It has been my privilege to attend a Billy Graham Crusade three times. Once in Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In October 1979, while I was pastoring a church in Avonport, Nova Scotia and attending Acadia Divinity College, a Billy Graham Crusade came to Halifax, and while there we became good friends with Rev. Jack Cousins, a member of the Billy Graham Team, who came and spoke at our church.
1 Kings 17:15 & 16: “So she did as Elijah said, and she and Elijah and her son continued to eat from her supply of flour and oil for many days. For no matter how much they used, there was always enough left in the containers, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah.”
It is always exciting when a new baby is born. Recently on TV, we were watching the program, “Outdaughtered”, where a family expecting their second child end up with five little girls. They already had one daughter approximately 5 or 6 years old.
My father died when I was 16 and my younger brother, Layton, was 14. Mother could get $50 a month Mother’s allowance. I quit school in Grade 9 and went to work. My first job was burning green slabs at a mill in Upper Belmont, Nova Scotia. I was making $4 a day with room and board. Eleven men slept in a camp approximately 10 by 12 feet and we burnt these green slabs to heat the camp. In the morning, it would be so cold that one of the men would arise early to start the fire with green slabs and a little kerosene.
I just came in from outdoors, and while standing in the driveway, the Postal Service mail truck went by delivering our mail, not to the door as it used to be, but to a group of mail boxes. This is what they call improved mail service. Because of so many hills to climb and age, I have to take our car to pick up the mail. Thank the Lord I still have my license and thanks also to other members of the family, I don’t have to do this every day.
Today all the joy has gone out of travelling. Our thoughts are what is the quickest way to travel? How fast can I get there and get back home? Everyone is in a big hurry.
Being born in 1933, I was privileged to live in those early years when cars, telephone, radio and TV were luxuries. Let me tell you about the first car we had, a 1932 Chevrolet, and those Sunday drives we had.