Revivin' From Revivals

Written by Ed Williams


Rememberrepparttar revivals they used to have around these parts back when we were growing up?

I sure do. Back in those days, most churches had at least one revival each summer, usually in either July or August. We’re not talking just one night revivals, either - some of these revivals ran for at least three or four nights, and sometimes even longer.

The preachers who did these revivals were typically from some ofrepparttar 110243 other churches inrepparttar 110244 area. Doing these services gave them a chance to preach at other locations, and it also gave themrepparttar 110245 chance to experience new congregations. Sometimes churches would be so impressed with a revival preacher that they’d ultimately ask him to become their pastor. I think, forrepparttar 110246 preachers, revivals were a great thing.

For those of us inrepparttar 110247 congregation, revivals were a mixed blessing. First, they had them for at least three or four consecutive nights, and you had to attend each night. That meant three or more consecutive nights of church services that lasted two to three hours each night. No matter how you look at it, that’s an awful lot, even forrepparttar 110248 most devout among us. Compound that withrepparttar 110249 fact that it was summer, typically eighty plus degrees outside, and you were miserable. And don’t even ask me aboutrepparttar 110250 mosquitoes and gnats. With allrepparttar 110251 perfume and aftershave that we had wafting around inrepparttar 110252 church, we might as well have put up signs for them and announced that open season had been declared. I came home with so many red splotches sometimes that I resembled a human pimple.

The most memorable revival for me was one I attended back around ‘65. It was held atrepparttar 110253 Juliette Methodist Church, andrepparttar 110254 preacher was a guy out of Griffin namedrepparttar 110255 Reverend Sam Krate, or something like that. I remember sitting next to Tommy Cochran, and Tommy called him, “the Reverend Sour Kraut.” I thought that was pretty funny, so that’s how I remember him to this day.

The Reverend Kraut was a good preacher, and he could talk a blue streak. The only problem was,repparttar 110256 more crowd reaction he got,repparttar 110257 longer he talked. On this particular night he’d gone for a good two hours, and still hadn’t finished. I was gettin’ pretty frustrated.

Fortunately, I wasn’trepparttar 110258 only one. Ed Jr. was seated to my right, and my mom was sittin’ just right of him. He’d grimacedrepparttar 110259 entire night, and I could tell that he was getting restless. The Reverend Kraut started talkin’ about Genesis, and this wasrepparttar 110260 final straw for Ed Jr. He leaned over and whispered, “Noah could’ve loaded up his ark inrepparttar 110261 time Reverend Kraut has taken tonight. Boy, get puny for me, quick.”

Tips for Naming Your Baby

Written by Richard Wassell


Richard Wassell is a Parent and Owner of http://www.livinghealthysite.com

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