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TITLE: "THE WORD OF LIFE"
"A Book of Sermons and Articles"
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AUTHOR: Edited by Franklin Camp.
Contributors: Franklin Camp and F. W. (Frank William) Gould. See bio sketches below for both.
DATE PUBLISHED: Not dated. Published by Proclamation Press.
BINDING: Paperback
PAGES: 277
CONDITION: Very Good+. Text is clear/clean. NO marks!! No previous owner's name.
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Joseph Franklin Camp
Franklin Camp, a much-loved and respected
student and teacher of the word of God died Monday, May 21, 1991 after a brief
illness. He was 75 years old. News of his death saddened Christians across the
nation. This brief account will note some milestones in the life of this
faithful Christian whose work influenced so many through more than fifty years
of preaching and writing.
Joseph Franklin Camp was born June 9,1915 near
the foot of Cheaha Mountain at Hopeful, Alabama. His family moved to Munford in
1921. His father, Benjamin Franklin Camp, preached at Munford and ran a store
there. As a youth, Franklin heard the preaching of S. P. Pittman (who baptized
him at age 14), S. H. Hall, Gus Nichols, and others who came to preach in
gospel meetings. These brethren were guests in the Camps' home during those
meetings.
Franklin entered David Lipscomb College
in the fall of 1934, where he formed a friendship with Willard Collins that
would last a lifetime. Franklin Camp preached his first sermon June 9, 1935, at
Campbell Crossroads, Alabama. The following Sunday he preached at Munford.
On February 27, 1937, brother Camp married
Hazel Howell. They walked hand in hand for more than 54 years. The Camps had
four children -- Frank, Vivian, Paul, and David It was also in 1937 that
brother Camp began preaching regularly at Munford. That yea, brother Gus
Nichols came to Munford for a meeting, and brother Camp learned that brother
Nichols studied about five hours a day. He decided that he needed to study six
hours a day, and for most of fifty years, he woke up early to get to the study
where he did the work that enriched his life and preaching. At Munford he
worked in his father's store, and ran it after the elder Camp died. In 1938, he
started preaching daily on WHMA in Anniston. Many were converted, and
congregations were established as a result of that program. Those were the days
of "brush arbor" and tent meetings, and brother Camp preached
frequently in those open-air gatherings. One account sent to the Gospel
Advocate told of crowds sitting in the rain to hear the gospel
preached by brother Camp. He preached in stores and houses, wherever the
opportunity arose. Congregations in Talladega, Lineville, Piedmont, Pine Hill,
and other communities were established as a result of brother Camp's work
during those Munford days.
In 1947, Franklin and Hazel Camp moved to
LaGrange, Georgia where they worked for two years. In 1949, they moved to East
Gadsden, Alabama, to work thirteen years with the church there. Many were
converted as a result of radio preaching in Gadsden. A dark page of the Camps'
life was written at East Gadsden was on September 13, 1951, when their daughter
Vivian died after being burned in an accident.
In 1962, the Camps moved to Birmingham to work
with the Shades Mountain Church of Christ. Brother Camp preached there until
1971, when he left local work to devote full time to writing and lecturing,
supported by the Adamsville congregation and others. In 1976, he began working
with the Adamsville church, teaching a Bible class beginning in Genesis
designed to trace the scheme of redemption through the Bible. He continued that
class when, at nearly seventy years old, he returned to East Gadsden in 1985 for
another two and a half years in the pulpit. He left Adamsville with a standing
invitation to return, which he accepted in mid-1987. Brother and sister Camp
moved to Moody, Alabama (near Birmingham) where they spent the remaining years
of their life together. His class at Adamsville continued through 1 Timothy
chapter one, when he taught for the last time on May 5, 1991. He also preached
that Sunday morning at Adamsville.
Brother Camp wrote several books and tracts.
He wrote regularly for brotherhood papers. He edited three papers. He was an
annual favorite on the Freed-Hardeman and Lipscomb lecture programs for years,
and he spoke regularly on many others. It is probably not possible to count how
many meetings, radio programs and sermons he preached. The two works that
brother Camp believed were his most important were the tapes of the Adamsville
Bible studies, and his Monday preachers' classes. The classes began in 1955 at
East Gadsden and moved as he moved from place to place through the years. The
class met at Leeds for the last four years, and met for the last time on
Monday, May 6, 1991. Three generations of gospel preachers were helped and
encouraged by this class during the 36 years it met.
After open heart surgery in 1981, brother Camp
enjoyed relatively good health during the last ten years of his life. He gave
careful attention to exercise and diet. In the last two years, he experienced
some difficulty with his sinuses that caused him to cancel some speaking
engagements. He entered AMI Brookwood Hospital in Birmingham for lung surgery
Monday, May 13, 1991. After the surgery, he remained in the Surgical Intensive
Care Unit for eight days. He died early Tuesday morning, May 21. His funeral was
conducted at Munford Wednesday, May 22. His body was laid to rest in the family
plot of the old Munford cemetery.
At the 1981 Freed-Hardeman College lectures,
brother Camp was honored with an appreciation dinner. Many speakers told about
different parts of his life, including his nephew Winfred Clark, to whom we are
indebted for many of the early details of brother Camp's life related here. In
his remarks at the end of the ceremony, brother Camp was typically humble,
crediting his wife, family, friends, his preacher students, and congregations
where he worked for encouraging him. He said he was grateful for what had been
said honoring him, and that he wanted to lay that honor at the Lord's feet. He
said, "My life's ambition is to be able to meet Jesus Christ the Son of
God in the world beyond, and lay it all at his feet. . . I would be happy if
you would forget about me, and think about the Savior, who came to live and
die, and love, and teach us all what life is really about" We who lived
with him, learned from him, and loved him will honor his request to give God
the glory, but we will never forget Franklin Camp.
--
Michael B. McElroy, World Evangelist, Vol. 19, No.12, July, 1991, p.1,19,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Frank
William Gould
1907-1994
The Life of F.W. Gould
Frank William (F. W.) Gould was born in Vienna, Illinois,
November 8, 1907. When he was twenty-two he obeyed the gospel under the
preaching of the venerable I. A. Douthitt. During the next ten years he studied
at Draughon's Business College, Paducah, Kentucky, and at Freed-Hardeman
College, Henderson, Tennessee.
As a student at FHC he was privileged to learn from some of
the greatest Bible preachers and teachers of his time. Men like H. Leo Boles
and N. B. Hardeman became his mentors.
Gould married Anna L. Corzine and began a ministry that
would continue 62 years at his home town of Vienna in 1932. He moved to Benton,
Kentucky, in 1939 and worked with the church during the dark days of World War
II. In 1945, he and his family (now consisting of Frances Ann, Laurel Anoia,
and Iris Joan) moved to Mt. Vernon, Illinois, where he preached until 1949.
The Pyburn Street Church in Pocahontas called Gould in 1949.
The elders of the church authorized his ministerial credentials in June of that
year.
F. W. GOULD, MINISTER
Church of Christ, June 1, 1949, Pocahomas, Arkansas
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This is to certify that the Church of Christ, Pocahomas, Arkansas, recognizes
F. W. Gould as a faithful gospel minister and qualified to attend to all the
duties involved in the work of the ministry.
/s/ E. L. Perrin, For the Elders, Filed in my office this 1st day of June,
1949.
/s/ Bob Harvester, County Clerk1 (1 Randolph County Book 1. p.2.)
Gould enjoyed a successful ministry as an effective pulpit
preacher, editor of The Noble Searcher, radio evangelist, teacher and debater.
During his early years at Pocahontas he conducted a men's training class in
which several men, Lowell Blasingame and Cecil Wilson among them, became
acknowledged preachers. Gould also represented the church in a debate with Jame
Ivy on the subject of "Salvation and Apostasy" in the old stock barn
at the Randolph County Fairgrounds in 1950.2 (2 This writer remembers being present
at the debate with his father, Cecil Wilson. See: Preachers of Today (1952), p.
137.) Gould's success as a gospel meeting preacher led him to conclude that he
could do more good as a full-time evangelist than he could as a located
minister. To this end he dedicated himself beginning in May, 1952.3 (3 Ibid.)
This, however, did not work out as he had hoped. Gould returned to Pocahontas
as the Pyburn Street minister and remained until 1955.4 (4 Preachers of Today (
1959). p. 165. See: E. W. Stovall, "Gould To Return," The Noble
Searcher (Oct. 18, 1957): 180. Hereafter referred 10 as "Gould To
Return.") Summarizing his ministry of the 1950s, Gould wrote that he had
preached over seventeen radio stations in eight states; conducted two hundred
and twenty-five gospel meetings; assisted in establishing a number of
congregations; and, baptized, among others, his father, mother, one brother and
three sisters.4 (Preachers of Today. (1952; 59).
The Clements Street Church of Christ in Paducah, Kentucky,
called him as pulpit minister in 1955. After remaining there a couple of years,
he received and accepted an invitation to return to Pyburn Street in
Pocahontas. In the October, 1957, issue of The Noble Searcher, E. W. Stovall
stated that Gould had agreed to return to Pocahontas a third time.
"Brother Gould who has worked with this congregation twice already wrote
that he would consider the work again, and the elders in business meeting Sunday
afternoon decided to use Brother Gould again," wrote the editor.
"This arrangement," Stovall said, "has some advantage, since
Brother Gould and family will not have the task of getting acquainted, as would
a new man. Brother Gould is plenty able to do the work that is in progress here
... we hope for the church and the Goulds a great work together."5 (5
"Gould to Return.") Gould decided against returning to Pocahontas.
however, and remained with the Paducah church for twelve more years. 6 (6
"Gospel Meeting Brochure," prepared by Michael L. Wilson, for Gould's
meeting with the 5th and Pine Church of Christ, Rector, Arkansas, March 22-28,
1970.)
In 1970 Gould returned to Pyburn Street in Pocahontas as
minister, and later as an elder and minister. After a number of busy years, and
with age and health becoming negative factors, he stepped down from the Pyburn
Street pulpit and discontinued his service as an elder. He continued to teach
the auditorium class even though his hearing had become seriously impaired.
Gould continued to preach in meetings and do what he could
to serve area churches. The last congregation for which he preached on a
regular basis was Grassy lead in Clay County. But his health would not allow
him to continue the work he loved so well.
On July 28, 1994, eighty-four year old F. W. Gould laid his
earthly mantle aside and went to be with the angels. His memorial service was
held in the Pyburn Street building, August 1, before a large crowd of mourners,
and conducted by his long-time friend and brother in Christ. G.W. Allison, his
son-in-law, Jim Phillips, a grandson, Mel Futrell, and a grandson-in-law, Mitch
Walton. Phillips, Futrell and Walton are preachers.
The old soldier's body was interred in Randolph Memorial
Gardens in East Pocahontas.7 (7"F. W. Gould," Pocahonts Star Herald,
04 August 1994, p. 7.) His beloved Anna remains at home. The great library that
Gould had amassed over the years was distributed equally to his preaching
family memb
Dr. Michael L.
Wilson, Arkansas Christians:A History of the Restoration Movement in Randolph
County, Arkansas 1800-1995, c.1997, Delight: Gospel Light Publishing Co., pages
215,216
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