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The card read "Old Time Tent Revival." I have been humming "Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show" (Neil Diamond) all week. My mind conjured up visions of snake handlers and live chicken sacrifices. Then I saw where it is being put on by the Bible Baptist Church of Alva. Scrap the visions of dancing in the aisles.

Being Baptists, I may find food or drink, but what I really think I will find at 6:30 every evening is five nights (Sept. 25–29) of good gospel singing, and a good time learning about the Lord. It is being held where I used to have a shop, 127 E. Oklahoma Blvd. Pack up the babies,...