Joe Beasley Memorial Singing (multi-book)

Concord Primitive Baptist Church
Winfield, Alabama
Saturday, December 12, 2015 and Sunday, December 13, 2015

Used both days: The Sacred Harp, 1991 edition. Used on Saturday: The B. F. White Sacred Harp (Cooper Book), 2012 Revision, The Christian Harmony, 2010 edition, The Primitive Hymns: Spiritual Songs and Sacred Poems (Lloyd's).

Saturday, December 12

The 21st annual Joe Beasley Memorial Singing was called to order by Richard Schmeidler. Marlin Beasley offered the morning prayer.
Leaders:
34b (SH), St. Thomas - Richard Schmeidler
66 (SH), Jordan (First)
474 (SH), Mount Desert
30t (SH), Love Divine - Marlin Beasley
40 (SH), Lenox
47t (SH), Primrose
108t (SH), Weeping Sinners - Becky Briggs
313t (SH), Concord
318 (SH), Present Joys
3 (LD) - Sarah Beasley and Linda Hellerich
333 (LD)
411 (LD)
75 (SH), I Would See Jesus - Jack Pate
145b (SH), Sweet Affliction
569b (SH), Sacred Throne.

RECESS

Richard Schmeidler brought the class back together by leading 49b (SH), Mear.
Leaders:
48t (SH), Devotion - Loretta Whitman
142 (SH), Stratfield
143 (SH), Pleyel's Hymn (First)
33b (SH), Abbeville - Chug Beasley and Ruth Nix
354b (SH), Happy Land
72b (SH), Bellevue
74b (SH), King of Peace - Anne Steel
108b (SH), The Traveler
148 (SH), Jefferson
346 (CH10), Star in the East - David Carlton
341 (CH10), The Lone Pilgrim
332 (SH), Sons of Sorrow
623 (LD) - Warren Steel.

LUNCH

Henry Schuman led 32t (SH), Corinth, to bring the class to order.
Leaders:
131 (CH10), Will You Meet Me? - Dorothea Maynard
137 (CB), Liberty
384 (SH), Panting for Heaven
400 (SH), Struggle On - Warren Steel
273 (SH), Milford
272 (LD)
155 (SH), Northfield - Cora Sweatt
47b (SH), Idumea
312b (SH), Restoration (First)
117 (CH10), Angel Band - Henry Schuman
137 (CH10), Antioch
184 (CH10), Where We'll Never Grow Old
206 (CH10), Prayer Meeting
98 (CB), Glory Shone Around - David Carlton
460 (SH), Sardis - Becky Briggs
39b (SH), Sharpsburg - Jack Pate
519 (CB), My Mother's Gone - Sarah Beasley
111b (SH), To Die No More - Chug Beasley and Ruth Nix
434 (SH), Fillmore - Anne Steel
475 (SH), A Thankful Heart - Richard Schmeidler
120 (SH), Chambers - Dorothea Maynard
571 (CB), Not Made With Hands - Marlin Beasley
495 (SH), The Midnight Cry - Warren Steel
146 (SH), Hallelujah - Cora Sweatt
142 (CH10), The Solid Rock - Henry Schuman.

Announcements were made. Richard Schmeidler led 46 (SH), Let Us Sing, as the closing song.
Jack Pate dismissed the class with prayer.

Sunday, December 13

The Sunday session of the Joe Beasley Memorial Singing was called to order by Richard Schmeidler leading 28t, Aylesbury.
Marlin Beasley offered the morning prayer.
Leaders:
84, Amsterdam - Richard Schmeidler
176b, Blooming Youth - Marlin Beasley
176t, Ragan
318, Present Joys - Henry Schuman
426b, Jasper
457, Wayfaring Stranger - Don Keeton
317, Jackson
436, Morning Sun - Betty Baccus
499, At Rest
36b, Ninety-Fifth - Darrell Swarens
350, Nativity
336, Eternal Home - Becky Briggs
234, Reverential Anthem
78, Stafford - Gravis Ballinger
76b, Desire for Piety
549, Phillips Farewell - Gary Smith
99, Gospel Trumpet - Linda Hellerich and Gary Smith.

RECESS

The class was brought to order by Richard Schmeidler leading 535, Shawmut.
Leaders:
159, Wondrous Love - Cora Sweatt
68b, Ortonville
45t, New Britain - Will McGuire
81b, Cookham
406, New Harmony - Sarah Beasley
145b, Sweet Affliction
126, Babel's Streams - Richard Mauldin
168, Cowper
81t, Beach Spring - Bunk Beasley and Hailey Beasley
72b, Bellevue
103, Animation - Henry McGuire
148, Jefferson
61, Sweet Rivers - Chug Beasley and Ruth Nix
33b, Abbeville
425, Golden Streets - Drew McGuire
29t, Fairfield.

Darrell Swarens and Richard Mauldin conducted the memorial lesson. Darrell told of how he started Sacred Harp singing because of the music. However, as time passed, it became about the people. He told of a dream he had recently. He was at a singing in a concrete block church, surrounded by B.F. White, E. J King, Demus and Robert Aldridge and many others who have passed since he began singing: Josie Hyde, Raymond Hamrick, Bud and Sammie Oliver, Edith Tate, Jeff and Shelbie Sheppard, and Harrison Creel to name just a few. Darrell was sitting on the bass front bench next to Harrison Creel. He leaned over and asked Harrison if this was Heaven. Harrison replied, “No, this is Alabama.”

Darrell then read the following names of the sick and shut-ins:
Kermit Adams, Willodean Barton, John Beasley, Anne Chalker, Velton Chafin, Alice McGuire, Brenda Peña, S.T. Reed, Ottis Sides, Toney Smith, Lavoy Smith, Corissa Sweatt, and Floy Wilder.

Richard Mauldin read the following list of names of the deceased:
Dawson Adams, Robert DuPree, and Lloyd Humber—Alabama; George Easley and Elder Charles Pouten—Mississippi; Loraine Bayer—Ohio; Oliver Kindig-Stokes—Pennsylvania. Richard and Darrell led 111b, To Die No More.
Seth Holloway led 236, Easter Anthem.

LUNCH

Henry Schuman brought the class to order by leading 145t, Warrenton.
Leaders:
276, Bridgewater - Amber Davis
434, Fillmore
218, Mount Pleasant - Dorothea Maynard
361, Loving Jesus
217, Ballstown - Earl Ballinger
177, The Christian's Flight
331, Jester - Steve Adams
101t, Canaan's Land
472, Akin - Lisa Geist
273, Milford
49b, Mear - Ricky Beasley
47b, Idumea
306, Oxford - Larry Ballinger
208, Traveling On (in memory of Lloyd Humber)
571 (CB), Not Made With Hands - Patsy Kelley and Dorothea Maynard and Becky Briggs
235, Long Sought Home
283, Sabbath Morning - Danny Creel
498, The Resurrection Day
335, Return Again - Sarah Beasley and Marlin Beasley and Bunk Beasley and Chug Beasley and Cora Sweatt and Becky Briggs and Patsy Kelley and Dorothea Maynard and Ricky Beasley
340, Odem (Second)
442, New Jordan - Henry McGuire
507, Sermon on the Mount - Darrell Swarens
30b, Prospect - Drew McGuire
491, Oh, What Love - Don Keeton
490, My Shepherd Guides - Richard Schmeidler
192, Schenectady - Amber Davis
43, Primrose Hill - Richard Mauldin.

Announcements were made. Richard Schmeidler led 146, Hallelujah, as the closing song.
Earl Ballinger dismissed the class with prayer.

Chairman—John Beasley; Vice Chairman—Richard Schmeidler; Secretary—Henry Schuman.