Title: Sunday Night at 7:30
Organist: Darryl Eisele

Some called it "Evangelistic Service," some "Evening Service," and for most churches, it began, not at the later-popular 6:00 o'clock, but at 7:30PM. The earlier hour in those days was for the young peoples' groups called Christian Endeavor, or Christ's Ambassadors, or Crusaders or an acronym like BYPU. These were training groups, where we youngsters played the otherwise adult roles of leading, singing, praying, and sometimes preaching. That's where we learned the choruses like "What Though Wars May Come," "Only to Be," "Spirit Of The Living God," and "Christ For Me."

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Title: Softly & Tenderly
Organist: Darryl Eisele

"Softly and Tenderly" was written by Will Thompson, a successful Chicago businessman and popular song writer. He was a close friend of evangelist Dwight Moody, who used this hymn frequently in his meetings. When Moody was on his deathbed, he told Thompson, "Will, I would rather have written 'Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling' than anything I have been able to do in my whole life."

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Title: Tabernacle Hymns
Organist: Darryl Eisele

These are the songs of Billy Sunday, of Paul Rader, of Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles E. Fuller, of Ira Sankey and P. P. Bliss.  They are the songs of the evangelical church, of the Methodists and the Baptists, songs of the Pentecostals and of Billy Graham (now there's one you know!).  They were the songs that were sung in junior church, in youth meetings and a Wednesday morning prayer meeting.

This was the first album recorded.

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