Jon Gary Williams

Jon Gary Williams
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Tice Elkins vs W. A. Hearon (Freewill Baptist)
March 20, 1900
Alex, Oklahoma

I have just returned from Alex, Oklahoma where I met the great Freewill debater, Elder W. A. Hearon. Bro. R. Thompson had engaged him a few-nights' sermon about fashion but he and I hooked up on foot washing in the church, the name and the new birth. He was "dead easy" all the time. I am sure he will never meet another gospel preacher again. He is a very nice man in debate, never stooping to mud slinging until the last night when he called me a "Campbellite." I came alive then, and he took it back and apologized before he was allowed to go a step further in his speech. They don't put that over me.

A little while later his wife was very ill.

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