D.S. al Coda: Go to the Sign of the Cross, Then proceed to the End

  Last week Lexington Baptist Church held our 4th Camp Meeting out in Leesville at the Spradlin's Pond- House facility.  We had about 75 Sr. Adults armed with copies of the 1956 Baptist Hymnal.  We ate supper and then sang hymn medleys and hymn requests for over an hour.  We sang the hymns that most of us grew up singing so many times, year after year, that the lyrics are still embedded in our minds.  Having hymn books, those who read music can sing the alto, tenor, and bass parts.   We could go acapella and experience the beautiful blend of different voices singing in harmony yet being unified by the rhythm and the text.     At these Camp Meetings, someone might request a song that has not been sung in church anywhere since the 1970s! It is rather interesting to point out that whenever people talk about singing the old songs, they are really only referring to songs that were written in the late 1700s like Amazing Grace and the 1900s like Victory in Jesus written in 1939.   When

After a three-year hiatus from writing this Blog, I have picked up D.S. al Coda once again.  I left off this blog site as I wrote a weekly column for the Lexington Chronicle since January of 2019.  I felt somewhat restricted from being able to write solely about the most important things in life to me--our Heavenly Father and the salvation we can have through Jesus Christ, His Son. I enjoyed the experience of writing for the paper and felt I should do so as my father, Rev. Bert Williams wrote articles for years for the Orangeburg T & D.  And I recently compiled and published a book called, "A Year of Sr. Living--52 articles form the Lexington Chronicle 2019-2021".  I would love for you to have a copy of this book.  It is on sale for $10 at this website: www.RestoringHisTruth.com . Postage is free and I will be happy to mail you a copy or simply sell it to you at Lexington Baptist Church. I enjoy writing.  I had a professor who said 3 words that I never forgot: “Be a write