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9781420814699: Singing in the Shadows: Edited by Sharon Oliver Coffin
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ISBN 10 : 1420814699 ISBN 13 : 9781420814699
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Within these pages, there are over 200 poems which were written during the thirty-seven years of Reverend Jerry Lee Oliver's Ministry. He loved his family and friends, and he spent time counseling families, and encouraging the youth in the Community. Many of these poems reveal his emotions at the time they were written, as he helped these families through their trials and tribulations. There are happy ones, - sad ones, - hopeful ones, and religious ones. In fact, many speak on 'Life's problems' and how to cope with them. He especially loved Christmas and wrote about all of the Holidays. Of the group of 200 poems that we now have,the oldest dated one was written in 1933, and there are 56 which have no date. He probably wrote at least one poem per year most years. His most prolific years of writing were the WWII years 1939 through 1945. It was in those years that he wrote about his concern for Service Men, - World Peace, - Freedom, - and the Brotherhood of Man. These concerns seemed to be of great importance to him at that time. Many of these poems are based of events of his life, such as "My Childhood Home,"-"The Pea Ridge School," -"When Tom and I Were Boys," remembering his happy childhood. Both "The Presence," and "My Call," reveal his feelings as a young man and his call to enter the ministry in 1914. Dad wrote about his own father, "The Farmer," who was a farmer for all of his life, beginning in the 1800's. He worked the land with a horse and a mule, from daylight until dark to provide for his family." In later years he wrote of his father in the poem "The Pilgrim at Sunset," and read it at his funeral. He wrote of his Mother in poems, "In Remembrance," "To Honor Mother," and "A Funeral Prayer." In "A Call and A Romance," he wrote of a young man at Tarleton College, who became a minister with his help and guidance, and the two were always close. "A Call and A Romance" is a story of Hayden Edwards and his wife, Jessie. And later, "That Friend of Mine" revealed

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Biographie de l'auteur

Jerry Lee Oliver, was born March 19, 1887, in Erath County, Huckabay Community of Pea Ridge, Texas. Jerry was the oldest son of five children, born to James Robert Oliver and Kate Coleman Oliver. He started to school when he was four years old with a teacher named Mrs. Lennox. He had many fond memories of his childhood, which he wrote about in his later years. After finishing his schooling in the Pea Ridge Community, Jerry went to the Huckabay Academy for Higher Education, where he received a Teachers Certificate to teach in the County Schools. Jerry finished the Academy in 1904 and from there, at age seventeen, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied English, Latin, and Greek. During the years 1909-1910, 1911-1912, and 1912-1913, he taught English and Latin at the Huckabay Academy in Erath County. The Academy prepared students to take a Teachers Exam in order to teach in the rural schools of Texas. Sometime after 1910, Pearlie Morton was one of his students, and later a teacher. In the Fall of 1913, he attended Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas. In the Spring and Fall of 1914 as well as the Spring of 1915, he attended University of Texas at Austin. After completing three years of course work, he received a license to preach and was admitted on Trial in the Fall of 1915. On June 22, 1915, Jerry Lee Oliver married Pearlie Vell Morton, and thus "two lives were blended as if they were one." The newlyweds moved to the New Mexico Conference in the town of San Jon for one year, and then returned to Texas. Jerry was ordained Deacon November 18, 1917, at age 30, at Georgetown, Texas by Bishop James H McCoy, and on November 16, 1919 was ordained Elder at Waco, Texas by Bishop William N Armsworth. The couple had five children:William McCoy OliverRobert Morton OliverJerry Lee Oliver Jr.Elizabeth Jean Oliver HaddertonVelma Pearl Oliver Carpenter For the next thirty seven and a half years, he served as pastor of twenty-one Methodist Churches o

Présentation de l'éditeur

Within these pages, there are over 200 poems which were written during the thirty-seven years of Reverend Jerry Lee Oliver's Ministry. He loved his family and friends, and he spent time counseling families, and encouraging the youth in the Community. Many of these poems reveal his emotions at the time they were written, as he helped these families through their trials and tribulations. There are happy ones, - sad ones, - hopeful ones, and religious ones. In fact, many speak on 'Life's problems' and how to cope with them. He especially loved Christmas and wrote about all of the Holidays. Of the group of 200 poems that we now have,the oldest dated one was written in 1933, and there are 56 which have no date. He probably wrote at least one poem per year most years. His most prolific years of writing were the WWII years 1939 through 1945. It was in those years that he wrote about his concern for Service Men, - World Peace, - Freedom, - and the Brotherhood of Man. These concerns seemed to be of great importance to him at that time. Many of these poems are based of events of his life, such as "My Childhood Home,"-"The Pea Ridge School," -"When Tom and I Were Boys," remembering his happy childhood. Both "The Presence," and "My Call," reveal his feelings as a young man and his call to enter the ministry in 1914. Dad wrote about his own father, "The Farmer," who was a farmer for all of his life, beginning in the 1800's. He worked the land with a horse and a mule, from daylight until dark to provide for his family." In later years he wrote of his father in the poem "The Pilgrim at Sunset," and read it at his funeral. He wrote of his Mother in poems, "In Remembrance," "To Honor Mother," and "A Funeral Prayer." In "A Call and A Romance," he wrote of a young man at Tarleton College, who became a minister with his help and guidance, and the two were always close. "A Call and A Romance" is a story of Hayden Edwards and his wife, Jessie. And later, "That Friend of Mine" revealed

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1420814699
ISBN 13 
9781420814699
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Nombre de pages
296
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