READER'S EXCHANGE

 

We are having good turnouts in our area ministers’ meetings with Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. They recently honored me as the one in this area who has done so much to help break down walls and build fellowship and love. That was encouraging. —Darrell Bolin, Lock Haven, Pa.

One neighbor, well known to us and with whom I have had discussions, threw himself to the crocodiles in the river near our house. The reason was that the witchdoctor had fingered and blamed him for his son drowning in a swimming pool accident while the neighbor was at work. The power of witchcraft is real in Zambia and the Gospel of Christ is the answer. —Chester Woodhall, Kitwe, Zambia.

You can never know what your journal means to so many people. Many students come to me with comments about how much they appreciate the articles. —Stan McDaniel, Johnson Bible College, Knoxville, Tn.

My great grandfather, David Chenault, was a strong Calvinist who disagreed with Campbell. My grandfather, David Chenault, Jr., was baptized by Campbell and was disinherited by his father. On my mother’s side Capt. Billy Bush, my great grandfather, built the first protestant church to be erected west of the Appalachians, the Old Stone Meeting House near Winchester, Ky., which is still in use. One member of this family, E. T. Bush, took a diploma at Bethany but was not converted to the Christian Church until years later. He died an elder in the church in Bowling Green, Ky. in 1900. —Grace C. Dittert, El Campo, Tx. 

Leroy Garrett was there (unity conference, Conway, Ar.) and I really enjoyed getting to know him. The brethren who don’t like him had told us he was really a bad egg, but everything I found him working for here was in line with what the Bible says God wants. The same brethren have also labeled me with some very ugly adjectives, because I accept Bible authority and reject theirs. By the way, if you haven’t read the book, The Stone-Campbell Movement, by Leroy Garrett, make it No. 1 priority to do so right away. —Olan Hicks in News and Notes (Searcy, Arkansas).

I have a lot of back issues of Restoration Review and Bible Talk that I would give to someone. I intend to keep the earliest issues of Bible Talk. - Doy Rhoton, 1357 E. Sherman, Paris, Tx. 75460

(Bible Talk preceded this journal and was published from 1952 to 1958. - Ed.)

As a satirist, I am inclined to re-write Acts 2:38 so as to exclude the divorced from the forgiveness of sins. A Church of Christ preacher in Florida refuses to baptize any divorced person. That is terrible! —Lee Keesling, Arlington, Va.