Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1932 Page: 2 of 8
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_ THE SWEETWATER REPORTER,
“GOLDEN JUBILEE REVIVAL” STARTING TODAY
PAUL PACKARD
. IS EVANGELIST
To Conduct “Jubilee Revival”
His Way—
and Mine
Established “Church. of
the Air” While Pastor
t At Wichita Falls
LONG EXPERIENCE
Is Deeply Spiritual in His
Mesages; City’s Co-
t Operation Asked
Paul Henry Packard, here as the
Evangelist for "Golden Jubilee Re-
vival,” has many friends in this
section. Some four years ago while
pastor of the Highland Heights
Christian Church of Wichita Falls.
Even before cars had ad-
vanced to this stage the
First Christian Church
was performing a great
spiritual service in Sweet-
water. We want to con-
gratulate the First Christ-
ian Church on its fiftieth
birthday anniversary.
And we also want to call
attention to the fact that
we are asking for your
vote and support in the
coming primary election.
H. P. HARKINS
Tax Assessor
PAUL HENRY PACKARD
Texas, he established the "Church ] known a: having the largest men's
of the Air” through radio station: Sunday School class i:i existence,
KGKO. This station at that time j having an enrollment of over 1,000
was owned and operated by his men. The "Packard Meeting in
church of that city. This station Long Beach resulted in some 250
was on the air daily during the J additions to the church. During
the past winter the Evangelist has
noon hour, and Mr. Packard soon
became very popular through his
radio sermons. Many Sweetwater
people will remember this broad-
cast and the great spiritual blessing
received .
Long Experience
Mr. Packard has had a long and
varied experience in the national
By Eugene Rowell
The cross my Savior gave to me
So harsh and hard it seemed,
The twisted trunk of a gnarly tree,
Rough-hewn and heavy-beamed.
And the way that He bade me
follow Him
On a barren hillside lay,
Where the stones were sharp and
the path was dim—
It seemed such a useless way.
So I chose me an easier cross for
mine,
And a way at my own sweet will
Through a valley fair in the
morning shine,
A road with never a hill.
been holding revivals principally in
the Southern States, one of his
greatest meetings being with the
First Christian Church of Atlanta,
Georgia.
Mr. Packard is at all times in-
tensely evangelistic in his preach-
meTtfngf tor some of ^the"6 largest' mge*"'He^speciahzes in city wide i der the Laura Spellman Rocke-
ssrJryEi
Lvivoi for the F r t Christian: the other churches of this city in'data on the great plains of the
revival for the Flrst c°{™anl this revival. He will be assisted in Southwest; another on the ad-j
! the revival by the regular pastor, I ministration of justice as among
I kept the way of my heart's
accord
Through pleasant vale and town,
And I kept my cross—but I lost
my Lord;
And the fearful night came down.
He found me there in the night
alone,
Storm-beaten and all dismayed.
Till my hand clung close to His
loving own,
Untroubled and unafraid.
And now the cross that He gave
is light,
The way that He leads is best ;
For all day long and at weary night
I share them with Him, and rest.
12 Science Investigation!
AUSTIN UJ.R)—1Twelve social sci-
ence investigations by Unive-sity
of Texas professors, working un-
Ohioan Is New
Pythian Head
Church of Long Beach,
of which George P. Taubamn is pas
tSTChurch is universally who will have charge of the singing lace duss and sex and another on
and personal work
10 ENROLL AS
the functions of appellate courts.
Standards of living in Texas so-
cial attitudes, urbanization in Tex-1
as public utilities in Texas and
water division on the Texas-Mex-
iro boundary are among other
survey topics.
Freak Is Household Pet
FORT WORTH. (U.R)—A one-leg-
ged chicken on the J. L. Brumbaugh 1
farm here is not menaced by the j
frying pan. The chicken, born with-
out even the trace of a second leg. j
has been adopted as the household
pet.
!
WHEN OXEN PULLED WAGONS INTO WEST
TEXAS......IT WAS LUMBER CONSIGNED TO
BURTON-LINGO......TO BUILD WEST TEXAS
HOMES
Even before the First Christian Church of Sweet-
water began its great work in Sweetwater... .the
firm of Burton-Lingo was selling lumber to help
build an empire that today is West Texas.
Trials of the pioneer, therefore, are well known to
Burton-Lingo, and it is with this feeling of sincerity
that praise is extended the First Christian Church
on its Fiftieth Birthday—a half century of service
in the upbuilding of Sweetwater and West Texas.
Honor to whom honor is due! i ■ . .......
Buirton-lingo Co.
SWEETWATER ' f
I Mrs. J. F. Eidson One of
the Faithful Buiul Which
Organized Cliureh
| "There was just a little tjand of
twenty of us that organized the
First Christian Church," Mrs. J. F.
Eidson, 609 Lamar Street, said,
“and many of those have moved
away now or have died.”
Mr. and Mrs. Eidson came here
in 1881 from Brownwood. Before. carcass while looking for cattle,
ithat they had lived in Denton, The points on the antlers range
and before coming to Texas, they! from one-half inch to 10 inches,
were Missouri residents.
Mrs. Eidson said that her hus-
band used to teach Sunday School
in the First Christian Church in
Missouri, and that he was an ac-
tive member in the local church.
He has been dead about 19 years,
she said.
Of the early church memuers.
Mrs. Eidson remembers Mrs. Tom
1 Douthitt, mother of Mrs. R C.
I Crane, ’perhaps best. Mrs. Eidson
said that Mrs. Douthitt was one of
| the hardest workers she had ever
j known, and that she did a lot to
I make the Christian Church what
it is.
Mrs. Eidson worked with the first
Ladies Aid of the church and re-
called many pleasant meetings of
that organization.
__________j James Dunn, Jr., of Cleveland,
Deer’s Antlers Have 120 Points : ^ above, is the new supreme chan-
j
COLUSA, Cal., <U.R>—Jim "Coy- i cenor cf the Knights of Pythias. He
ote” Smith, local cattleman, has
found a deer's antlers containing
120 points. Smith found the deer's
wa selected to the order's highest
office at the biennial convention of
the supreme lodge in Kansas City,
Mo.
Odd Roles on Words
LONDON. (U.R.)—An enterprising
I'.VeStigHtor has just discj"ered ‘
that the Postoffice Department
here will let you send a telegram
calling a man a "chump” rr a
"blockhead,” but It is against the
rules to call him a "fathead." In
jour telegram they will ccunt
fctratto'rd-on-Avon as one word,
but Stratford-by-Bow as three. Al-
so for some unknown reason, “up-
stairs' 'is one word, but "down
.stairs' 'IS two.
One Pioneer
to Another!
As the outgrowth of Texas’ first oil company. Mag-
nolia Petroleum Company feels a perfect right in
congratulating the First Christian Church of
Sweetwater ... as one pioneer to another.
Humbly, this mighty Texas business concern ac-
knowledges its respect to the Church, without
which there could not exist such a nation today as
our own—or $pch a world. Sweetwater owes a debt
of gratitude to the First Christian Church.
‘ A, GLENN
Sweetwater Agent, Magnolia Products
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1932, newspaper, August 14, 1932; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth559453/m1/2/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.