Messages spoken at the Chicago Camps Farthest Out Retreat
Chicago CFO Retreat:
13 messages from 7 gatherings, 1950 to 1966.
The recordings, from 1950 to 1966, come from a retreat that campers attended at Austin Methodist Church in Chicago, usually in October or December. Speakers include Roland Brown, Frank Laubach, Gertrude Dekock Keehn, Glenn Harding, Louise Eggleston, Anna Mow and Brother Mandus. Chicago campers had earlier held a summer camp of their own at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, from 1936 to 1939.
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Chiefs Who Carried Faucets Home
Arab chiefs once unscrewed London hotel faucets to carry running water back to Arabia. At the 1950 Chicago Retreat CFO at Austin Methodist Church, Anna Mow uses them to warn that a camp experience cannot be carried home that way. The Spirit himself must remain, and growth is walking, not flying.
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The Judge Who Never Called the Hospital
At the 1952 Chicago Retreat CFO at Austin Methodist Church, Louise Eggleston told about a judge whose wife lay in a coma with inoperable cancer. He gathered a retired minister and a home missionary into a day of fasting and prayer. Then he came home from church without once telephoning the hospital, and found her sitting up.
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The Potential of the Grid
Gertrude Dekock Keehn preaches from John 6 that the kingdom of heaven is found within, not in any place. In her talk to the Chicago Retreat CFO at Austin Methodist Church in 1954, she recalls her grandson's delight at a "wonderful ballet in the trees" as proof that seeking it first changes how campers see the world.
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It Won't Amount to a Hill of Beans
He Helped The Pen That Wrote It
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This Body Is My Servant
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The Caliper Came Off
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Roland Brown draws on George Washington Carver's line that "cotton and silk are two incompatible fabrics." Worldly habits, he argues, cannot mix with life in Christ. To the Chicago Retreat CFO at Austin Methodist Church in 1966 he teaches diet, rest and gratitude as disciplines of creative living.
The One Engagement We Never Reached
Roland Brown counts his one true failure in fifty countries of travel. A train wreck in Ceylon forced him and his wife back without ever reaching the meeting. He offers the story to the Chicago Retreat CFO at Austin Methodist Church in 1966, as proof that the Spirit still guides when plans fall apart.
At the 1966 Chicago Retreat CFO at Austin Methodist Church, Roland Brown runs through an itinerary across the Orient and the Pacific. He turns serious over a chaplain at an air base in Udorn, Thailand, who prays with him for airmen flying missions toward the Laos border.
Mechanics in Japan found sand and dirt clogging the fuel line of Roland Brown's car. He gives that image to the 1966 Chicago Retreat CFO at Austin Methodist Church, for the small unconfessed sins that had clogged his own power in prayer. Confessing them, he says, restored it within minutes.
A War on Affluence