Saturday, June 7, 2008

random awesomeness

On the first friday of every month, the downtown stores here in my town stay open later into the evenings and serve refreshments to whoever comes in. "First Fridays" is one of those little things that make living in such a small town bearable. (The upcoming Blueberry Festival is another one).

Last night the wife and I were killing another Friday by walking around and visiting the downtown stores (most of which are antique stores) when I came across what I consider to be a gem. You may have to bear with me, because not everyone seems to be as excited about this as I do.

Lying in the old book stack in one of the stores was a first edition printing of "Wholly Sanctified," by J.O. McClurkan. This book was printed in 1895, and it certainly shows. Due to the aging, the book looks like it was printed on brown paper bags as opposed to white paper.

For those of you that may not be aware, McClurkan was the founder of Trevecca Nazarene University- as well as one of the major players in the Holiness Movement at the turn of the century that led to our denomination. He also served many years as pastor at Nashville First at the beginning of the 20th century. This guy definitely makes the Nazarene Hall of Fame whenever they decide to create such a group- surely there is room in our fancy new headquarters, right?