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"Mr. Baptist"
A Biography of Clarence Walker
By Evangelist Bill Beeny, 1955
CHAPTER ELEVEN
"A LAST VISIT TO 808 AURORA AVENUE,
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY"

      As I finish the last chapter in this book I will then pack my clothing and prepare to drive back to my home in St. Louis, Missouri. But before I leave town I will pay one last visit to 808 Aurora Avenue, the home of Brother and Sister Walker. Come with me on this visit, I want you to see and feel the atmosphere of the Walker home before we leave the city.

      As you turn into the drive you will find that the Ashland Avenue Baptist Parsonage is a simple, small one story brick home where Clarence and Glo have lived for years. Most folks usually go in the back door, and usually it isn't necessary to knock. As you enter the door you will be heartily greeted by this dear couple. The home is simply furnished. Brother and Sister Walker through the years have j racticed sacrificially living in order to set an example to all that we should be good stewards.

      One thing you will find in the Walker home is a spare bed room. They believe and practice hospitality. It is a home that anyone could feel perfectly at home in. They have no "stylish ways" as Brother Walker would express it. Sister Walker is the best of cooks and hosts. Even though the long hard years of relentless service have made their inroads into their health you will find that they still go to every extreme to make their guests feel perfectly at home. This is not only practiced by Brother Walker but by the whole church. Ashland Avenue has the only Bible Conference I know of where free beds are provided in the homes of the people and meals are provided free at the church. A real sample of "southern hospitality."

      It is with great regret and somewhat a feeling of emptiness that we shake hands with the Godly couple and prepare to leave 808 Aurora Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky. But oh, the joy when one day we shall meet about His throne, never to part again. What a blessed reunion that will be. There all the readers of the A. A. B. will be able to see, meet and love "Clarence and Glo," not through the printed page, but then face to face.

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