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Staff:

Byron Nichols Jerry Bates Louis Rushmore Layout Editors: Betty Burton Choate Bonnie Rushmore Typesetting: Gay Nichols Computer Consultant: Bradley S. Choate Editor: Associate Editors:

Spanish Edition:

Managing Editor: Rafael Barrantes

Telugu Edition:

Managing Editor, Translator:

Joshua Gootam

Tamil Edition: Managing Editor, Translators:

Benny Martin, S. Rajanayagam

English Edition in India and Braille Edition:

Managing Editors, Philemon Rajah

and Kingsly Rajah

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Managing Editor, Earnest Gill

Paite Edition

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father Davidâ&#x20AC;? /XNH

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Do you allow your wife an appropriate amount of the family income to spend as she chooses, without accounting?

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Are you cooperative in handling the children, taking your full share of responsibility and also backing her up?

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Do you make it a point never to criticize her before others?

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Do you share much of your recreation hours with her?

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Do you show interest in and encourage her to develop intellectually?

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Do you enter sympathetically into her plans for social activities, trying to do your full share as a host in your own home, and when you are a guest in the homes of others, trying to make her appear to the best possible advantage?

8. Do you make an effort to understand the peculiarities of feminine psychology and to help her through varying moods?

9. Do you tell her that you love her and act as if you mean it?

10. Do you give spiritual leadership to your family?

11. Do you encourage your wife to talk things out? =

Perspective Twenty years ago we dreamed a house.

Years of talking, Planning, Months of sweat and toil Transformed the dream To full reality With walls and windows, floors and doors.

OUR house...

But we freely loaned our house to God. For all those years, the joy of ownership was sweet.

Then the horror: Fire! Fire!

Flames, leaping, licking, crackling Engulfed our house

Our things, Our lives — A monster of a size no one could stop: All — all we’d loved of things, all we’d known and owned — Were OURS no more; Stark fear and panic filled my heart And then, at last, acceptance: The raging fire had burned my world away And in that aweful hour of severance and defeat I let it go.

Now, how strange the feeling in my heart As I paint and varnish, Make decisions, measure cuts And work, Raising up replacement walls on the funeral pyre Of the house that once was OURS, I am thinking always That this tool is being readied As equipment in God’s hands; THESE walls — THIS lamp — THESE chairs Are HIS; But, for some little frame of time He’s lending them to us As stewards, To tend and use for Him.

I own nothing any more And not a thing owns me....

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As a team of co-workers we call ourselves “World Evangelism”....

Ricky Gootam

Vernon Douglas

In Volume 81 of The Voice of Truth International, we featured pictures of American partners of “World Evangelism”, doing some of the physical work in the production and distribution of literature. We realize that we would be very limited in what we could do if we did not have co-workers overseas who are “boots on the ground” to do the preaching [radio, TV, and congregational], writing [The Voice of Truth International in local languages, monthly magazines, tracts, Bible courses, and study books], and follow-up work [home studies, Gospel meetings, and lectureships] to bring Thang Lien new souls into the Kingdom, and to continually strengthen the church as a whole. This issue is a partial coverage, particularly of our brethren in India with whom we have worked for decades. The front cover pictures the original generation with whom we have worked, in some cases, since 1968. The back cover shows the younger generation that is now shouldering some of these responsibilities.

Vinay David Of course, through literature and other mass media tools, we also work with brethren in the Philippines, Viet Nam, China, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Guyana, and John Dean many other countries.

Bennie Martin

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