2.00.02 - Forward

FOREWORD

Freed-Hardeman University appreciates Joe Hardeman and Martha Foy for reprinting Volume II of Hardeman’s Tabernacle Sermons. The University will make these available to the brotherhood and it will place these into the hands of young men enrolled as a resource to help them become better gospel preachers. Brother Hardeman’s sermons have been preached by others to the strengthening of the church and we hope the present generation of preachers will also study these sermons and present these messages for the up building of the kingdom.

Oh, how we need brother Hardeman now! With the fragile condition of the brotherhood, the possible rupture in this decade, and the actual abandonment by some of the restoration plea for primitive Christianity," we sorely need the truths of the volume restated and "shouted from the housetops" ere it is too late. The church will survive because it is the eternal Kingdom, but we seek to save as many brethren as possible from going into another apostasy. The clarion call of brother Hardeman’s sermons is to return to New Testament Christianity. We continue this worthy goal at Freed-Hardeman University.

E. Claude Gardner, Chancellor Freed-Hardeman University