This is a true gem. I can't tell you how fortunate I was to get this accomplished. I didn't even realize what I had until after I received. This was originally on a reel tape. I didn't even have a working reel to reel player to play it and had to have this professionally rerecorded. It is mind blowing to have this piece of Church history.

This sermon was preached by Robert Welch sometime in 1954 at the Wendell Ave. Church of Christ in Louisville, KY. To date this is the oldest sermon I have put on Word and Works. But not only that, this is the first sermon ever preached at the Wendell Ave. Building, which at that time was not even completed. It is remarkable that I have this sermon, and am more than happy to share it with the world at this time.

**As a side note - as I enter these old sermons it is fully up to the listener to judge whether or not a sermon tells the truth. It is incumbent on the listener to judge what he hears and study the subject with due diligence. II Tim. 2:15

A sermon preached at the High School Road Church of Christ By Jimmy Tuten. I do not know the date at this time. (I did have to remove quite a bit of noise from the tape and also it was very distorted.) Enjoy.

**As a side note - as I enter these old sermons it is fully up to the listener to judge whether or not a sermon tells the truth. It is incumbent on the listener to judge what he hears and study the subject with due diligence. II Tim. 2:15

The late Herschel Patton preached this particular sermon on July 7th, 1986 at the High School Road Lectureship in Indianapolis, IN. Maybe you can learn something from this. I'm putting his obituary below for informational purposes.

Herschel Erwin Patton, 93, of Huntsville, Ala., passed away Dec. 1, 2010, at his home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, at Spry Funeral Home, Huntsville, Ala., followed by a graveside service at 1:30 p.m. in Booneville, Tenn. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, at the funeral home. Officiating will be Jackie Bradford, Don Patton and Jeff Archer. Mr. Patton, born in Grayson County, Texas, preached the gospel of Christ in Churches of Christ for more than 60 years in Alabama, Tennessee and Texas. In his later years, he also served as an elder with Jordan Park Church of Christ for more than 25 years. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Sarah Wheeler Patton, and a brother, Marshall E. Patton. He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Reba Ashby Patton; three sons, Gary N. Patton and wife, Billie, of Decatur, Ala., Charles E. Patton and wife, Sylvia, of Lake Waccamaw, N.C., Steve A. Patton and wife, Pam, of Temple Terrace, Fla.; two sisters, Pat Lasher, Montgomery, Texas, and Peggy Busby, of Eunice, N.M.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

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**As a side note - As I enter these old sermons it is fully up to the listener to judge whether or not a sermon tells the truth. It is incumbent on the listener to judge what he hears and study the subject with due diligence. II Tim. 2:15