Pastor Cecil Williams, who served the Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco for 35 years, tells of growing up in Texas. They didn't have electric lights in their house. They had two oil lamps with wicks that had to be lit daily. Once they were lit, a glass shade fit over the flame and they glowed.
Cecil's mother kept telling her children, "Ya'll clean the shade before you …
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