Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
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Editorial by Erwin L. McDonald, editor of Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, urging readers to pray for the end of the integration tensions. Personally Speaking... Sitting on the Fence SITTING ON the fence used to be an enjoyable way to pass the time back in earlier days when there were rail fences and people who had time to sit. A lot of the world's problems used to be solved back at Bunker Hill, in Pope County, by my Dad and his neigh- bors as they sat on the fence and talked. But sitting on the fence has just about dissapeared as a prac- tice. Even if we had time for it today, it is not easy to sit on a barbed wire fence, an it is especially difficult to sit on a fence that has a charge of electricity running through it. Now when we speak of "sitting on the fence" we use the expression figura- tively. A lot of time we use this ex- pression of someone who for one rea- son or another hesitates to come right out and say he feels just as we do about some issue of the day. Those Arkansas who have been "sit- ting on the fence" on the race issue of integration or segregation are find- ing the fence to be carrying a rather high charge of emotional electricity at the time this is written. Since the race issue is one that finds our Baptist of the state on the fence and on both...
September 12, 1957
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