READER'S EXCHANGE

 

I was honored that an article of mine was published in Christian Standard, especially with an article by you in the same edition! They put me in good company. I read a lot of material and I know of few, if any. publications that maintain the consistent high quality of Restoration Review . — Charles Turner, Friendswood, Tx. 

(Writing for and with others is delightful and meaningful fellowship. I was pleased to write for the last issue of Mission, then in Christian Standard and One Body, journals related to Christian Churches, and I will soon have an essay on "Alexander Campbell: Tragedy and Triumph" in The Disciple, an official publication of Disciples of Christ. You would do well to read any or all of these papers. Addresses are: Christian Standard, 1821 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, Oh. 45231 ($14.75 per annum); One Body, 1111 N. Main, Joplin, Mo. 64801 (free on request); The Disciple, Box 179, St. Louis, Mo. 63166 ($10.00 per annum).— Ed.) 

I really like your series on your visitation to various Denton churches. I never attended a church service I didn't find something of interest or inspiration, whether at a high church Episcopalian or a small Pentecostal group in a clapboard building on the other side of the tracks. I pity those who Christianity is limited to their own little group . — Chaplain T. F. McNabb, Brown Mills, N.J. 

I don't know how  I started receiving the magazine, but I suppose some unknown person sent it to me. I tossed many of the first issues. assuming it to be another sectarian organ of the Church of Christ denomination. Fortunately, I decided to quit being judgmental and read an issue. I was delighted and encouraged to find a paper that believes in the grace of God and the fellowship of believers. Enclosed is my renewal.—Texas 

(We get numerous responses like this from those who were sent the paper by someone else. This might encourage you to send in that club of four or mere. You can always think of that many people who might respond as this man did. - Ed.) 

Many in our brotherhood have lost sight of the Restoration Plea. Instead opinions have become tests of orthodoxy and we've grown content to perpetuate our own spiritual species without the liberty that Christ has given to us. Your publication is a breath of fresh air. Your The Stone-Campbell Movement inflamed me with a desire to be as seeker of God's truth no matter where that truth may lead. — Randall Massie, Jacksonville, IL. 

Please don't retire. Our people need your teaching. — Helen P. Murray, Murfreesboro, Tn. 

We saw and heard many Communist authorities in the Slavic world not only tolerate, but ask and encourage Christians to minister to social needs, especially with the growing problem of drug addiction and alcohol abuse. — Steve Bilak, Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Is "restoration of the primitive church" an opinion? If not, where does the New Testament say that "the primitive church" must be maintained or restored? — Rev. Dr. Hugh W. Weston, Palm Desert, Ca. 

 (I wrote this revered doctor that it is an opinion, and not a very defensible one at that. Those who read my history book will see that by and large the Stone-Campbell movement was a unity movement more than it was a restoration movement as understood in the above question. — Ed.)