Acknowledgements

Dedicated to Gaines S. Dobbins

REAL APPRECIATION is due many persons for the inspiration necessary for me to have written these pages. Simon Doniger, editor of Pastoral Psychology, first suggested the motif of these sermons. He generously published several of them periodically in the pages of his journal. Dr. Roland W. Tapp has carefully evaluated these materials and given helpful editorial assistance. The congregation of the First Baptist Church, Lumberton, North Carolina, listened to many of these sermons as I preached them during a spiritual life commitment week in 1957. They heard me gladly and caused me to feel that the sermons in written form would have increasing usefulness to lay people. Students in chapel services at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary in New York joined minds with me as I preached others of the sermons. My family has listened to some of them more than once and always acted as though they were new each time.

A special debt of gratitude is due Mrs. Joe Baskin, Miss Belva Boston, and Miss Joyce Cherry for their efficient service in typing this manuscript.

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