Young County Texas Archives - ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE LECTURESHIP MEMORIES

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ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE LECTURESHIP MEMORIES

EARLY LECTURESHIP PERSONALITIES

R.C. Bell
E.W. McMillan
C.M. Pullias

THE FIRST LECTURE HALL
From the beginning of the Lectureship through 1928 all activities were scheduled in this
"chapel hall" of the administration building. Returning from their preaching 
appointments shortly after midnight on January 28 - just one month before the 1928
Lectureship - Homer Hailey and Paul Southern discovered the fire. The alarm was 
quickly sounded and a valiant flight put forth, but before daylight the leaping
flames had comnpletely destroyed the old building.

There were seven hunder of the wooden opera seats including the three-sided balcony
above the lower floor.

EARLY LECTURESHIP PERSONALITIES
Hall L. Calhoun
F.L. Young
Cled. T. Wallace
G.H.P. Showalter
Batsell Baxter
F.L. Rowe
A.R. Holston

SPEAKERS FOR 1921 AND 1923
Among the 1921 speakers were administrators Sewell and Speck, and the A.C.C. men
who gave more speeches than any other, G.C. Brewer.

The 1923 speakers included: G.A. Dunn, Sr, E.W. McMillan, B.F. Rhodes, A.O. Colley,
Oscar W. Smith, J.P. Sewell, W.D. Campbell, J.F. Cox, W.L. Swinney, F.B. Shepherd
W.D. Bills and Carl Etter.

THE 1922 LECTURESHIP
These ex-students of David Lipscomb College met at Abilene to enjoy the fellowship
of the 1922 Lectureship

Here are twelve of the sixteen men who delivered major addresses at the 1922
Lectureship.

EARLY LECTURESHIP PERSONALITIES
G.C. Brewer
James F. Cox
F.B. Shepherd
Jesse P. Sewell
Henry Eli Speck
George A. Klingman
G. Dallas Smith

1925 AND 1932
Six of the speakers of the 1925 program were W.M. Davis, Silas E. Templeton, 
Wilbur H. White, A.E. Walker, John T. Hinds and R.O. Kenley.

A large group of visiting preachers at the Lectureship in 1932.

1927 CROWDS BREAK ALL RECORDS
Twelve major speakers in 1927 were these: Jesse P. Sewell, W. Claude Hall,
W.A. Kercheville, W.D. Campbell, Carl Etter, C.R. Nichol, John T. Smithson, 
R.L. Whiteside, W. Don Hockaday, R.C. Bell, R.R. Brooks, and the principal lecturer,
Hall L. Calhoun.

Probably the largest audience to gather in Texas in the history of the Restoration
Movement, more than 2,000 crowded the "old gymnasium" to hear Calhoun who had just
resigned under controversy at Transylvania.

PREACHERS AT THE 1927 LECTURESHIP
Above are ex-students of Abilene Christian College who attended the 1927 program.
Below is a group of sixty-four preachers who assembled from seven states.