Author : Randolph Clark
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis Reminiscences by : Randolph Clark
Download or read book Reminiscences written by Randolph Clark and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences Biographical and Historical Friends have requested a number of items connected with the early history of the Disciples in Texas and with AddRan College and its founders. Soon after brother's death a number called for his biography, which would have been written by one more competent, but, for kindly considerations, the task was left for me; that is why it was never done. I thought to furnish a series of sketches that would partially answer all these demands. I decided that a few months would give sufficient time in which to compile material that would furnish some future historian, who had more time and means than I have, the data for a more exacting history; but the months passed into years and the work not done. I find that the man who preaches eight sermons a month, answers frequent long distance calls to funerals, weddings, school addresses, and reunion occasions, and adds to this list one or two protracted meetings in the summer, and, with all, has acquired the orchard, garden and chore-boy habit, has little time for writing books. The preacher cannot afford to go before his audience with warmed over sermons, that he prepared long ago when he knew everything. The shepherd must not lead his flock to stagnant waters. He may have a mind well stored with knowledge, but he will have to study to know how to apply to the present world conditions what he has learned. And he will be surprised to find out how imperfectly he has learned things he thought he knew well.