Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: "He was a man who was 24/7

about ministry," [Agniel] Samson said [of E.E. Cleveland].

But he was also a man with a famous sense of humor.

"There was always the expectation that if 'Cleve' beat you in golf, that you'd get a poem from him ribbing those whom he happened to beat," said Dr. Mervyn Warren, Oakwood University provost. "He was gifted with language."

It was a gift that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took note of when he attended one of Cleveland's tent meetings in 1954 in Montgomery.

from The Huntsville Times: SDA leader, teacher E.E. Cleveland dies at 88

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