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Rhetorician · Nov 4, 2015

JoJ,

I would like to have an autographed copy when it is done, OK?

rd

John of Japan · Nov 4, 2015

Rhetorician said: ↑

JoJ,

I would like to have an autographed copy when it is done, OK?

rd
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Sure enough brother. However, with my autograph the value as a collector's item might decrease.

wpe3bql · Nov 4, 2015

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Sure enough brother. However, with my autograph the value as a collector's item might decrease.
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John of Japan · Nov 5, 2015

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Bro. JofJ,

Yesterday (11/02/2015) I spent some time (& over $400) at this place at 214 Bridge Avenue....Ever hear of that one? It's in the 'Boro, right across from that big school building.

I was there for several reasons:

1) To get a sub of this paper called "Sword of the Lord." I can't say that I'm 110+% in agreement with absolutely everything that's declared upon its pages, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying reading it.
(NOTE: I also subscribe to what could be called the antithesis of "The Sword of the Lord," namely "The Berea Baptist Banner" (UPS 546-470) that's published in Mantachie, MS.)

2) To purchase 6 sets of the two-volume BJU Press's This Day in Baptist History. I'm a history buff (MA in History from APSU in 1981), and firmly believe that many "average" Baptists have little/no idea of the price our spiritual forefathers paid to bequeath the heritage to us today.
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Those are great books. There are now a third and fourth volume, not published by the BJU Press. Dr. Cummins was a great church historian. At our college we have the "Cummins Cafe," with quotes from him on the wall and a quiz on Baptist history at every table.

3) To purchase some CDs by Ray Hart. I was "volunteered" to be the one to keep the stats for him back in the late 1970s-early 1980s at a TACS Regional Acad. & Fine Arts comp. where he was evaluating the solo vocalists at FRBC's FRCS. He had to wear crutches due to some injuries he'd suffered....Don't remember the details. I was about to give him some pointers on how he could improve his own vocal performances, but he said something to the effect that he all the sudden felt "called of the Lord" to "fellowship with some other 'Dear Brother 'I hadn't seen in a while.'" Oh well, it's like the Nashville Symphony Orchestra's Chorus master. He said he'd get back to me after he heard me sing the opening solo to Handel's Messiah, "Comfort Ye." He knows that we've only got just a couple weeks until the live performances start!!! Redface
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Ray Hart was such a great singer. What a voice God gave him!

Of course, I then proceeded to cross over the I-24 bridge & eat at the Waffle House near where John R. Rice Blvd. is. The Waffle House isn't exactly the same as Music City's Lowe's Vanderbilt Plaza's first floor Restaurant, but at least it's there in the Boro. [NOTE: If Waffle House would only buy into my very special brand of coffee---"Mechanic's Coffee Coffee" {"An exclusive blend of bearing grease and 'Liquid Wrench' that's (a) filtered though months'-old, non-laundered grease pit work socks, and (b) stirred with a rusty old tire iron, and (c) served in used 10W5 oil cans,--- I truly believe they'd draw more "something or other" than they do now. But YAW no that's jest prob-blee ain't gonna happen reel soon.]

Can YAW smell that thar "Mechanic's Coffee Coffee" that Ima a-brewing in your part? Frown
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Granddad's house, now at the Bill Rice Ranch, was right by the road on Franklin Rd., and I lived there with him for awhile. John R. Rice Blvd. goes right through where the barn was where he kept his beloved Tennessee Walker and his other horses. Great memories!

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