Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Lady Book Favorite - MEB Jones

 I loved this page more than other. I felt that my great-great grandfather was speaking to me.

                                                                THE WISE OLD OWL



Monday, March 31, 2025

Lady Book Notes - MEB Jones

I didn't spend much time with these notes, but once again, I had to make copies because THEY ARE SO OLD! c. 1910

I titled them Lady Book because of the logo on the cover. 









Sunday, March 30, 2025

List of People MEB Jones Mentions

 I decided to make a list of the people he had listed.  Many had addresses.  These people may or may not give us clues about M.E.B.

 W. H. Evans
Binger, Okla, Caddo County, RR No. 1
Lives 4 miles South of Binger on the Rock Island R.R.
Binger is a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 672 at the 2010 census. It is the headquarters of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, who were settled there in the 1870s.
 
W.E. Walden, Thackerville, Okla.
google search reveals that W.E. Walden was the father of Asa E. Walden,  went to Love County, Oklahoma close to Marietta (which would be near where M.E.B.'s son, Burwell lived)  from Collin County, Texas. in 1900. Asa served in the Legislature of Okla for six years, practiced law, District Judge, member of the Methodist Church of Marietta, friend of the common man, a copy of this resolution was sent to the Historical Society of the State of Oklahoma, a copy to the Historical Society of the State of Texas, and a copy to the family of Judge Walden.
Respectfully submitted,
B. W. Jones, J. W. Dixon, C.W.Cameron,J.S. Batson, C. C. Wilkins,O. E. English, W. J. Williams
THE BAR OF LOVE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA.(Committee)

Saturday, March 29, 2025

MEB Jones Random Notes

 Random Notes Part 3
pages 4-5

 Page 4 (back) 

Difference between sin and crime.  God can not punish Sin in this life. Judgment falls upon all alike. These are not punishment. Sin cannot be judged at Death because there is no judge. Guide? and witness are both necessary to a fair trial. Cannot be at death because we are to live on.

 Page 5 (front)

Unbelief, the great obstruction to Christ's work. 2 All things in general are possible to God. But it is to him that believes as to particulars ??? I may not have correct translation

 Depravity not only weekness but inclined to evil  it is positive   Hence yea must be born again.





Page 5 (back)  what does it mean to be born again?
the whole stream of Humanity is corrupted by sin   Dr. Gambrell
Google Search http://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/gambrell.j.b.by.truett.html
finds a James Bruton Gambrell on the Baptist History
By George W. Truett, D. D.
Biblical Recorder, 1932
"Life Stories of Great Baptists"
A few dates: Born, l841; Converted, 1856; American Civil War, l861-1865; Ordained, 1867; Editor Baptist Record, 1877; Work In Texas Begins, 1896; Editor Baptist Standard, 1910; President Southern Convention, 1917-l921; London Conference and European Tour, 1920; Died (May 29), 1921.

Friday, March 28, 2025

Coo Coo Ca Choo

                                       

Wild About Texas: Mourning Dove

There are things that stir your memory.  Sometimes it’s a song, a place, or a special recipe, but for some reason, you are transported back into your past evoking strong feelings. I’m very much a nature person, and yesterday my memory was stirred by a sound…the sound a dove makes. I would call Mother every Sunday and she would often have her house open or even talk on her remote phone from her porch. She lived on a street named Mourning Dove, and the Mulberry trees in her backyard were often filled with dove. They would coo and coo, and I could hear them when I visited with her both, both when I visited her home in Abilene or visiting with her on the phone.

I had sometimes mused that it sounded like the Beatles song “I Am the Walrus”…goo goo g’joob,  But it was way better known from the movie “The Graduate” and a song sung by Simon and Garfunkel’s,  “Mrs. Robinson”.

Only here recently have I said that it sounds like the dove are saying coo coo ca choo. So yesterday when I was on my own back porch, a dove began to coo. Derek was with me and heard me say, “I love you, dovie.” (because they were making me feel close to Mother).  And in a few minutes he said, “ I love you, too,” because to him, that is what he could hear them saying in return.

 Well, this morning, I looked up this string of nonsense words…and in the urban dictionary, the meaning is derived from “Finding Nemo” and I connected with the urban meaning given…

“Everything is all right. No worries.”

Red Book Sermon Notes - MEB Jones