DAILY BREAD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2007
The Things She Saw!
Neal Pollard
Neal Pollard
Her father-in-law was a slave. The first two numbers of her date of birth were "18." She died in the nursing home at the age of 108. She was voting age when World War I ended, but women could not yet vote. She was a five-year-old girl growing up in Tennessee when Orville and Wilbur made news in a neighboring state. She was of legal retirement age when the civil rights movement swept across the south her famous husband helped effect. She saw her husband help establish 250 churches in the south over their thirty-four years of marriage (some information gleaned from an e-mail news alert posted by Tami Ross, Christian Chronicle, 3/7/07).
She saw changes, good and bad, sweep across our nation. Divorce was extremely rare, in and out of the church. Five states (OK, NM, AZ, AK, and HI) were admitted to the union after her birth. A pound of bread was a nickle, as was a quart of milk. Pork chops were a dime. The mayor of Chicago made an extravagant $10,000 per year (www.chipublib.org). In her childhood, radio, TV, computers, space travel, Ipods, the internet, soccer moms, NASCAR dads, blackberries (at least the electronic kind), political correctness, and fast food restaurants were beyond foreign concepts.
She saw changes in the church, positive and negative. Her husband, Marshall, was one of the greatest positive contributors to change in the last century. He was one of the first black evangelists used widely among predominantly white congregations. She was in grade school when the official recognition of the split between churches of Christ and the Christian Church was reflected in the U.S. census of 1906. She was born fourteen years after H. Leo Boles, was 33 when A.G. Freed died, 24 when J.A. Harding died, 19 when David Lipscomb passed, 13 the year McGarvey died, and B.C. Goodpasture was three years old when she was born! She saw the decade we were purported to be the fastest growing religion in America. She saw extremism, left and right, take its toll on us in the following four decades. She left this world for the next as we stood in the middle of the greatest informational and technological boom the world has ever known.
Laura Keeble died today at the age of 108.
She saw changes, good and bad, sweep across our nation. Divorce was extremely rare, in and out of the church. Five states (OK, NM, AZ, AK, and HI) were admitted to the union after her birth. A pound of bread was a nickle, as was a quart of milk. Pork chops were a dime. The mayor of Chicago made an extravagant $10,000 per year (www.chipublib.org). In her childhood, radio, TV, computers, space travel, Ipods, the internet, soccer moms, NASCAR dads, blackberries (at least the electronic kind), political correctness, and fast food restaurants were beyond foreign concepts.
She saw changes in the church, positive and negative. Her husband, Marshall, was one of the greatest positive contributors to change in the last century. He was one of the first black evangelists used widely among predominantly white congregations. She was in grade school when the official recognition of the split between churches of Christ and the Christian Church was reflected in the U.S. census of 1906. She was born fourteen years after H. Leo Boles, was 33 when A.G. Freed died, 24 when J.A. Harding died, 19 when David Lipscomb passed, 13 the year McGarvey died, and B.C. Goodpasture was three years old when she was born! She saw the decade we were purported to be the fastest growing religion in America. She saw extremism, left and right, take its toll on us in the following four decades. She left this world for the next as we stood in the middle of the greatest informational and technological boom the world has ever known.
Laura Keeble died today at the age of 108.
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