IS THERE PIONEERBLOD INYOURVEINS? If you respond to adventure in stories of the frontier days — if you sometimes feel a strange kinship with the men and women who conquered the Old West—then you have pioneer blood in your veins. Pioneering days are not over. Today in out-of-the-way rural communities American Sun day-School Union missionaries are pioneering in Gospel work — starting Sunday schools in isolated communities like those below.
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A monthly column of names in the news. On a warm evening in Clanton, Ala., this summer death came to two members of the famed gospel sing ing Blackwood Brothers quartet. The quartet had just flown to Clanton in their private twin-engined plane and after unloading, 32-year-old baritone R. W. Blackwood and 33-year-old bass Bill Lyles took the plane up again to test the short runway. The takeoff was successful but when Blackwood brought the plane in for the landing it crashed and burned. More than 4,000 persons attended their funeral in Memphis. In Boston, Dr. Harold J. Ockenga (rhymes with gay) has announced he will resign as pastor of the his toric Park S treet Congregational Church on December 31. Dr. Ock enga is leaving his pastorate to be come full-time president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. When he became affiliated with the Park Street church in 1932, it had two missionaries. Now it has more than 200 with an annual mis sionary budget of $214,000. sion in 1701, based on the chrono logical scheme of James Ussher, Irish archbishop. W hile his was a useful contribution, it is both inaccurate and obsolete. An excellen t source of information on chronology is “A Dic tionary of the Bible,” by John D. Davis ( third edition). This scholar ly and theologically conservative ref erence book points out that in He brew genealogies, each member is said to have begotten his successor, although the latter may be a grand son or even a more remote descend ant. In the royal' genealogy given in Matthew, the three kings, Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah are passed over and Joram is said to have begotten TJzziah, his great-great-grandson. Oft en only prominent members of the line are enumerated, or else, as an aid to memory, a definite number is chosen—as in Matthew with groups of tw ice seven and in Genesis with groups of 10. Since life was much longer in those days and since many generations could easily have been unmentioned, there is ample scope for the theory of man being on earth for some 15,000 years.- — ED. READER REACTION from page 6
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