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TITLE: "MY APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY"
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~~~~~ Very rare/scarce book !!! ~~~~~
AUTHOR: J. C. Bailey (John Carlos Bailey, 1903-2001)
~~~ See brief bio sketch below ~~~
PUBLISHER: Star Bible Corp., Fort Worth, Tx.
DATE PUBLISHED: 1975
BINDING: Hardcover
PAGES: 112
CONDITION: Very good. Text clear/clean. Ex-church library book with typical library markings. Previous owners name. Please email me with any questions you may have about this books condition or contents before buying.
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John Carlos Bailey
(1903-2001)
John Carlos Bailey was born on September 13, 1903. His father,
Thomas Ward Bailey, was a preacher of the Gospel in Ontario, Canada. His mother
was Edith (Cann) Bailey.
In the waters of Lake Huron, John Carlos put on Christ in baptism
in 1913. He preached his first sermon when he was seventeen, by which time he
already had a good knowledge of the Scriptures because of the emphasis placed
on the Word of God in the Bailey home.
Shortly before his eighteenth birthday, he travelled from his home
in Eastern Canada to Carman, Manitoba to attend a winter Bible training school.
The next summer he worked for the railroad in Ontario. At the end
of the summer he went to Bromhead, Saskatchewan to work in the harvest and preach
before returning to Carman for the second year of Bible school.
After finishing the two-year course, at the age of 19, he went to
Montana to preach in March of 1923. He travelled from community to community
preaching sermons each night in meetings that lasted a week or more in school
houses, homes and community halls in Montana and North Dakota. By the end of
1923, twenty had responded to the gospel after hearing his preaching and two
new congregations had been established.
That year he also met his wife-to-be, Myrtle Deane Buckallew. They
were married on January 3, 1924 and Myrtle was his faithful wife and companion
until she went to be with the Lord on July 25, 1997.
Until May of 1925, J.C. continued working with various churches
and holding gospel meetings in Montana and North Dakota.
He then went back to Ontario and worked with the Woodgreen
congregation until 1928, when he and his family moved west to Saskatchewan. He
continued holding meetings from community to community in schools or halls,
wherever people might attend. Many people obeyed the gospel who continued as
stalwart Christians for the rest of their lives. With other brethren he also
helped to organize and teach winter Bible schools during the thirties.
In 1940 J.C. and his family went back to Ontario for four years
where he worked with the church in Meaford. During this period J.C. took over
publication of the Gospel Herald, that had been started by Bob Sinclair. He
held gospel meetings in many different communities in Ontario and also in Quebec.
From 1944 to 1955 the Bailey family lived in Radville,
Saskatchewan. From there J.C. continued to publish the Gospel Herald and to
hold gospel meetings in the area. He was one of the first directors of Radville
Christian College, and also served as treasurer and head of the Bible
Department. In 1953 J.C. turned the publication of the Gospel Herald over to
Eugene Perry and Roy Merrit, although he continued to serve as an associate
editor.
In July of 1955 J.C. accepted an invitation to work with the church
in Carman, Manitoba. While at Carmon, J.C. and Myrtle adopted three girls, to
fill out their family from seven children to ten. Norman, Stanley, Ray, Roy,
Marie, John and Mavis, then had Carol, Debra and Margo as their new little
sisters.
In July of 1959 J.C. moved his family back to Saskatchewan to work
with the congregation in Moose Jaw.
On April 25, 1963 - a few months short of 60 years of age
when many men are thinking of retiring - J.C. set foot on the soil of
India for the first time and embarked on what was to become his greatest work
for the Lord. Myrtle and the three girls followed three months later. At that
time there were about 80 known members of churches of Christ in India, in what
was then Assam.
During the years that followed, the same knowledge of the
Scriptures, dynamic preaching, and burning zeal for lost souls that had
resulted in hundreds being baptized in all parts of Canada, was to result in
thousands being baptized in India. Within five years, more than 20,000 had been
baptized into Christ and hundreds of new congregations of the Lord's people had
been established. J.C. and Myrtle resided in India for nine years. After that
J.C. continued to make regular preaching trips to India.
Many others have contributed to the work in India through the
years. After fifteen years, the number of churches of Christ had grown to over
2000 and 180,000 had been baptized.
In November of 1988 J.C. made his 21st evangelistic trip to India
at the age of 85. He went again in 1990.
It is no longer possible to have any idea of how many are
presently assembling in India, but the number is probably around half a
million.
J.C. passed away on July 2, 2001 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan at the
age of 97.
(Information compiled by Roy Davison from "Forty Years a
Canadian Preacher" by J.C. Bailey, "Evidences of the Personal
Touch" by Myrtle Bailey, and from personal correspondence.)
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