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As I Remember Me
By John B. Isom

(My heartfelt thanks to my wife Elien (Newsome) Isom and my friend Walter Abbott for all their help preparing this manuscript for publication.)

Table of Contents

THE EARLY YEARS
   
   GRANDPA ISOM
    MY MOTHER
    MY FATHER
    BROTHERS AND SISTERS
    RELIGION OF MY PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS
    OUR ECONOMIC STATUS
   OUR EATING HABITS.

THE EARLY YEARS (con'd), GROWING UP     
   
   MY CHILDHOOD JOBS
   OUR JOURNEY TO A NEW COMMUNITY
   HOUSE AND LAY OF THE LAND
   FIRST TWO YEARS
   COOK PLACE
   MY STEP MOTHER
   DOUBLE STANDARD
   UPCHURCH FARM

GROWING UP (con'd.) AND HIGH SCHOOL YEARS

  MORE LESSONS IN SALESMANSHIP
   REFLECTIONS ON "WILDERNESS"
   MR. COOK
   TALMAGE WHATLEY
   B.Y.P.U.
   RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME
-- SORT OF
   B.Y.P.U. AND THE EVA BAPTIST CHURCH
   A LUCKY ENCOUNTER WITH MR. E.L. BUCKNER
   PORTIS AND I
   ELIEN AND I
   ROMANCE AND DATING

HIGH SCHOOL YEARS (con'd.) AND APPLYING FOR COLLEGE

LIVING WITH THE BUCKNERS
THE UNCLE BILL STORY  (My first encounter with racism)
I COULD NEVER REPAY THE BUCKNER'S
THE HOLLY POND BAPTIST CHURCH AND I
MY FIRST SERMON

SUNDAY SCHOOL "EXPERT"  - A REMARKABLE CONGREGATION IN THE  PIEDMONT HILLS OF ALABAMA ABOUT TWENTY MILES NORTH OF ANNISTON

BEREA COLLEGE IN KENTUCKY

COLLEGE YEARS

LEAVING HOLLY POND HEADED FOR HOWARD COLLEGE
A COUNTRY CHURCH ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY
MY FIRST CHURCH JOB IN THE BIG CITY

MY JOB AT THE SULPHUR SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH
MY COLLEGE DORMITORY ROOMMATES
LIVING OFF CAMPUS
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AND HOUSE SITTING WITH BED BUGS

THE ACCIDENT
AS A PAPER RETAILER IN THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT

COLLEGE YEARS (con'd.)

MT. CRMEL BAPTIST CHURCH (September 1934--September 1936)
MY COLLEGE EDUCATION EVALUATED
THE GREAT REVIVAL  (HOWARD COOLEGE)

LEAVING COLLEGE AND GOING TO THE SEMINARY

MY RELIGIOUS STATE OF MIND
MY SEMINARY YEARS

THE SEMINARY (con'd) AND THE COMING WAR (WORLD WAR II)

TURNING POINT
BASIC ASSUMPTIONS DEFINED


THE SEMINARY(con'd) and GOING TO COURTLAND, VIRGINIA

COMPARATIVE RELIGION CLASS
HOMELETICS CLASS
ON THE CIRCUIT IN VIRGINIA
THREE YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS IN COURTLAND, VIRGINIA

COURTLAND, VIRGINIA (con'd)

THE MOST EFFECTIVE SERMON I EVER PREACHED
BOY SCOUT LEADER
ROSE
--THE BIRTH OF MY FIRST CHILD

WORLD WAR II

PEARL HARBOR
CHAPLIN SCHOOL
CAMP SIBERT (Gadsten, Alabama)  1943
CAMP CROFT (1944)

SAXON BAPTIST CHURCH YEARS - PART 1
(Spartanburg, South Carolina)  1946--1953

REV. BLACKWELL & "OLD MAN LAW"
"JUD" BROOKS
--THE GUILTY PARTY
CLARENCE GUTHRIE
THE MILL'S NEW OWNERS
TEMPER OF MY MIND
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
A DAMN COMMUNIST
THE SILENT PICKET LINE
"MAN WITH A HOE"
STATE CONVENTION ELECTION & POLITICS
A NEW MAGAZINE 
--  "CHRISTIAN FRONTIERS"
COMMUNISM

SAXON BAPTIST CHURCH YEARS  -  PART 2
(Spartanburg, South Carolina)  1946--1953

CAN-A-WEEK-CLUB
ORGANIZED LABOR
NAACP
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
MY READING PROGRAM
ALBERT SCHWEITZER AND HIS "QUEST FOR THE HISTORIC JESUS"
WILDERNESS OF THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

SAXON BAPTIS CHURCH YEARS  -  PART 3
(Spartanburg, South Carolina)  1946--1953

THE INFLUENCE OF  "THE PHILOSOPY OF CHIVILIZATION" by ALBERT SCHWEITZER


THE SAXON BAPTIST CHURCH -  Part  4
(Spartanburg, South Carolina)   1946 -1952

W. T. STACE AND "THE GATES OF SILENCE"
A RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURE
FAMILY AFFAIRS

THE SAXON BAPTIST CHURCH - Part 5
(Spartanburg, South Carolina)   

VACATION
AN EASTER SERMON
DAY TO DAY NOTEBOOK
REV. ROBERT WESTON AND

THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF LOUSIVILLE
ONCE IN A LIFE TIME
ELIEN?
NEW ALBANY, INDIANE  -  OUR NEW ABODE
ROSE ELIEN AND MARY BETH?

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF LOUISVILLE & WICHITA

AS CHURCH SECRETARY
FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF WICHITA, KANSAS
TRIP TO WICHITA
CHURCH BEGINS

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH (WICHITA, KANSAS) (Con'd)

HOW TO MOVE A CHURCH  -  IF YOU ARE LUCKY
OUR FIRTS LUCKY BREAK
OUR SECOND LUCKY BREAK
MY NEW IMPORVED READING PROGRAM
THE RELIGION OF EMERSON
RELIGION OF EINSTEIN

THE RELIGION OF EINSTEIN  (Con'd)

RELIGION OF EINSTEIN (Con'd)
ANOTHER PART OF MY READING PROGRAM
AGE OF FAITH
SOCIAL ACTION
THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY (Wichita, Kansas)
SOCIAL LIFE OF CHURCH MEMBERS
VISITING MINISTER TO FELLOWSHIPS
AMARILLO AND LUBBOCK, TEXAS
DECISION TO MOVE TO DES MOINES, IOWA
BIRTH OF A UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
THE TRIP TO DES MOINES, IOWA




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