{"id":1119,"date":"2014-02-28T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2014-02-28T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:58:50","slug":"gospel-meeting-advertisement-postcard-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/02\/28\/gospel-meeting-advertisement-postcard-1926\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Meeting Advertisement Postcard, 1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Produced for the moment, consumed, then cast aside.&#8217;\u00a0 So said Claude Spencer, bibliophile and archivist-extraordinaire of the Restoration Movement.\u00a0 Spencer had in mind the ephemeral&#8230;advertising cards like the one below, leaflets, bulletins, Sunday School lessons.\u00a0 I think of Spencer each time I run across something so fragile.\u00a0 I wonder which researcher will find in it a small piece of their puzzle.\u00a0 What a wonderful experience it is to connect a researcher with the materials necessary for their project.\u00a0 What a wonderful experience indeed to connect users with their past&#8230;where seemingly insignificant ephemeral, momentary items like these can open doors of understanding, reflection, even inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><em>Below: Postcard sized advertisement for John T. Lewis&#8217; preaching at McMinnville, Tennessee, October 1926.\u00a0 From this card we learn that Lewis preached twice daily.\u00a0 Gospel Meetings in this era could last two or three weeks or longer and often resulted in dozens of baptisms and additions to the local congregation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/John-T.-Lewis-gospel-meeting-card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1120\" alt=\"John T. Lewis gospel meeting card\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/John-T.-Lewis-gospel-meeting-card.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Produced for the moment, consumed, then cast aside.&#8217;\u00a0 So said Claude Spencer, bibliophile and archivist-extraordinaire of the Restoration Movement.\u00a0 Spencer had in mind the ephemeral&#8230;advertising cards like the one below, leaflets, bulletins, Sunday School lessons.\u00a0 I think of Spencer each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/02\/28\/gospel-meeting-advertisement-postcard-1926\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4fxGI-i3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}