Staff sample

Excerpt (3 minutes) from tape T1 in Collection 434, oral history interview with Jack Frizen (missionary whose evangelist father worked with Rader) recorded by Paul Ericksen on August 9, 1990.

FRIZEN: My father became an evangelist. Well, I better go back....

ERICKSEN: Yeah, I was going to ask. You said he was a chiropractor.

FRIZEN: Right [laughs]. He...the story that I've received was that in a street meeting...he came from a Christian family but evidently he was away from the Lord. And in a street meeting with Paul Rader, who is one of the evangelistic luminaries downstairs in the [Billy Graham Center] museum here. Paul Rader had great influence on dad's life. And whether he was actually converted for the first time or made a...a real commitment to the Lord during that time, I'm not sure, because it just never came up. And I knew that Paul Rader had a great influence on him because Dad closed the doors to his office and joined Paul Rader, first at Moody Church, when Paul Rader was pastor. Now I don't know if he was on the staff there because I've always heard that he joined the staff at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. And so that was after Paul Rader left Moody Church and started the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. And so that's...Dad became song leader, office manager and just general staff member there at the Tabernacle. And continued with music because he had a good voice and was a soloist as well as a song leader. And that kept on in my very early years. And I can still remember, as a young child, the sawdust in the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle and sitting on the benches during the services and.... I don't remember being dedicated but afterwards I was told by my parents that they had dedicated me as a three year old with Paul Rader officiating and that he had dedicated me for missionary service. And that never came up during my early childhood until sometime after I had already committed myself for missionary service. Then they told me to reinforce it but they didn't...they didn't....

ERICKSEN: Burden you with it.

FRIZEN: Burden me with that [laughs] and add that on. In fact, I think the...the first recollection that I have of missionaries was from....

Article by E. L. Frizen from the November 1927 issue of World- Wide Christian Courier. Click to see a full-page enlargement.