The Word of the Cross

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Edited by: Hunter Beattie

Published by\in: Glasgow

Volumes:

19 - ?

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Comments:

Tom said ...

Don't know much about this or the author .. maybe they were published during the First World War.

Hunter Beattie seems to have been most well known for Beattie strongly advocating total conscientious objection,

Friday, Aug 17, 2018 : 15:37

Martin Arhelger said ...

Hunter Beattie lived from 1875 to 1951.
I have a copy of his "The Word of the Cross" No. 20; on page 128 there is a reference to a text in "The Witness" of Dec. 1946 which was replied in "The Word of the Cross" No. 17. So I would guess that No. 17 of "The Word of the Cross" was printed in 1947.
T. Grass says: "Bitter controversy over pacifism beset Open Brethren in Glasgow, where the evangelist Hunter Beattie became an ardent pacifist campaigner, issuing an occasional publication, The Word of the Cross, from October 1915, after local leaders had failed to give clear guidance to believers concerning the right course of action in time of war. After handing out copies of the first number at a conference, he claimed that he was threatened with arrest by leading men." (Gathering to His Name, p. 329)
Perhaps the magazine was issued irregularly.
Martin

Sunday, Aug 19, 2018 : 17:55

Neil Dickson said ...

For a full account of The Word of the Cross and Hunter Beattie, see: Neil Dickson, 'Hunter Beattie (1876–1951): A Conscientious Objector at the Margins', Scottish Church History 50.2 (2021): 145–163
DOI: 10.3366/sch.2021.0053.

Monday, Nov 29, 2021 : 19:33

Marty said ...

THE WORD OF THE CROSS. by Hunter Beattie.
# 1 - Gethsemane and the Tears of Jesus. 38p.
# 2 - Jesus—The Divider. 24p.
# 3 - Jesus—The Exemplar. 24p.
# 4 - The Christian and War. 38p. Book 150 p.
# 19 - Jesus—The Beloved. 24p.

THE first number of THE WORD OF THE CROSS was published in October 1915. l had waited month after month in the hope that some of our leading teachers would speak plainly the path for the Saint during the great war which began in 1914. The regular magazines which professed to stand for the Faith, were all in a condition of hesitancy. Of indirect and veiled teaching, there was some, but not a word of plain direction, in words “easy to be understood."
The burden became oppressive and finally in the Name and in the Strength of the Lord, I was enabled to put pen to paper and the first message was written. The first copies were handed to Believers at a Conference held in the Christian Institute, Glasgow. While doing so, one of the brethren who takes a lead in one of the Glasgow Assemblies, assailed me abusively and threatened to have me arrested. This was strange, for THE WORD OF THE CROSS contained nothing but "the things most surely believed among us." It exposed, however, the falling away and the decay that had been surely sapping the vitality of the Assemblies that at one time stood as Churches of God.
The second issue came in December 1915, and its message was widely received— although the elements among Brethren who were anxious that the Assemblies should have "a place in the sun" were sorely displeased. They have forgotten that the Church of God has no place in the Sun nor under the Sun—but ABOVE THE SUN" in the Heavenlies, in Christ Jesus." In February 1916, number three saw the light and its timely message brought many letters of thankfulness to God from saints who were helped in a critical moment.
Thereafter, THE WORD OF THE CROSS appeared as the Lord gave the message and opened the way for its issue.
“The Christian and War” (Book)

Friday, Apr 12, 2024 : 06:17