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He Was Six Foot Three And Wore A Stetson
Last week I drove from Austin to Ft. Worth in the middle of a business trip. The afternoon I left to drive back to Austin I was finally able to meet the famous AFF poster "Ferd".
We arranged to meet at a Sauna. Well actually a Philly Cheese Steak place with a good reputatoin that Ferd wanted to check out and didn't realize had no dining room. Only outside picnic tables in the 95 degree weather with a brisk hair-dryer temp wind blowing.
I got there first and waited for the infamous Ferd. I knew it was him when I saw a tall true Texas Cowboy complete with white Stetson hat, blue jeans, and cowboy boots step out of that pickup with a toothpick between his teeth. Ferd had arrived!
He said "Howdy Pardner" and crushed my hand in a texas cowboy handshake.
We had a great time talking about God, Church, Louisiana, and a few other things so much that I didn't realize all of the things we didn't get around to talking about until after I left.
I definitely want to hook back up again for a visit the next time I am in the DFW area as Ferd is a great guy to visit with. Just as much a gentleman in person as on the forum.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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