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Prayer at Mid-Week
Like an oasis in the desert, the Midweek prayer hour comes to refre, h the spiritual life of -our church membership. Prayer meeting haS, taken on new color and life in recent weeks as more of our people have b e e n participating. This week the honor guests at prayer meeting will be the Alathean Class of the Sunday School. They will bring a special feature and sponsor the attendance. Won’t you include prayer meeting on your weekly calendar of activities?
Sunday School Conference
The monthly Sunday School supper and conference provideS, a workshop for planning and promoting more effective Sunday School achievement. It is highly important that every otficer and teacher be present this Wednesday at 6:00 P. M. This will be our last con:erence
before the spring revival. Extensive plans for our revival effort will be outlined -and presented on Wednesday evening. We are counting on you, your presence, your cooperation, and your cheerful response to the call of Christ.
Associational Call - Session Today
Campbell County Missionary Baptist Association meets today at the Ford- town Baptist Church at 2:30 P. M. for the purpose of conSideration of extending a call to Rev. John Brown of Cookeville, Tennessee, to become our associational missionary. We trust that several will attend this special session as personal representatives of the First Baptist Church. This is a vitally important meeting of the Aociation. Rev.
W. H. Lamb will bring a special mes- sage at this time.
Baptist and Reflector Subscribers
Our deep sympathy is etended to Mr.. Marion Shelby, Mr. Roma Shelby, and Mrs Ed Blankenshio in the death of their half—sister. Mrs. Staley Miller. Also to Mrs. George Nugent in the death of her half-sister Virginia White, of Chattanooea. May tne grace of God be found sufficient in th& )our &f grief.
The Lord’s Treasury,
The Lord’s work through His church can progress no farther than the volunta-y contributions of love from His children. Your church moves forward piritually when you express your love for Christ through your &mtributions and tithes. The happiest ChristianS of our church are the tithing Christians.
Remember: God’s work in First Bkptist Church, LaFo1lette, waits on you.
Record
Total Sunday Schooi Attendance 370
Main School 312
Mission 58
Total Training Union Attendance 123 Main B. T. U. - 93 Mission B. T. U. 30
West Beech Offering - 12.21
Main Church Offering 275.’63
Total Budget Offering 287.84
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK
Sunday February 25—
9:30-West Beech Sunday School
9:45-First Baptist Sunday School
6:00-Training Union
8:00-VeSper Choir Rehearsal
Monday February 26—
7:00-W. M. U. Home MisSions Study
d1jr 1Mranrnjir FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
A. Douglas Aldrich, Pastor LAFOLLETTE. TENNESSEE
RESIDENCE 125 PHONES CHURCH OFFICE 70 -
MRS. EUGENE HUFF. CHURCH SECRETARY
JOHN BOLLINGER. DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
MRS. HOWARD CLAIBORNE. ORGANIST
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Tuesday February 27—
7:00-West Beech Prayer Service
7:30-Alathean Class Meeting
Wednesday February 28—
6:00-Sunday School Officers and
Teachers Supper an’d Conference
7:00-Prayer Service
Friday March 2—
.3:30-Jr. G. A. Meeting
3:30-Sunbeam Meeting
7:00-West Beech Training Union
Saturday, March 3— Two Baptist and Reflector clubs have
8:00-Adult Choir Rehearsal been organized in our church. These
clubs are for the purpose of securing
The Seventy Volunteers subscriptions to our state Baptist paper
In preparation for the spring simul- at a reduced rate of $1.50 per year. If taneous evangelistic crusade we a r e you wou1d like to secure your state looking for seventy volunteers out of Baptist paper please see your pastor at our church membership who will de- once. Those who have already signed vote themselves to four weeks of in- up. for your subscription will please tensive personal visitation evangelism, give your money to Mrs. Huff the When - Jesus Would prepare-- the people , church secretary at once. - -
to receive Him and His salvation He
sent forth seventy appointed persons Sympathy
who should prepare the way. If souls are
be won to Christ in our forth-coming
revival, then their hearts must be made
ready by the personal work of His
disciples. We want you to join us in
the thrilling experience of personally
telling others about JesuS. Come to the
prayer meeting hour to hear more of
the church-wide plans for evangelistIc
visitation.
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“PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. LAFOLLETTE. TENNESSEE.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 25 CENTS PER YEAR. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER
JUNE 6. 1946 AT THE POST OFFICE. LAFOLLETTE. TENNESSEE UNDER ACT OF
MARCH 3. 1879.”
VOL. IV. - SUN Y, FEBRUARYJkS, 1951 - N@. 37
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9:30-CARfLLONIC BELLS Betty Shelby
9:45-SUNDAY SCHOOL Pa’ul Miller, Superintendent
10:50-MORNING WORSHIP
Organ Prelude - . -
Doxology - - I - - -
Invocation Pastor
Hymn No. 236-”Lead On, 0 I’ing Eternal” ._ Smart
Scripture Gloria Patri -
Prayer and Response
Announcements
Hymn No. 153-”Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone?” __Mlen
Offertory Prayer - -
Offertory . - , -
Anthem-”I Would Be True” _ Berge
Adult Choir - -
Message - “Life That Shall Endless Be” ,
Hymn No. 254-”Have Thine Own Way, Lord” -
Benediction - . - —
Response-”Sevenfold Amen” ,.._Stainer
6:00-TRAINING UNION . - -
7:00-EVENING WORSHIP
Call To Worship-”Holy, Holy, Holy” -
Song and Praise Service -- / *
Pastoral Prayer and Prayer Response -
- Announcements
Hymn No. 249-”On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” McIntosh
Offertory Prayer
Offertory -
Anth-ei-”In Shadow, In Sunshine” Holton
Vesper Choir
Message-”Man’s Blundering Quest for God” Pastor
Hymn No. 99-”Wherever He Leads I’ll Go” -- .JMcKinney
Benediction and Benediction Response


.Sen fence ..Sermoni
To win a soul is better than to make a louchdown in 5oball, or to earn a millioU dollars in the marts of the world, or •to discover a new continent, or o conquer a nation, or rule an empire.
If we have an attack of real religion it will be contagious.
The depth of our Christian experience can be measured by the radius of our love.
“I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth (absentee who returneth), more tlian ovei ninety- and nine just persons, which need no repentance (which attend regularly)” (Luke l5:7).
Between the great things we can’t do and the little things we won’t do, the danger is we shall do nothing at all.
A deacon who will not tithe does
not have any more business of being
a deacon than a monkey has with
a match in a powder keg.—Robert
G.Lee
Every man needs to inspect his convictions from time to time lest they degenerate into mere prejudices.
Some of us are able to stand up against the great temptations, but we go down under the annoyance of numerous temptations.
Too many of us are willing to be used of the Lord provided we are used in an advisory capacity only.
Anyone can praise Christ, but it takes a real Christian to follow him.
The pay envelope falls far short of explaining why the captain goes down with his ship, why the nurse faces death with her patient, why the coal-miner risks his life in gas and under a treacherous roof.
he LiHie
eounrq ehurch
I love the little country church That calls us from a world of
strife,
To have respect unto God’s ways, And covet everlasting life.
I love the little country church Where faithful souls unite in prayer;
My thoughts go back across the years—
I found the blessed Saviour there.
I love the little country church Where people still take time to
live;
To meditate upon the Word, And to the Lord due reverence
give.
I love the little country church, Where truth is sought on bendeci
knee;
And trustful hearts rejoice in hope, Where love abounds and men are
free.
I love the little country church Where Christ is still upon the
throne;
Let’s keep her altar fires ablaze ‘Til he returns to claim his own.
—C. D. Nurrss
I Am a Baptist
Baptists believe that there are great basic principles underlying New Testament truths. These may be stated in the form of axiom as follows:
1. The theological axiom: The holy and loving God has a right to be sovereign.
2. The religious axiom: All souls are equally entitled to direct access to God.
3. The ecclesiastical axiom: All believers are entitled to equal privileges in the church.
4. The’ mbral axiom: To be responsible the soul must be free.
5. The religio-civic axiom: A free church in a free state.
6. The social axiom: Love your neighbors as yourself.
7. The civic axiom: The sovereignty of the state resides in the citizen.
These axioms may be reduced to one great universal principle, which expresses the historical attitude of Baptists: the competency of. the souV in religion under God. Baptists oppose all systems which concentrate responsibility in the hnds of any class or group, whether they be priests, bishops, or other ecciesiastical officials.
These principles are atthefoundati ti of the whole Baptist conception of’Christianity.
—E. Y. MULLINS
Detached Baptists
Many people with saved souls are losing their lives! And nothing promotes this condition more than nonresident church members.
When we approach such Ciwis— tians, they are usually ready, to give some old objection, such as:
1. “The old church is. weak, and needs me to keep it alive.” But God did not make you to keep’ churches alive—he made churches to keep you, alive.
2. “I ani not sure how long I will be here.” No one is sure how long he will be living.
3. “My peopl are all members there.” But if you can stand to sever your physical relations with theni for material comforts, surely you can afford to break this sentimental tie for, your soul’s welfare.
.4 “My parents are buried there.” But this is only a sentiment common to human nature. It would nake your blessed dead’ doubly dead to know that you are robbing your- sell of a robust and progressive hristian lif for such a sickly sentiment.
5. “I can do just as much good out of the church ‘as I could if I were in it.” But, if this is true then Christ made a mistake when he established the church. And it is not my duty to defend his mistakes. You are matching your judgment against his.
—Eieg Glloay
South Korean children shield their ears and mothers protect babies as they watch U. S. howitzers blast enemy positions. Will Southern Baptists send relief and missionaries?
—4s,ockted Press Newsplioto.
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