The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 2018 Page: 1 of 35
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Two legacies, 50 years later
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Boy preachers’ still sharing the Word
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LIKE THEIR FAMOUS MENTOR, Keebk-trained ministers devoted to saving souls.
BY BOBBY ROSS JR. | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
Evangelist Marshall Keeble preaches
in Abilene,Texas, in the 1960s.
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Marshall Keeble smiles from the cover of a vinyl record
of his sermons, including "There's Water in the Plan."
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In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. smiles as he learns that he
has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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n 1963, an 11-year-old named
Dewayne Winrow preached at
Southwestern Christian College’s
annual Bible lectureship in
Terrell, Texas.
The boy’s message resonated with
one notable person in the audience:
Marshall Keeble, the famous black
evangelist who baptized an estimated
30,000 people before his 1968 death.
“Brother Keeble came to the
stage, and he offered me immedi-
ately a full-time scholarship to begin
attending the Nashville Christian
Institute,” Winrow, now 65, recalled
M M arshall Keeble was calling
IB m sinners home at a 1939 gos-
I I pel meeting in Ridgely, Tenn.,
I W I when a young white man
approached him after the sermon.
The renowned black evangelist
reached out his hand, thinking this
was one more soul ready for baptism.
Instead, the man struck Keeble in
the face with a set of brass knuckles
and ran. The Church of Christ min-
ister recovered his balance and kept
encouraging the crowd. The meet-
ing’s organizers wanted to call police,
but Keeble told them not to, later
remembering, “I had to know how to
meet him, or I’d get hurt bad.”
Despite violence and threats from
white supremacists, Keeble never
wavered in resolve to share the Good
News with seekers black and white.
Fifty years ago, the world lost two
famous black preachers.
On April 4,1968, an assassin’s
See KEEBLE, Page 7
at the Reseda Church of Christ, the
San Fernando Valley congregation
he has served since 1975.
Winrow, the son of -----—----
a single mother, had
been baptized at age 9 |r
at the Bell and Farrall j — A
Church of Christ
in his hometown of
Shawnee, Okla.
The sixth-grader
moved to Tennessee
and became one of
Keeble’s “boy preachers” — stu-
dents who traveled with Keeble to
gospel meetings and delivered short
messages before he spoke.
“Brother Keeble’s thing was
preaching, and his thing was saving
souls and baptizing people,” said
Daniel Harrison, another of the for-
——mer boy preachers.
“Right now, many
A of us are still carry-
'll . ^n<g on legacy/’
B' added Harrison,
I senior minister for
| the Chatham-Avalon
Church of Christ in
Chicago for 50 years
and director of the
national Crusade for Christ since its
launch 39 years ago.
At the Nashville Christian Institute,
Harrison roomed with David Jones,
See BOY PREACHERS, Page 8
KEEBLE AND KING/ought
for ‘different things
in different ages. ’
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Tryggestad, Erik. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 2018, newspaper, April 1, 2018; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1509388/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.