READER'S EXCHANGE

 

I guess when you and Ouida decide to “Hang it up,” I will have to be content to read back issues and books I have of Carl Ketcherside and Cecil Hook, and maybe I can complete your Stone-Campbell Movement. At my age when I re-read something it seems like new material, as I forget. I am sure your retirement will not be dull. —Alvin C. Keen, Topeka, Ks.

I can’t tell you how much I enjoy Restoration Review. I have been a “free” Christian for about three years. What a blessing! Cecil Hook’s book Free In Christ was the most enlightening thing I had ever read. It was so helpful, and then I was introduced to your publication. I’m so thankful for men like you who persevered until younger people had time to learn of your writings and devotion to God and realize that we weren’t disrespectful radicals, but that learned men of God saw the same kind of God that we see. Not harsh and rigid but loving and patient. I’m so grateful to know God as I do now, and I long to know him more deeply every day and to serve Him as He deserves to be served. —V. Kay Daughtry, Rockford, Il.

I continue to try to learn to be less judgmental without being complacent, as if to believe everything people say. I don’t even believe many of the things I have believed in the past. I hope to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to learn to be comfortable among all those who call themselves Christians. I hope I will always be able to allow Jesus Christ to be the judge. —Frankie Shanks, 2710 Crestwood Dr., Poplar Bluff, Mo. 63901

(This sister issues a neat newsletter from her home and says things that women can probably say better. You might want to write to her and ask to be placed on her mailing list. —Ed.

The people who heard you in India remember you. You gave us new zeal to work for the glory of the Lord. I like your articles very much. I give them to others to read. We are freely giving you Salam, which is an Arabic word meaning greeting. The Hindi word is Namaskar, but people frequently use Salam, especially Christians. May the Grace of the heavenly Father enhance you in the strength of the Lord. —Lawrence Lazarus, Kanpur, India

I am researching a book on early Christianity in Iberia (Hispania). There is much to sift through. I contend that Roman Catholicism became the official religion of Spain/Portugal during the reconquest of the Moors, 711-1492 B.C. That which was planted here earlier was not Roman Catholic and had much to offer in terms of the gospel preached first in Jerusalem and then to the extremities of the Roman Empire —Dick Robison, Carcavelos, Portugal

I talked with Cecil Hook and he told me that at the Church of Christ he attends he is a member of the “helloship.” Isn’t that great? Believe me, the folk at that church have no idea who walks among them. September is a wonderful month. Restoration Review begins again! —Kathy Wyler, Kerrville, Tx.

(When I think of people like Cecil Hook not being appreciated at their own church, I remember a point made by Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher. It is much more important that one deserves to be appreciated than that he is appreciated, he observed. —Ed.)