A Fundamentalist of Fundamentalists

About the Book

About this book, many valuable lessons are taught and may be learned if the reader has a very high appreciation of the scriptures, especially of someone who attended Bob Jones University to study the Hebrew and Greek in depth immediately after he was saved. Essentially, the reader must be receptive to tearing down the walls of traditional teaching and lifting up the openness of what the Bible actually says. If so, Ross Holmes, missionary, teacher, pastor’s up-to-date articles he has penned for everyone, but particularly students and lovers of the Bible will prove rewarding riches indeed His writings get down to the Scriptural “nitty-gritty,” NOT ‘what does Brother So-and-So teach?’ There are twenty-seven chapters of Bible principles the Lord intends for us to inquire into. It is our privilege to put on our thinking caps and ride along on this exciting journey with many stop-overs to search the Scriptures ourselves, to add our knowledge to the different curves and stops. The lessons begin about “The enemies of God, Armageddon, Flesh Opposed to God, Three Disobedient Prophets, Satan’s Methods, Riches, the Heavens, Hell, Gehenna, the third Heaven, and much more. We who have known Brother Holmes personally have observed his “the Lord comes first” humble life. He was saved at twenty-one, was never religious by his own words, attended church occasionally, but never prayed, never thought of God. With the result that he came to the Lord without any baggage of traditional teaching. He devoured the Scriptures unimpaired. He came to them with no preconceived set ways. He was open to “What saith the Lord.” It goes without saying, he wasn’t perfect, but his overpowering determination that others should study their Bibles and join him in his quest for knowing his destination because of God’s Great Love for everyone was fully illuminated. The well known verse, John 3:16, was the first verse he believed: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Praise the Lord.

About the Author

Imagine, almost eighty-six (born October 1928, Pauline Elizabeth Wilson) and happily experiencing peace and joy about my decease, whether it is by the rapture or whatever the Lord has for me. At seventy-five, a fall off my bicycle nearly finished me up. Since that didn’t work, this last year should have a cancer operation and broken hip surgery. Thank the Lord I don’t worry about where I’m going. That was settled fifty-nine years ago when I realized I was a sinner and that the Lord Jesus Christ was made sin for me that I might be made the righteousness of God in Him. O happy day. My sport days, tennis, swimming, golf, were over in my late sixties. During my teen years, my father, older brother, and I played lots of tennis, usually on our lighted tennis court behind the house, playing often after midnight with neighbors and friends. Having graduated at Morehead High School in 1945, my days at Elon College (now a university) in Burlington, North Carolina, were cut short after my freshman year by getting married to Joe W. Chandler Jr. at eighteen in 1947. Then, my husband was accepted at the new school of pharmacy in Laramie, Wyoming. Two months after our marriage, we took off. We had a ball for three years although near poverty (Joe had three jobs; I was secretary to Dr. David O’ Day, head of the pharmacy school) and loving it all. Joe graduated in 1950, and we were elated to be back home with our several-month-old son, Joe W. Chandler III, even then a real cowboy. We happily settled in our hometown (now Eden, North Carolina). My most important happening in my entire life was when I was saved on July 3, 1955. I was a new creation in Christ Jesus; old things passed away, all things became new, and I dearly love the Lord Jesus that He so loved the world (John 3:16). The Lord miraculously added two girls, Beth and Lisa, to our family tree when our son was fifteen. Joey graduated at the University of South Carolina on a football scholarship, a certified public accountant. His sisters, Beth and Lisa, one married after two years at Jerry Falwell’s Christian College, and the other graduated in nursing at Bob Jones University. Being without my husband these last four years has been very sad and hard, at the same time, rejoicing. The Lord is certainly a wonderful help in time of need; however, Joe and I were married sixty-three years. The Lord has helped me tremendously, directing my writings and keeping me busy. We now have grand, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. The ones of us who are saved serve a wonderful risen Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He lives, we live also. See you in heaven.