A bed sheet with text and/or artwork used as a visual aid to a preacher's sermon. Comprised of nearly 40 Bible references and short summations thereof, this particular sermon chart describes the subject by restating Biblical terminology. There appears to be little organizing motif inherent to the chart beyond this recitation of Biblical texts and little interpretation of those texts. After this array of evidence is a single exhortation with an emphatic conclusion: "Beware----Prepare!"

A bed sheet with text and/or artwork used as a visual aid to a preacher's sermon. This particular sermon chart attempts to trace throughout Scripture the idea that God, through the Bible, has revealed to mankind an explicit pattern by which to live, and therfore, anything not specifically authorized in Scripture, is forbidden. Provenance uncertain. Probably part of the G. Dallas Smith Collection.

Printed line drawing of A. Pickerill, visible from the chest up, wearing a three-piece suit with a pocket watch. His hair is thinning, and he has a prominent beard that reaches down to his chest.

Printed line drawing of H. R. Signor, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a three-piece suit with a bow tie.

Printed line drawing of J.C. Myers, visible from the shoulders up, wearing an double-breasted overcoat. He was a prominent beard and mustache.

Printed line drawing of J. H. Lawson, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a three-piece suit and a bow tie. He has a handlebar mustache.

Printed line drawing of J. M. Ratliffe, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a three-piece suit with a bow tie.

Printed line drawing of J.R. Shuff, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a three-piece suit with large lapels. He has thinning hair with a prominent beard and sideburns.

Printed line drawing of N.T. Caton, wearing a three-piece suit with a bow tie. His hair is parted to the right, and he has a mustache and beard.

Printed line drawing of O. Newcomb, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a shirt with buttons up the front. His hair is parted to the right, and he has a prominent beard with sideburns and a mustache.

Printed line drawing of R.W. Officer, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a dark three-piece suit with a string bow tie.

Printed line drawing of S.L. Barker, wearing a three-piece suit with a pocket watch. His hair is slicked back and parted to the left, and he has a mustache and beard.

Printed line drawing of William Hayden, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a suit jacket and a dress shirt with a high, dropping collar.

A bed sheet with text and/or artwork used as a visual aid to a preacher's sermon. This particular sermon chart is very likely designed to attract attention and pique interest, and the "little red string" becomes a metaphor for the importance of precision obedience. The central motif "marks of identity" is especially important to the preacher; his wish is that his hearers "hang up blood line in our life, Eph. 1:7." Just as Rahab (see Joshua 6:18) obeyed using "not white [or] yellow [but] red string," so modern believers must likewise precisely obey God in the matters detailed on the chart's right column.

A bed sheet with text and/or artwork used as a visual aid to a preacher's sermon. Using John 3:3-8 as a key text the preacher uses this sermon chart to discuss physical and spiritual birth, noting that a "coming out of" water is as natural for spiritual birth as it is for physical birth. Accordingly, for any "new birth" to be valid, a person must experience baptism following faith, repentance and confession. Further, just as physical birth does not produce "full grown" persons, so spiritual "babes" are to grow by obedience to law.

A bed sheet with text and/or artwork used as a visual aid to a preacher's sermon. This particular sermon chart begins with God's instruction to Abraham to teach his children. The preacher then elaborates upon the Biblical imperative to instruct and indoctrinate children in the way of God. He spends considerable time in Deuteronomy and Proverbs and cites disastrous examples from the Bible when such instruction went unheeded. He concludes the sermon by citing similar passages from the epistles. He refers to [Robert G.] Ingersoll, noted 19th century agnostic as a counter-example of the influence parents have on children. His emphatic conclusion, lettered large and in red, asks, "Who will be Leaders of Tomorrow?"

Portrait of Batsell Baxter, who was the 6th President of the Abilene Christian University from 1923 - 1932. Visible from the shoulders up, Baxter wears a dark-colored suit with a polka dot tie.

Printed drawing of Ezra Cramblett, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a dark-colored shirt. He has a prominent beard that reaches down to his chest.

Portrait of Mr. H. C. Darden, the 2nd president of Abilene Christian University. Visible from the shoulders up, Darden wears a dark-colored suit and tie with a pocket watch chain.

Portrait of James F. Cox, who was one of the presidents of Abilene Christian University. Visible from the chest up, Cox wears a dark-colored suit and tie with round glasses.

Portrait of Jesse P. Sewell, who became the president of Abilene Christian College in 1912. Visible from the shoulders up, Sewell wears a dark-colored suit and a grey tie with frame-less glasses.

Portrait of Jesse P. Sewell, who became the president of Abilene Christian College in 1912. Visible from the shoulders up, Sewell wears a dark-colored suit and a grey tie with frame-less glasses.

A bed sheet with text and/or artwork used as a visual aid to a preacher's sermon. Upon describing several 'little things' in the Bible and from nature, this sermon chart motivates using metaphors of size. Employing these metaphors, the preacher cites several Biblical examples of the great impact of small or seemingly insignificant actions. One contemporary reference is to the 1947 explosion at Texas City, Texas. The preacher closes the sermon with an invitation to embrace simplicity though the "world stumbles" over it.

A bed sheet with text and/or artwork used as a visual aid to a preacher's sermon. This particular sermon chart illustrates a sermon in four points. The main thrusts of each are: Jesus was "really dead," the tomb was empty, if the resurrection was a "vision or hallucination," and the many witnesses of the life and ministry of Jesus. The final point transitions into an appeal based on the evidence presented. Affirming from the four points that Jesus' "right to authority" is unquestionable, the preacher finally "declares our faith" urging hearers to "...obey him...live for Him and be Ready."