at 2.25, and Christ the Controversialist, which is the best of all at 2.50.

If you would like a clear concise treatment of the world’s religions, their origins and teachings, we suggest The World’s Religions, by Norman Anderson, at 3.95. The chapter on Judaism, which brings that religion to the 1970’s and reveals that modern Jews are less Jewish than they like to think, is worth the price. Five other religions are treated, and then there is a helpful chapter on how the Christian should view them.

We’ve mentioned before that beautiful book, Sex for Christians, and we suggest it for married and unmarried alike. He comes through with statements like “The best arrangement is sexual partnership, not sexual hierarchy” in his treatment of the limits and liberties of sexual living. 2.95.