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Wy. A. never got a cent from home education. Mone winter T bad but tae pair eocks to my name and wasbed out at night to wear next day,” he declared. “But before I married I had crossed the Atlantic ocean three times and traveled in jail the world's ecntinents except) It was actually in the middle of[ |; the Atlantic while on a trip to the Holy Land that be met the girl bef, was to marry in 1909. Their oldest ughter, Mary Elizabeth, died at e € and oldest san William Hed in an automobile accidént age 30. These losses were par- ty made up, bowever, for eanor (now . John FR. West Nashville) ml came along d@ then kater within a matter of miyutes of exch other, Thomas, Broo smeet, ant Marjorie arrived to piace the ‘Swifts as the only known |i “Methodist pastomh parenta of trip- ‘Hlets in the world? First Home Service W. A‘s first sermon was at his Abome church, Mount Carmel, near Murray, Ky. in 1896. Before re- tiring a decade ago he held many Spastorates, including alao chu: in Little Rock and Texzar : This is 2 2 photo of the Swifts’ triplet children, made when ‘the fee. Mavion, Gi, Sc Clair, trio graduated from Jackson city high school. for the Memphis Commercial Ap-jwith a PhD. degree. Now with a peal, he considered changing to/top-spot on the University of Aln- one of the nation’s biggest dailies!bama faculty, she gets back bere at a tripled salary but Swift ad-|more often than the other chil vised him to remain in Dixlg. Heldren to visit the family. did, and in Little Rock became a] The Swilts hosted me through great lay leader and Bible teacher/their big home “so cool in summer In =Asbury church. Bweift per- that we always sleep under blank- formed Alley's wedding ceremony,[ets.”” He has a vegetable garder pnd when he died a few years|(mostly beans and tomatoes now) 0, ™~ called to preach bisland in jovely flower beds, dahlia: ner are a specialty. Theré are encugt given away cr sold nearly all of] The Swift triplets, perent-like./beds in the big house “te slee} Ait, he recently counted more than} ire pdlaxing their own brilliantjseveral families.” and with tw 2000 volun lefi Too, he has al-/ rails, Born in Lexington, Ky..|kitchens, I got the Kea that mos ‘ways had a big correspondence] hey graduated together at Jack-lof the time it in open honse fo and -today values among keep-| jon (Tenn) nigh echool wunder|friends from everywhere. ere. Just fin y 4 Milleraburg, Ky. an editor ureh papers for 11 years, sel a endow two Methodist co es (Kentucky Wesleyan and thens, Ala}, and bad the dis iocticn of clearing several towns d-cities of the “filth of alcoho! and indecent shows ané = carni- This man accumulated what y have heen the iargest person- library ef any fellow-preacher in gine country and though he bad ® es m personal letter to him Sir King Edward VIL, three from ClEig George VI, and oné from], Bine® Queen Elisabeth IT ri ed. P. Alley A Start 1 benefacior of the late J. P. G\Alley Br., creator of Hambone's F meditations who grew.io be one Blof America’s greatest commercial artists), Pastor Swift is very proud While bs was preaching al (Asbury Methodist in Little Rock, wey, Wek wl Ward, e to bim ‘or welp. Swift got a good bim into his home fer ee ard slept in the same bed with him for two years, gave bim oney to take an art course by tne each but up to two, three, andles thelr own guest bouse. more, all with exceptional records.|Philosophy en World = - Thomas attended Lambuth!] Strolling in the garden (Jackson, Tenn.), the University ofiwho has been a student of Tenn., and Chio State, and is nowjernment aod world RB greduate chemical engineer in|boyhood, gave me his Houston, Texas. Margaret. gred-jof current conditions, © — uated from -Wesleyan (Macon.| “The worid, since T was Ge.}, Scarritt in Nasbville, andihas improved very fast materially en from Columbia in New York|but constantly drifted morally,” bi ity when its president was Gen-[said. “But if even yet Amerier ral Eisenbower. Later ghe at-|really tarned to God im practicn & nded the Universities of Michi-)well as theory, we can sverconx , California | and Peiping. China. communism and lead t the missionary fajinto @ great spiritual wutold 3