History - Blessed Old Bible Hour

[Bishop1]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

James & Baulah Davis left Muskegon and moved futher North
to establish a Church in Luddington Michigan
2 of her Preacher son-in-laws are Elder Crider & Elder Spiers _

Ernie & Betty Jolly went on to pastor in Bessemer Alabama -

Edward and Juanita {Hemphill} Kelley pastored in Birmingham Alabama -

[SDG]

Originally Posted by ReformedDave

My father introduced Hoekstra to 'little' David. Big mistake.

Why was this a mistake?

[DAII]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Hoekstra is listed of director ... diretor of what ... the campaign .... the conference?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by DAII

Hoekstra is listed of director ... diretor of what ... the campaign .... the conference?

I would assume director of the campaign.

There is some information at
http://oldlandmark.wordpress.com/200...e-latter-rain/
about Bro. Hoekstra (called Huckster by some) and Little David

[Sam]

an announcement about Little David in Cincinnati.
http://old-time-religion.blogspot.co...-hours-in.html

This happened some time before I came to the Cincinnati area in 1957. At tha time there were two members in the church who were the fruit of the Little David campaigns. Both of these members were kinda "different" in the eyes of the teenagers in the church at that time. By "kinda different" I mean they were some of the "church characters" every congregation seems to draw.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by Sam

I would assume director of the campaign.

There is some information at
http://oldlandmark.wordpress.com/200...e-latter-rain/
about Bro. Hoekstra (called Huckster by some) and Little David

This is a picture of a PCI conference is it not? Did he hold position in the old PCI?

I known he became David's manager.

I found the Shaw article to be somewhat derogatory about chaplain Ray.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by Sam

an announcement about Little David in Cincinnati.
http://old-time-religion.blogspot.co...-hours-in.html

This happened some time before I came to the Cincinnati area in 1957. At tha time there were two members in the church who were the fruit of the Little David campaigns. Both of these members were kinda "different" in the eyes of the teenagers in the church at that time. By "kinda different" I mean they were some of the "church characters" every congregation seems to draw.

This was appears to be after Hoekstra left in 1949/50 ... interesting that Curts, the host pastor, would still use David after the label of Latter Rain had been pegged on him and Hoekstra.

[Falla39]

Originally Posted by Sam

Hair tonic, I haven't heard that term for a few years.
As a teenager in the nineteen fifties we used Brylcreem (spelling) which was white and "a little dab'll do ya" was the ad. Or we used "hair oil" which was more of a liquid. Or we used Vaseline petroleum jelly. Hair was greased, combed, and then a "wave" or "roll" was formed in the front. The sides were combed back to form what was called a duck tail (or abbreviated "da" in the back."

This picture was taken in the fall of nineteen fifty-five when I was a high school senior right around the time I was baptized in Jesus' name.

How nice you looked, Bro. Sam! I relate to those days of which you spoke!
I graduated in 1957, received the Holy Ghost the summer of 1958, married
the summer of 1959 and became a mother the summer of 1960. Her eldest
of five sons, will become a father for the first time any day now. She will be-
come a grandmother for the first time. I will become a Great-Grandmother
for the first time.

God has led us all the way. Led us step by step each day. I will tell the
saints and angels, when I lay my armour down. Jesus led us all the way!
(portion of an old song.

Falla39

[DAII]

I found the AG's response to the Latter Rain movement to be interesting:

The tenets of the Latter Rain are probably best summarized in a 1949 Assemblies of God resolution detailing the movement’s errors:

1. The overemphasis relative to imparting, identifying, bestowing or confirming gifts by the laying of hands and prophecy.
2. The erroneous teaching that the Church is built on the foundation of present-day apostles and prophets.
3. The extreme teaching as advocated by the “New Order” regarding the confession of sin to man and deliverance as practiced, which claims prerogatives to human agency which belong only to Christ.
4. The erroneous teaching concerning impartation of the gift of languages as special equipment or missionary service.
5. The extreme unscriptural practice of imparting or imposing personal leadings by the means of gifts of utterance.
6. Such other wrestings and distortions of Scriptural interpretation which are in opposition to teachings and practices generally accepted among us. (qtd. in Warner 16)

Warner, Wayne. “Reaction of the A/G to the Latter Rain.” Heritage 1 September 1987, pp. 16-19.

[Sam]

more Little David stuff

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...pg=743,4409119

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=4742,3629175

http://biblemissionsinc.com/?page_id=33

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/19...s-pin-a-dingy/