Messages given at the Nebraska Camps Farthest Out
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In the fourth talk of her series on the spiritual way, Ruth Robison takes campers through Jesus as son of man, teacher, healer and revealer of the Father. She describes the shepherd who checks each sheep for thorn scratches at the narrow gate. She also describes the three-hour Easter Monday service her prayer group began, so that Christians would dwell in the resurrection rather than the cross. The series ran at the Nebraska CFO in 1960.
Roshan Rinker opens with Hannah Hurnard’s “Hind’s Feet on High Places,” in which Little Much Afraid escapes her tormentors simply by speaking the name of Jesus. Rinker then sketches a straight line for relationship with Christ above a crooked daily line for fellowship with him. The talk was given at the Nebraska CFO in 1964.
At the Nebraska CFO in 1959, Hannah Hurnard compares self-will to the leaven a household hunts for by candlelight before Passover. She then traces Hebrew words for parts of the body to show how healing follows the fruits of the Spirit.
Alex McCullough closes his farewell talk with what he calls his “fantasy musicale,” a story he first told at the 1991 Nebraska CFO. In it a musician finally “heard” the old song “Come to Me, My Melancholy Baby” as an invitation, and gave his life, and later his family’s, to Jesus. He also reads John 21’s beach breakfast, urging campers to keep “seeing” Jesus after they go home.
Starr Daily tells of a doctor who took “forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” literally. The doctor burned his cabinets of uncollected bills and watched a ruined practice revive. This opening night at the 1955 Nebraska CFO also carries his conviction that no one is ever changed from the outside in.
Love gives reverence and courage. Starr Daily insists we stop praying for what God has already given us and start using it. His talk to the 1955 Nebraska CFO ends in a prison tuberculosis ward, with the old man who cracked his shins with a broomstick cane and who died pointing past the wall, saying, “It’s beautiful.”
Louise Eggleston and Starr Daily share the closing session at the 1962 Nebraska CFO. One retells the prodigal son through a new robe, ring, and fatted calf. The other calls campers “ambassadors for God,” illustrated by Stanley Jones riding a tram in India.
Starr Daily retells a western he watched in the penitentiary one Christmas Day. In it the hero stays behind to tend the villain he has just beaten, and the three ride off together. To the Nebraska CFO in 1962 he adds the books that found their way to his cell, and the pact with his wife that no quarrel outlast the day.
The prodigal son becomes a course in prayer. God answers even the selfish “give me,” then lets a misused answer ruin us. Starr Daily recalls the Mexican peasant woman who prayed him back to health at nineteen, and he tells campers at the Nebraska CFO in 1955 that he promptly rendered that healing to Satan.
Three words from Peter, “establish, strengthen, settle,” are the spine of Starr Daily’s book “This Is The Life.” At the 1955 Nebraska CFO he uses them to insist that faith stays dead until it works. His proof is the guidance he handed a fed-up husband: wash and massage your wife’s feet every night. The man did it, and the marriage bloomed.