John R. Rice Family on YouTube

My brother, ex-Maoist and currently a rich philanthropist and movie producer, but the erstwhile black sheep of the family :smilewinkgrin: , has put a couple of films on YouTube of some of the Rice family music. Here is my mother and five aunts, the six daughters of John R. Rice, singing his most blessed song, "So Little Time". My mom is third from the left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzUBhAcZ9MY

This looks like it was at a National Conference on Soul-Winning and Revival in the mid 1970's, maybe at Cobo Hall in Detroit.

You can also see a clip of my brother, two sisters and me when we were little singing "This Little Light of Mine" in the 1955 John R. Rice evangelistic film, "Bringing In the Sheaves." I'm the littlest guy, and had a couple of other scenes. Yep, John of Japan was a child star. :smilewinkgrin:

 

God bless you yourself for your work as a missionary in Ireland. One drawback about being a missionary is that unless furloughs coincide, we rarely get to see each other! We'll just have to fellowship that much more in Heaven.

 

Thanks for the prayers!

 

Thanks, Sister Gwen! :wavey:

 

Well, the wattage is a little low, but....:laugh:

 

You are entirely welcome. :wavey:

 

I'm pretty sure I have that one somewhere. I'll have to go back and re-read it. Dr. Rice used to have cooperative evangelistic meetings that included everyone in town who took a stand and wanted to see souls saved, including other denominations. I remember he would tell the tongues speakers, "I won't push baptism and you don't talk about tongues. Let's just get people saved."

Edited in: I do have to say, though, that pamphlet was written before the Charismatic movement and all its excesses. Dr. Rice was talking about the old line Pentecostal churches, many of which were solidly fundamental and evangelistic. He later wrote a book opposing the Charismatic movement, and of course before that he had a book out on tongues. :type:

 

Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzUBhAcZ9MY

 

You're bringing back a lot of memories. He would do just like you said. He has asked me for advice and give me the feeling inside, "Huh? I'm absolutely not qualified for this." But he had a way of making you know he really cared about what you thought about God's work.

The "opera guy" would probably have been Ray Hart. What a voice!

Did you ever get to check out the museum at the BRR, which used to be Dr. Rice's house? I spent many happy hours there. For a year or so I lived in his workshed which was just outside the house, and had devotions, ate meals, played "42" dominoes with Granddad and Grandma.

 

Glad you enjoyed it! :wavey: