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Originally Posted by OBW
As I said, I only recalled something giving the impression that some time-table had been moved up. It may be something of folklore. I couldn't say. But I got that impression from somewhere within the last two months and had never had that notion previously.
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We from Houston had no time table or were in a rush except for the families who had children in school. I did mention in my book that there seemed to be a race for Dallas. Actually it was from the other folks. I did not get into the details of how we found out. We had visited the couples who were with Gene Edwards several times. We had shared that some from Houston felt the Lord was calling them to move to Dallas. Nothing was hidden from anyone. We assumed we would all join together. The other two couples had become more and more distant toward us as we made trips to the area and began to look for housing. Once we dropped in on one couple on a Saturday morning. They were expecting us but we got there a little early. The wife let us in the apartment and the two brothers there sure acted funny. One of the Houston brothers whose initials are BB noticed a letter and envelop laying on the carpet behind the chair where he was sitting. It caught his attention. It was from Gene Edwards and the two or three sentences he read referred to his moving to Dallas and something about being there before the Houston group would be established. He handed the letter to the host brother who was very red faced. Turns out they then told us they had been corresponding with Edwards regarding their desire to practice the local church life and his moving there to head up the effort. Only thing, they had failed to tell any of us about their plan.
It seems their plan was to get Edwards and a few others there and declare they were the church in Dallas. Sounds like something that did develop under the LSM.
This race to be first was something none of us from Houston had been aware of. WL never urged me to move quickly in anyway. I spoke with him and corresponded with him during the summer. George W. did not get to Dallas until the late summer - early fall and was in no race to get to Dallas for the whole summer. I moved there in July. I do not remember when the first Lord's Table was as to me it was no big stake in the ground but a very normal occurance.
Edwards never came and the couples moved away.
The whole episode was very confusing.
Hope, Don Rutledge