Messages spoken at the Texas Palestine Camps Farthest Out
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Texas Palestine CFO:
10 messages from 5 gatherings, 1959 to 1987.
Texas campers, who first gathered in 1946, settled in 1955 at the Lakeview Methodist Assembly Grounds in Palestine, and by 1980 they had held twenty-four camps there. The name Texas Palestine dates from 1959. In the 2000s campers moved to Glen Rose as the Texas Autumn CFO. The recordings run from 1959 to 1987 and include Ruth Robison, Al Durrance and Tommy Tyson, among others.
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Easter Monday Instead of Good Friday
by Ruth Robison
Ruth Robison tells how her Richmond prayer group moved its three-hour Easter service to Easter Monday rather than Good Friday. Fifty people went into small groups to study the appearances of Jesus after the resurrection, and nobody wanted to go home at ten o'clock. She was opening the week at the Texas Palestine CFO in 1959.
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The Artist Who Could Not Paint the Eyes
by Ruth Robison
Closing a week at the Texas Palestine CFO in 1959, Ruth Robison tells the story of an artist. He studied an old man's compassion, a child's brightness, and a young person's expectancy before he dared to paint the eyes of Jesus. Christ has no other eyes in the world today, she tells campers, than theirs.
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Lights On the Highway
by Ruth Robison · May 8, 1959
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God Knows When To Yank the Coattails Away
by Norman Elliott · May 18, 1967
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Present Me, Granddaddy
by Tommy Tyson · June 1, 1982
Transmitting Life
by Tommy Tyson · June 2, 1982
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Paul Was a Southerner
by Al Durrance · May 25, 1984
Hang Loose: Hiram and the Necktie
by Al Durrance · May 26, 1984
A Casket For the Fly
by Al Durrance · May 29, 1984
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The Best John Hobbs I Could Be
by John Hobbs · May 25, 1987