Pennsylvania is a great and needy field. Its 1960 population was 11,319,366, the third largest of the states. Seventy-one per cent of the population is classed as urban, and over 200 cities with a population greater than 5,000 are without churches of Christ. A list of churches was prepared in 1959 giving 73 churches in the state. This list included groups ranging from the anti-class, one cup, and anti-located preacher to the most liberal of liberals. Some churches on that list do not now meet, but a few others have started.

At present two men are seeking support to work with small, sound churches in Pennsylvania. John Humphries of Annapolis, Md., is seeking support to work with the church in Harrisburg, the capital city. This writer seeks assistance to work in Shippensburg. You can help in evangelizing the "Keystone state" by helping these men. Yet when these two cities have strong churches, there will remain vast areas of the state in spiritual darkness.

There are still many "pockets of poverty," spiritually speaking, in our country. The Northeast is virtually untouched with the gospel. Here is manifested on the domestic scene a mistake we so often make on the foreign. We send a man or two to struggle a few years to establish a small congregation in a certain neglected area. Then we pat ourselves on the back by believing that we have evangelized that place. We deceive ourselves when we think that two men working for two years can truly evangelize a city like Lagos, Nigeria, or Philadelphia, Pa. We cannot smugly feel we have fulfilled the commission when we have helped briefly in such work. We have merely started.

WORLD'S FAIR EVANGELISM

The Queens Church of Christ of Flushing, New York is sponsoring a $400,000.00 exhibition in the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Among exhibits will be an electronic brain computer. Visitors can choose a question, push a button and get a Bible answer! I wonder if I could get a Bible answer to the following question: Where is the authority for sponsoring church arrangements? Where does the Bible authorize many churches sending funds to one church for a work larger than the receiving church's local needs? Perhaps the machine can do a better job than liberal brethren have in producing book, chapter, and verse for the sponsoring church arrangements.

--Win. E. Wallace

QUOTABLE

The mark of true maturity: Keep on growing at "ages when many men's character and opinions freeze into rigidity." . . . Some brethren have reputations for veracity and accuracy that assay amazingly low… Isn't it strange and upsetting that aggressive individuals seem to relish spiteful and provocative approaches before those who differ with them? …When the last spurt of blood has been pumped through your heart; when your lungs have expelled their last breath of air; when your organs no longer emit life sustaining force and your brain no longer thinks, your soul stands naked in view of a judgment as to whether it is fitted for the incorruptible body, the building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Truth Magazine VIII: 10, p. 1 July 1964