READERS' EXCHANGE

 

I am graduating from Johnson Bible College and will soon be moving to Florida. One of the things I will miss at JBC are the classes of Stan McDaniel. He is an excellent teacher and I have learned much from him. He has introduced many students to you and the Restoration Review. —Steve Merritt, Knoxville, TN.

I recently came across a card you sent me back in 1976, and if you are still publishing Restoration Review I want back on the mailing list. I retired in 1978 and am now stone deaf without a hearing aid, and even with a hearing aid I understand only a few words due to noises. I want to know if there is a hearing aid that overcomes word deafness. If you will mention this in your paper, some of your readers might help me. I live in southern Illinois, a coal mining region. You once visited with brother Sims in Royalton, only ten miles from my home. I still keep in touch with Carl Ketcherside and have many of his books, and I prize the books of the late William Barclay of Scotland, whom you once visited. My folks came from the central part of England, called the Midlands, just north of Birmingham, but in the shire of Staffordshire. Give my kindness regards to Ouida, whom you once referred to as “the cat’s meow.” —Rowland Ward, 701 S. Victor St., Christopher, IL 62822.

I’m looking forward to the next hard bound edition of Restoration Review. I stopped the monthly issues, but still get out my hardbound volumes and review them on occasion. You may find it curious that a “Pentecostal” would enjoy your magazine, but I am dedicated to the unity of the Body and consider it a joy to have served a branch of His “Restoration” Body. —Timothy B. Cremeens, First Assembly of God, 47 Old Park Lane Rd., New Milford, Ct. 06776.

The Lord bless you for thinking of us and taking the time to spend with us. Please greet the brethren for us wherever you go. We love them. —Bob Cannon, Bethel Church (Assembly of God), Eureka, Ca. 95501 (formerly with Churches of Christ).

I have read your The Stone-Campbell Movement a second time. I am convinced it will withstand its attackers, whose criticisms I regard as nitpicking. —Charles Turner, Houston, TX.

The more things change the more they remain the same. Your article “On Being Locked Up Together” (Feb. issue) took me back to Henderson, Tn. and your visit to Freed-Hardeman College. I was a student and we spoke together at that time. I was more interested in whether they would allow you to speak than in what you had to say. I was sure I saw the faint impression of the outline of growth forms along your hairline above the ears! Maybe we can meet again and I can check the growth of those appendages! Send me a copy of The Stone-Campbell Movement, which I will present to Mary on our 26th wedding anniversary. —Wayne Weaver, Laramie, WY.

(Anyone who can write “The more things change the more they remain the same” while celebrating his 26th wedding anniversary is a confirmed optimist. We will not have to worry about him, even on his visits to his alma mater! But I am not sure that I should have my head examined, for if things do not change they do grow, including horns! —Ed.)