Messages given at the West Virginia Capon Springs Camps Farthest Out
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A child gives her teacher a melted icicle because she had seen a rainbow inside it, and Ruth Robison asks campers to carry home the rainbow rather than the experience. On communion night at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1967, she holds that communion is itself God’s healing service, and she tells of a woman quieted before cancer surgery.
Agnes Sanford made her weekly communion for one year of her life at a time. Working back that way, she came upon a childhood illness at the age of three that changed how she understood her own nervousness. She gave that account to the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1972.
Ruth Robison closes a week of teaching with a charge on discipline. Being made well and staying well are two different things, she says, and “a disciple is a disciplined person.” Then she turns prayer around, reading out a list of the prayers God is praying and asking groups across the camps to begin by choosing which one they will help answer. The week was at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO.
Preaching at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1956, Bernie Warfield recalls his conversion at his first camp in 1945. He then likens every believer to biscuits cut from the same batch of dough. Some are browned just right and others are scorched, but all are shaped by the same hand and headed for the same table.
At the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1956, Bernie Warfield pictures unconquered jealousy, fear, and anger as charms dangling outside a soul. Small daily mercies, like giving up the best piece of toast, work each charm loose. Once a charm is dropped inside, it can no longer trouble its owner.
Bernie Warfield likens complacency to a golf ball resting in its hole. He follows Moses to the “backside of the desert,” and closes with a hunter who is content to die clutching a single feather from the bird of truth. The talk was given at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1956.
Ruth Carter Stapleton continues her prayer series, recalling how she begged in one night to give up “every crutch,” and how a fellow speaker stopped her from rushing her own growth. She teaches that the power in prayer comes from trusting God rather than herself. She closes with the night she finally forgave a friend who had hurt her deeply. The session comes from the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1971.
Ruth Carter Stapleton walks a woman married twenty years back through the moment she found her husband with another woman. She guides her to relive the scene with Jesus present until she can forgive them both. The recording, made at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1971, explains this as inner healing: letting the Holy Spirit revisit a wounding memory so it no longer binds the present.
At the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1967, Tommy Tyson recalls his thirteen year old son telling him that he had violated the rights of a United States citizen. He answered that his one right was that he would gladly die for the boy. He makes that love the mark of the Holy Spirit, who brings us into union with the risen Jesus and lets us see him even in the day’s news.
A grieving man dreams his way into a heavenly house and finds the chair the collectors had taken back. His wife tells him to sit down, because it is paid for. Our inheritance is Jesus himself, Tommy Tyson says at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1967, and we claim it the way a child holds out a plate and says thank you before the food comes.