Word: whitelocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States began observing on their highways an odd vehicle, no trailer but a house car, its sides as neatly clapboarded as a village church. It was a church, complete with folding pulpit and collapsible organ, built by a New Hampshire toy manufacturer for a Baptist minister named Herbert R. Whitelock. With his motherly wife Edith Sisson Whitelock, this man of God had spent many a summer preaching in parks, factories, on street corners and village greens...
Beginning this week, Preacher Whitelock planned to pack his wife and belongings in what he calls "the Chassis Church," take to the road for good. After a tour of northern New England the Whitelocks will head for the paradise of trailer folk, Florida. There they will put to full use a technique which has earned them some fame broadcasting as "Uncle Herb and Aunt Ede" over small New England radio stations. Brisk, 50-year-old Uncle Herb preaches the gospel to crowds attracted by Aunt Ede's singing, to her own accompaniment. Says...
After 20 minutes, when most preachers would have ceased, Preacher Whitelock was merely warming up to his subject, "Signs of the Times." When an hour had passed, Mr. Whitelock had no more than established his thesis: that Holy Writ contains prophecies of modern social, moral, financial, political, ethical and economic conditions. When two hours had passed, his patient congregation was still listening to quotations dealing with such subjects as heavy motor traffic (They shall justle one against another in the broad ways...
They shall run like the lightnings.-Na-hum, 2 :4). After two hours and a quarter, Preacher Vhitelock said: "Let us pray." His listeners professed not to have been bored. To them the service was a notable event, the 13th annual Two-Hour Sermon, which Baptist Whitelock had introduced in Chelsea as a revival from Puritan times...