From Mule Back to Super Jet with the Gospel

By Br. Marshall Keeble

Originally published in 1962, this is the fascinating account of Brother Marshall Keeble’s missionary journey to Africa with Brother Lucien Palmer in 1960, including a visit to the Holy Land, Palestine.

“This was Brother Keeble’s greatest missionary journey for the Lord, and he has made many journeys. On this trip he preached with great power. His influence was felt and it will live on in Africa, as he now has sons and daughters in the Gospel in that far away land, and through them the work of our Lord will continue.[…]

“With great joy the experiences had by Brother Keeble on this journey have been written, and he hopes you will find much pleasure in this narrative. May it cause you to have a great increase of faith to use the jet age to God’s glory in advancing his kingdom in every nation of the world.”—Lucien Palmer, Preface

• Language: English
• Publisher: Papamoa Press
• Release date: Jul 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781787207592

Br. Marshall Keeble

MARSHALL KEEBLE (December 7, 1878 - April 20, 1968) was an African American preacher of the Churches of Christ, whose successful career notably bridged a racial divide in an important American religious movement prior to the Civil Rights Movement. Born in Murfreesboro, TN to Robert and Mittie Keeble, both of whom had been slaves, his family moved to Nashville, TN around 1883. He began preaching in 1897 with the support and encouragement of his father-in-law S.W. Womack, and other preachers. In 1942, he helped found and became the first president of Nashville Christian Institute. At age 83, Keeble became a world traveler, touring Palestine and Nigeria, where he preached to large audiences and was made an honorary chief of one tribe. During his second trip he trained preachers and preparing for the construction of the Nigerian Christian Secondary School in Ukpom. The main administrative building at NCSS is named Keeble Hall in his honor. He was also instrumental in founding the Nigerian Christian Hospital in 1965. The same year he was presented with an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Harding University. He was also appointed a Colonel Aide-de-Camp by Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement, making Keeble the first African-American so honored in Tennessee history. He died in Nashville in 1968 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery.

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Text originally published in 1962 under the same title.

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FROM MULE BACK TO SUPER JET WITH THE GOSPEL

by

MARSHALL KEEBLE

With an Introduction by E. Lucien Palmer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

PREFACE 4

DEDICATION 5

FROM MULE BACK TO SUPER JET 6

REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 19

PREFACE

Marshall Keeble’s long dreamed about missionary trip to the Holy Land and Africa has become a reality. This event was wonderful and exciting in every respect—in fact, almost unbelievable. We were completely keyed up to it from the start. God prepared and blessed us in numerous ways. Many friends were backing us with money and earnest prayers; our families were standing with and supporting us, as they always have, and were willing for us to be absent from them in order to make together this great missionary journey. It seemed al-most that God had planned this trip, and I am most grateful for the opportunity it afforded me as his co-worker.

For Brother Keeble it was almost out of due season in that he was eighty-two years of age, but his strength was superb and in every way his energy abounded. He wanted to do this work and was always sure that God was with him. He climbed the hills of old Judea and Jerusalem and moved through Africa with the stamina of a man in the prime of life. He saw visions that will last as long as life.