Stamps Quartet News (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 1, 1961 Page: 10 of 16
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McGinty Family
Of Waco, Texas
Write
(Carl, Sudie’and Don)
We have attended a number of
good conventions since our last re-
port to the News.
The first Sunday in May we at-
tended the Brazos County Conten-
tion at Bryan, Texas. It was good
to see our good friend Mr. Frank
Stamps and to hear him sing that
wonderful song, “Maybe It's You,
Maybe It's Me.” We have heard lots
of singers use that song but in our
opinion Mr. Stamps is tops with that
one.
The second Sunday we drove over
to Hubbard to their afternoon sing-
ing. This was Mothers Day and the
crowd was small but the singing was
good.
The third weekend we were in the
Limestone County Convention.Mr. &
Mrs. Loyd Flanary, our good friends
of Waco, drove us over there. Mr.
Amon Cook is president of this con-
vention and knows how to run a good
one.
The fourth Sunday was our home
singing here in Waco. We had the
new book, Singers' Joy, and the sing-
ing was real good. We believe Sing-
ers' Joy is going to be one of the
best books we have sung from in
years.
The first Sunday in June we were
in the Travis County Convention, and
again Singers' Joy was used and
everyone seemed to be pleased. The
singing sounded wonderful.
The next week we left on our vaca-
tion, and how we enjoyed the cool
weather up in the Smoky Mountains.
One thing that impressed us so
much in our travels was the Natural
Bridge of Virginia. Man can spend
many hours building large and won-
derful bridges over our country but
none can compare to the Natural
Bridge of Virginia that our Lord
made. It would be worth anybody's
time to go up there and see it.
Our son Don enjoyed the sightsee-
ing tour of Washington D. C. and,
of course, the ball game that was
played over in Baltimore.
On our way home we took the
southern route and visited with some
of our friends, Mr. & Mrs. Speight of
Birmingham, Alabama. We had a
wonderful visit with these good
friends.
On Saturday we stopped off in
Terrell, Texas. for the East Texas
Singing Convention. We feel this was
one of the best sessions that we've
had the pleasure of attending. Would
like to say thanks again to such won-
derful people as Mr. & Mrs. Childs,
Mr. & Mrs. Bruton and Mr. & Mrs.
Griffin of Terrell for being so nice
to us.
We could not close without saying
something about the big singing at
Page (10)
the close of the Stamps Quartet
School of Music. We really enjoyed
it and think it was the best one we
have ever attended.
So long for this time.
It's Good to Find
Bedrock
By A1 .Cravens
Quite often it is possible to note
the building of a new hospital, school,
church or other large building in
most any commun-
ity in which we
may be traveling.
In preparing for a
large building, one
will notice they
are not content to
merely level the
ground, then start
building. They dig
and scoop until
they come to solid
earth, or, if possi-
ble, to bedrock for
a substantial foun-
dation.
It occurs to me that we as individ-
uals find it necessary to dig past the
layers of vainness and frivolity with-
in our make up in order to set some
goals or to meet the challenges that
help to distinguish us from a vege-
table.
When one begins to “sort out” the
things that he would want to go with
him into the next world it is amazing
how many things about us are slant-
ed toward our physical comfort and
guaranteeing our “three-square-
meals-a-day,” much like the cultiva-
tion of a select cabbage.
This realization was brought to me
more vividly as I did the research on
the family tree of the Craven family
since they came to America from
England about 1740. As I gather in-
formation that can be documented for
a family booklet, I practically re-live
with them the days of the skirmishes
leading up to the Revolutionary War.
Some did great things . . . some
were obviously fine cabbages.
As the population of the Colonies
expanded, making it necessary to
fight the Indians west of the Cumber-
land Gap from North Carolina to
Powells Valley, Tennessee, I reflect-
ed, “What would I have had to hang
on to that would have gotten me
through those trying times?” Then
as the great unknown regions, now
known as West Tennessee, Kentucky
and Missouri, were being explored and
settled, what would be the motivating
force to cause boys and girls to go in-
to the ministry under conditions such
as those? The stalwarts that distin-
guished themselves from cabbages
did many fine things that have multi-
plied many times in accomplishment
in the Lord's work, even to present
generations. We can only assume that
others were so engrossed with their
individual problems—real and imagi-
nary—that they dropped from view
at the end of their individual life
span.
I suppose there might have been
July, 1961
those who amassed great wealth from
a material standpoint, but it seems
that those who are remembered most
are those who took time to make
community problems their problems;
who worried as much about whether
they would harvest a crop of souls at
the revival meeting as much as
whether they would have a nice wheat
crop.
As the wagon trains moved to Ray
County Missouri during the 1830's
where they settled around what is
known as Excelsior Springs, I just
imagine that the temptation became
great to become fat^ and contented
now that they had rich land and a
measure of security, but there were
those who realized that “man does
not live by bread alone,” but must
have the kind of food that feeds the
soul, giving strength to combat the
sin of covetness, greed and distrust
that seems to be ever present.
Yes, I can see where, in the nine
generations of the Craven family
there were those who had to dig
through layers of vanity in order to
find the bedrock on which to build
character. In so doing it was found
that character really isn't stablized
character without Christ. Those who
took Christ with them went far.
These who didn't existed only for their
generation.
We are having the first of our an-
nual Craven-Lawler Home Coming
Reunion this August 6th up in Wright
County Missouri, a few miles north
of Hartville and we are carrying out
this theme, as hundreds of people will
pour into the community to spend the
day renewing acquaintances and
praising the Lord in song. Strangely
enough, the little ^ country church
where we are finding “bedrock” is
the New Home Church, large enough
to accommodate only a fraction of
the crowd, but the large public ad-
dress system will be there, ,and the
spirit of the Lord will be there as des-
cendants from a dozen states sing and
worship together.
I feel that as my brother Rupert
of Lawrenceburg, my brother Fritz
of Fort Worth, and my brothers Wil-
bur, Robert, Vernon, Ellis, Luther
and Marvin, who are pastoring
churches in Parsons, Tennessee;
Mansfield, Missouri; Dunnegan, Mis-
souri and Aurora, Missouri, all get
together to form quartets, we won't
be singing as high falutin' talent but
as a group of country boys who found
the Lord at a little community scarce-
ly heard of fifty miles away. Maybe
in doing so we have found the “bed-
rock” of humility that the Lord needs
before He can “build on us.”
Within the scope of this two hun-
dred and twenty years it seems there
is a corralation between the major
events that transpire and the revival
movements that gave men the themes
for gospel songs and gave preachers
the inspiration for a sermon. “If we
find “bedrock” before we write a
song, it will live to bless future gen-
erations. The publishers will not have
to apologize for the shallow content
of our songs, that they are taking
the blame for, if we do this.
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