PREACHER BOY IN THE HEARTLAND

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AN AGING GRANDMOTHER SETS HER GOAL TO RAISE HER MOTHERLESS GRANDSON CONTRARY TO THE WISHES AND TEACHINGS OF HIS FATHER AND HIS VALUES, THE FATHER HAS GREAT ASPIRATIONS TO BECOME FAMOUS AS AN EVANGELIST AND USES HIS SON TO PURSUE HIS LIFES GOAL THROUGH THE BOYS BIBLICAL TALENTS. THE FATHER CONSTANTLY GIVES INTO TEMPTATIONS, CONTRARY TO HIS PREACHING, AND IT BECOMES A PROBLEM FOR EVERYONE.

THROUGHOUT THE BOY'S EARLY YEARS HE IS TORN BETWEEN HIS LOVE FOR HIS GRANDMOTHER AND HIS FATHER. AS THE YEARS BEGIN TO PASS BY HE REALIZES HE MUST DECIDE IF HE IS GOING TO FOLLOW THE PATH OF HIS FATHER IN A LIFESTYLE OF ON-AGAIN, OFF-AGAIN CHRISTIANITY, OR THE STRONG PROTESTANT EVANGELICAL TEACHINGS OF HIS GRANDMOTHER. THE TEMPTATION IS THERE AND HE STRUGGLES WITH IT. WHEN HIS GRANDMOTHER DIED HE MADE HIS DECISION.

About the Author

BORN EVANSVILLE, IN. 1926. SERVED IN USMC DURING WWII. ATTENDED LOCKYEAR BUSINESS COLLEGE 1946. WORKED AS LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER AND SERVED AS LOCAL CHAIRMAN AND VICE GENERAL CHAIRMAN REPRESENTING THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS ON THE CSX RAILROAD. SERVED ON RESIDENCE LIFE STAFF AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA RETIRED 2001. MARRIED 49 YEARS.