#Elizabeth Edwards

[wutbju]

I do not believe that graduates “regret” that they could no longer attend Vespers.

The Sunday afternoon vesper services at Bob Jones University are so unique and impressive that they serve as a widely known hallmark for the school. Since spiritual truths can often be more forcefully impressed on hearts and minds both audibly when presented both audibly and visually, dramatic techniques are combined with letter-perfect artistry in these services.

With elaborate staging equipment, lighting, costumes, and background, the emotional impact of the correlated message in recitation, drama, and music is heightened. High quality is the fundamental aim of those who are responsible for these programs, and shoddy performances are not tolerated.

Students and faculty members who participate in vesper services practice their parts weeks in advance. Each quartet number or choral rendition, each piano or voice solo, each recitation or dramatic performance is carefully checked by a faculty member of the particular department before final approval is given for vespers.

Many different phases are involved in the production of these services. The divisions of speech, cinema, and music provide the speakers, actors, technicians, and musical part of the program, as well as taking care of the settings, lighting effects, costuming and make up required. And the directors make sure that these all fit together into an integrated pattern.

A vesper program may include on one particular Sunday a brass choir; the recitation of several pieces of inspiring religious literature; a mixed quartet; a piano or organ solo; a brief drama; and a choral number of a well-known oratorio.

Many of the original arrangements for the vocal and instrumental numbers are prepared by students and faculty in the music department. Often the dramatic presentation is written by a student or faculty member.

PLANNED AHEAD

The themes of the vesper services are planned at least a semester in advance. Each semester there are four directors in charge of the programs. During the present semester the directors are Mrs. James D. Edwards, Mrs. Alan Waite, Coretta Johnson and Robert Pratt, all faculty members in the speech department.

Among the themes being presented this semester are: "Success" (Voices of Regret and Success); "The Bible" (with costumes); "The Judgment" (Jer. 8:20); "Thanksgiving"; "Faith of Our Fathers" (Contend for the Faith); "Responsibility" (Duty); "Submission" (Godliness with Great Contentment); "Patriotic"; and "Words" (Idle words, words fitly spoken, words that have changed lives). An oratorio will be presented on November 26.

Since the vespers at the university are both inspirational and cultural, they attract hundreds of visitors each Sunday from the Greenville area, as well as from other places. People from other states visiting in Greenville over a weekend often attend. Although the service starts at 4 p.m. each Sunday during the school year, visitors should plan to get to the Rodeheaver Auditorium by 3:30 in order to be sure to get a seat.Graduates of BJU who have gone out across the nation often expressed regret that they were no longer able to experience the blessing of attending one of the university's unusual vesper services. They wished that some of the material and programs used for these services were available for them to use perhaps on a smaller scale in their local churches.

Thus a book containing some of the vesper services and entitled "Sound His Glories Forth" was compiled by two members of the faculty, Elizabeth Edwards and Gladys Besancon. It was published by Baker Book House in 1965. The programs in it can be used for churches and schools.

[artsformyvoid]

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[womanoncesaid]

You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails. ― Elizabeth Edwards, Resilience: The New Afterword

[poltrack]

#ThrowbackThursday - January 5, 2008

#ThrowbackThursday - John McCain and Elizabeth Edwards - Jan 5, 2008

John McCain and Elizabeth Edwards Fifteen years ago we were in the midst of the Presidential Primary season with a parade of candidates visiting our state. On this day I was able to see both John McCain and Elizabeth Edwards in Peterborough, NH. This is the advantage of holding the first Presidential Primary in the nation. Sadly that might became a thing of the past in 2024 if the parties change…

[evermined]

[glorianas]

Edward and Elizabeth observed the festivities separately, much to Edward’s dismay. Writing to his sister from the manor of Tittenhanger near St Albans on 18 December [1546], he lamented, 'Change of place, in fact, did not vex me so much, dearest sister, as your going from me. Nothing can happen more agreeable to me than a letter from you […] I hope to visit you shortly […] as my chamberlain has reported to me. Farewell, dearest sister!’

Many of Elizabeth’s earliest thoughts were of the brother she adored, who had ‘four teeth, three full out and the fourth appearing’ by the summer of 1538.  She liked giving Edward gifts, such as a ‘shirt of cambric of her own working’, which she presented to him at New Year 1539 – an extremely personal gift that not only showcased Elizabeth’s skill with a needle but also displayed her thoughtfulness. 

Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown, Nicola Tallis

[arty-e]

Another silly six the kids thing

Orignal from taskmaster

[theroyalsandi]

British Royal Family - 192-year-old Jonathan the tortoise meeting members of the Royal Family during his 142 years living on St Helena

1947 - King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret

2024 - The Duke of Edinburgh

[grelleswife]

Plunging feet-first into the abyss.

[eve-to-adam]

Elizabeth of York, fashion character design. Mourning outfit, c. 1482.

[isabelleneville]

Alicia Vikander as CATHERINE PARR, QUEEN OF ENGLAND

(Firebrand Trailer)

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

REBECCA FERGUSON as Elizabeth Woodville and MAX IRONS as Edward IV in "The White Queen" (2013)

[womanoncesaid]

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act. ― Elizabeth Edwards, Resilience: The New Afterword

[captainsamta]

Something I had done years ago on A4 size paper. I think I skipped a few due to lack of space. Kings and Queens of England (after king Henry IV)

[leonisandmurex]

The Windsors + Spring

[kathrynhoward]

THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)