CATHOLICISM AGAINST ITSELF ~ O C LAMBERT SIGNED! ~ HB + CATHOLICISM JAMES BALES

Description: *** Please visit my eBay Store for many more great selections *** TITLE: "CATHOLICISM AGAINST ITSELF""VOLUME I"Plus: "Catholicism and Coercion by James D. Bales"***** Please see pictures for Table of Contents *****~~~ SIGNED COPY - See pictures ~~~ AUTHOR: O. C. Lambert (see biographical sketch below) PUBLISHER: O. C. Lambert DATE PUBLISHED: 1954 (appears 1st edition) BINDING: Hardback book & Paperback booklet PAGES: 295 & 28 CONDITION: Very good condition. Clear & clean text. Previous owners name. NOTES: Please email me with any questions you may have about this books condition or contents before buying. *** Please visit my eBay Store for many more great selections ***Orlando Clayton Lambert 1890-1972Biographical Sketch On The Life Of O.C. LambertOrlando Clayton Lambert was born September 16, 1890, of very poor parents in the poor hills of Alabama, only 25 years after the devastating Civil War. In fact, his mother was born three weeks before the assassination of President Lincoln.There were no schools worthy of the name, and no market for any surplus from the farm, so as a lad he could see little prospect for escape from severe poverty. For some reason, at a very early age, he acquired a passionate love for books.When he was 17 years old he secured a teacher's certificate, though at the time he had never attended a grade school, or sat at a desk. Since his earliest memory he had wanted to preach, but teaching was the only thing that he could see to do. He knew no one more experienced to advise him, and no one with means to whom he could appeal. He spent 12 years teaching at a starvation salary.About the only book the family had at first was a large family Bible, and he learned to love it. When he became a ploughboy he would paste a page from a cheap New Testament on the plow handle and he memorized a great portion of the New Testament while he worked. He began to lead singing for gospel meetings while yet a teen-age boy trying to learn from the older preachers before he gained confidence enough to try his own wings. It never entered his mind that a man could spend all his time preaching the gospel and live, for the preachers that he knew best were farmers whose family made the living while he baptized hundreds and planted churches.For several years after he began preaching he would teach the short term of school in the winter, "make a crop" in the Spring, preaching on Sundays, and holding meetings in the Summer. No one thought enough of his preaching to send him out to preach, or to send for him, so he went! He preached in school houses, residences, under brush arbors, and under the trees, where the church had never been planted. Many times he would go into a sectarian neighborhood, work up a singing school, stay in the homes where people were not members of the church, but his main purpose was to hold a meeting at night. After half a century he looked back with great pleasure to see that in almost every place where he helped plant the church, others had watered, and the result was good churches over a wide area. Those years were fruitful in the converts made, but most of all for the spiritual growth it afforded him. But there was no money in it, he frequently had difficulty paying his fare back home, to begin teaching again. Financially he was in a poor circle.His struggles continued unabated as he finally attended college. First at Highland Home College (long ago discontinued), then Nashville Bible School and Peabody.In those early years, when a beardless boy began to preach in a sectarian neighborhood he was invariably challenged by older and more experienced denominational preachers. He looked back with pride to some of those debates. Knowing that these doctrines would have to be met, he bought all the denominational books that he could find regardless of the sacrifice he had to make to buy them. This helped in defending the truth.Before he had preached many years he moved into a section where 65 percent of the people were Catholics. He had for years been accumulating their books. He wanted to know of a certainty what they taught and what they had done and were doing. He remained in this area for 16 years, and most of his converts were from the Catholic Church. The church was very weak in that area, but now it is thriving. Many of the elders and preachers were among his converts. Volumes of interesting stories could be written concerning those converts.Life had been so hard that he dreaded the prospects of poverty in old age, so he established a printing business. Though he had opposed the Catholic Church vigorously, one of his pleasant surprises was that some of his best customers were Catholics. He established this business for several reasons. First, he wanted to be able to print this material which he had gathered through so many years, which brethren in whom he had great confidence insisted that by all means it should be printed. He wanted to keep his three boys near him, and to have some means of living with dignity and honor in old age.His health, which had never been robust, was steadily declining. In 1941 a series of misfortunes overtook him and quickly wrecked and brought to nought his carefully nurtured plans. First, his business burned, then a few months later his faithful wife, who was apparently in excellent health, died suddenly, leaving him with a 13 year old son. Soon thereafter he suffered a series of nine serious operations which kept him in and out of the hospital for four years. All of his life's savings were gone and he could see no reason to even hope to be well again.One year after the death of his wife, he married again, which proved to be one of his life's greatest blessings. He married Sallie Russell. She nursed him back to health, bouyed him up when he was discouraged, and in every way proved to be "a help meet" for him. Looking back on his 56th year, so dark, it seemed almost miraculous that nearly 20 years later his health had continued to improve year after year and he was enjoying more vigorous good health than almost anyone his age.By the time he reached his 60th year his health had so improved that he began to believe that his long interrupted dream of putting his material into print could be realized. So, beginning at the age of 62, he spent two years, working early and late, putting the manuscript for "Catholicism Against Itself, Volume 1 " into shape. When he was 64 he had gathered more than 1,600 names and addresses of brethren, mostly preachers, who said they wanted his book. After he had it printed and had a printing bill for about $6,000, he sent out notices, and to his consternation more than 1,200 of them never replied. Twelve hundred preachers had moved.He was now 64 years old! He could think of no possible way of paying this debt, except to travel among the churches, lecturing on this important theme and selling his book. For eight years he traveled almost constantly, visiting 40 States and most of the provinces of Canada. He lectured in more than a thousand churches.To add to his financial difficulties when he launched out on his lecture tours, he moved out of a church owned home, and had to provide some place to live. He borrowed a thousand dollars to make a down payment on an old home that no one else would have. "During the years of my travels my wife superintended the remodeling of our old house and built a library for my books, and a workshop, while she taught school to keep the wolf away from the door," he recalled.There was a great deal of important matter that could not be crowded into Volume 1 of his book, so, stopping his travels ' he decided that if he ever wrote and printed Volume 2, he would have to get busy at it. When he checked up on his finances he was $7,000 in the red. He had worried no little about what would become of his library after his passing. Knowing the Catholic doctrine of Mental Reservation, he knew they would deny every quotation he gave unless the books were available. This was the reason that when every resource was exhausted due to his misfortunes, he kept the books, even though he had offers to buy them. Several colleges asked for them. When Abilene Christian College learned of his financial difficulties they offered to pay off his indebtedness in order to secure his library.This relieved his immediate need, but during the three years he spent doing the fabulous amount of research in writing Volume 2, he had nothing besides a Social Security check to live on. There were three churches that gave him what altogether amounted to $40 per month. It was difficult to live on this amount, but, without it Volume 2 could not have been written.Volume 1 and Volume 2 of "Catholicism Against Itself" have long since been printed and reprinted and widely circulated through the nation. In addition to these two volumes, Lambert authored three other books: "Rumbling From Rome," "Russellism Unveiled," and "Catholicism Against Itself-Abridged."O.C. Lambert died March 5, 1972, at Winfield, Alabama. He was survived by his wife, Sallie; three sons, Horace M. Lambert, O.C. Lambert, Jr., and Hillman Lambert. Funeral service was held at the Church of Christ in Winfield, Alabama, with John Stephens, E. Claude Gardner and Basil Doran officiating. Burial was in Gu-Win, Alabama, with interment in Memorial Garden Cemetery. -In Memoriam, Gussie Lambert, Shreveport, LA, c.1988, pp.167-170 keyword church of christ, christian, christ, christian church, disciples of christ, church history, sermons, church poetry, christian poetry, RESTORATION MOVEMENT

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