Ephemera of Daniel Paul Rader

Brief Description

Newsletters, sermon manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs, pamphlets, photo- graphs, negatives, brochures, a taped sermon, slides, thesis materials, etc., which document Rader's life and ministry. The material deals mostly with his radio work and the organizations he founded, including the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Additional material includes materials gathered about him for a planned biography, sermons of other preachers who spoke at the Tabernacle, newsletters and magazines published by Rader, newspaper clippings and articles about Rader, reports about mission activities around the world supported by the Tabernacle. For more information, please see guide.

Restrictions

The materials in Folders 3-1 through 3-4 may not be copied without the written permission of the Director of Scotty's Castle, Death Valley National Monument, Death Valley, CA.

The materials in Folder 3-5 may not be copied without the written permission of the Federal Archives and Record Center, Chicago, IL

The materials in Folder 3-6 may not be copied without the written permission of the Federal Radio Commission Records, Record Group 173, National Records Center, Suitland, MD.

Full name		Daniel Paul Rader, commonly called Paul
Birth		August 24, 1879, in Denver, Colorado, USA
Death		On his way home to California from a preaching tour in England, he became ill and died July 19, 1938, of carcinoma. He was buried in Glendale, California.
Family
	Parents	His father, Daniel L. Rader, was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as had been his grandfather and great-grandfather. Later he became editor of the Pacific Coast Advocate. His mother, Laura Eugenia Marmaduke Rader, was from Shelbyville, Missouri.
	Siblings	Fourth of ten children, including brothers Ralph, Lyell Mayes, Eugene, and Luke and sisters Mary and Kathryn (later Kathryn Hawthorne).
	Marital Status	Married Mary Caughran on June 21, 1906
	Children	Pauline C. (later Mrs. Pauline Griffin and still later Mrs. Pauline Noll), born 1907; Willamine M. (later Mrs. C. O. Miller), born 1908; and Harriet E. (later Mrs. Steen Carlson, later Mrs. Joseph Kisler), born 1916.
Conversion		In 1888 while talking with his father after attending a revival meeting in Cheyenne, Colorado. He suffered a crisis of faith in college when he began to doubt the literal truth of the Bible and eventually resigned from the pastorate in 1909 because of a lack of faith. He experienced a recommitment to the Christian faith while on a business trip in new York City, ca. 1912.
Ordination		September 21, 1904 in the Congregational Church
Education
	ca. 1897-1899	Attended University of Denver
	1899-1900	Attended University of Colorado, earning a reputation as a football player and boxer.
	1900-1901	Attended Central College in Fayetteville, Missouri, USA, where he also coached and played football
	1901-1902	Student, football player, director of athletics at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
	1901	Was an original founder of the Beta Kappa fraternity at Hamline University
Career
		As a boy would often accompany his father on preaching tours, singing hymns before the sermon began.
	ca. 1895	Went on his first preaching tour of small towns in Wyoming
	1900-1901	Attended Central College, Fayetteville, Missouri, USA, where he also coached and played football
	1901-1902	Student, football player, director of athletics at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
	1902-1904	Taught and coached at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA
	1904-1906	Pastor of Maverick Congregational Church, East Boston, Massachusetts, USA
	1907-1909	Pastor of the Holladay Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon. Resigned because of a growing lack of conviction in his faith and preaching
	1909-1912	Worked as a boxing promoter and then started an oil service company
	1912-1914	Caretaker and eventually assistant pastor at the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) Tabernacle under E. D. Whitside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
	Ca. 1913	Served as song leader and assistant at several evangelistic meetings around the United States led by A. B. Simpson, founder of the CMA.
	1914	Became full-time itinerant evangelist. Led a campaign in Toledo, Ohio.
	February 3, 1915	Accepted a call to become pastor of the Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He continued to hold evangelistic campaigns in other cities around the United States. His energy, vivid preaching style, and unorthodox ways of bringing people into the church began to bring him nationwide attention.
	November 7, 1915	The Moody Tabernacle was opened to serve as the site of the church’s evangelistic program in the city.
	1919-1924	Upon A. B. Simpson’s death, Rader becomes the second president of the CMA.
	1920	Toured CMA missions in Asia.
	1921	Rader left Moody Church in September, partly because he was unable to convince the leaders of the church that they should devote more energy and resources to evangelism. There was also a feeling on the part of the executive committee of the church that he spent too much time on other projects, such as CMA work. There was also some fear that he might change Moody from an independent church to a CMA church.
	1921-1922	Rader led various campaigns in southeastern United States
	Spring 1922	Founded World Wide Christian Couriers to serve as the corporate base of his ministry. Albert Johnson, a Chicago businessman, was Rader’s major financial supporter and continued to be so for the next decade.
	June 3, 1922	Broadcast from the Chicago municipal radio station from city hall for two weeks and broadcast over other stations at irregular intervals for the next three years.
	June 18, 1922	Steel Tent Evangelistic Campaign began in Chicago at the corner of Barry, Clark and Halsted. It was intended to run until Labor Day, but Rader decided to continue it permanently as the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. The Tabernacle was not a church as such, there was no membership. Rader was the predominant influence, although he recruited a talented staff including Merrill Dunlop, Lance Latham, R. O. Oliver, Clarence W. Jones, and others. It was intended to be primarily a preaching center, with services scheduled, at least in the early years, so as to allow people to go to their own church and then attend the Tabernacle. For many of the thousands who attended, though, the Tabernacle was their only church. Rader himself continued to hold evangelistic campaigns in many cities around the United States.
	September 17, 1922	First missionary rally at the CGT. By 1932, the Tabernacle would be supporting 192 missionaries around the world.
	April 26, 1925	Rader began regular radio broadcasts over station WHT (owned by Chicago mayor, William Henry Thompson). Rader agreed to provide fifteen hours of programing ever Sunday, including preaching by himself and other and music from the CGT staff.
	December 1925	First issue of the National Radio Chapel Announcer appeared, a glossy magazine that focused on the ministry of the CGT and work it supported. The title was soon changed to World Wide Christian Courier.
	January-March 1926	Rader filled the pulpit of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, California, USA during the absence of Aimee Semple McPherson.
	May 1926	CGT bought land at Lake Harbor, Michigan, for a summer camp ground. The camp opened in June and then each following year there were a series of summer events that drew large numbers of people from Chicago and the surrounding area. After this camp was sold, it became Maranatha Bible Camp.
	September 1927	Rader reached agreement to broadcast over WJBT on Sundays, using the WBBM transmitter.
	1928	Tabernacles started with assistance from Rader in Toronto, Canada, (Oswald J. Smith) and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Luke Rader)
	August-December 1929	Rader traveled around the world to preach in twenty-two cities and visit missionaries supported by the CGT. He visited to China, Japan, India, Palestine, France, and England.
	April 28, 1930	The Tabernacle Breakfast Brigade radio program carried by twenty-six stations for seven days a week. The arrangement proved too expensive and was canceled by summer.
	August 17, 1930	The Tabernacle ended its arrangement with WJBT, but continues to broadcast a few hours each week over a variety of stations until 1933
	November 2, 1930	Rader began a second world trip for preaching and visiting missionaries. Stops included Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, India, Singapore, Java, Bali, Borneo, the Philippines, China, and Japan.
	May 4, 1931	World tour ended in Chicago.
	1932	World Wide Christian Couriers established as a network of small Bible study clubs across the country that train people in grass roots evangelism. By the end of the year, there were fifty clubs in Chicago and sixteen tabernacles in other cities (which Rader had helped start and were associated with the CGT) were also starting clubs.
	Ca. June 1932	Paul Rader’s Pantry formed to gather surplus food from farmers who could not sell it elsewhere and can it for needy families. By the end of the year, the CGT claimed that the Pantry has fed 41,000 families, including 100,000 children.
	October 8, 1932	The Courier, an eight-page newspaper, began publication. It replaced the much more elaborate World Wide Christian Courier. Because of declining funds, the Tabernacle’s publications became smaller and cruder over the next two years until they altogether.
	October 1932	Albert M. Johnson, who had bought the land the Tabernacle stood on in 1927, had lost his fortune at the beginning of the Great Depression and could not longer make the payments. Rader signed a note taking over the payments. Programs at the Tabernacle had to be curtailed and several staff left go.
	February 12, 1933	Rader traveled to Los Angeles to preach at the affiliated tabernacle there and to deal with the financial debts of that organization. Rev. Clarence Ericksen was to preach at the CGT in his absence. Because the creditors of the Los Angeles tabernacle were suing it, a California judge forbade Rader from leaving the state until a satisfactory solution had been found.
	April, 1933	Because of the debts of the World Wide Christian Couriers, Rader decided the organization had to declare bankruptcy and the Tabernacle was severed from it. Rader resigned as pastor of CGT and was succeeded by Ericksen.
	Summer, 1933 and 1934	Rader led evangelistic meetings at the Chicago World’s Fair.
	May 1935	Bankruptcy of World Wide Christian Couriers resolved in court and assets divided among creditors
	1935-1936	Rader became pastor of the Fort Wayne Gospel Tabernacle in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. He continued to hold evangelistic meetings in various cities.
	1937	Rader went on a preaching tour of Great Britain which was cut short by the illness that ended in his death
Other significant information
	Rader himself was an enormous personal influence on many Evangelical leaders of the next generation. His style, his aggressiveness, his charisma, his entrepreneurship, his eager use of all the newest means of communications remained vividly impressed in the memory of such people as Percy Crawford, Peter Deyneka, Merrill Dunlop, Howard Ferrin, Charles Fuller, Torrey Johnson, Clarence Jones, Howard Jones, Lance Latham, and Oswald Smith, among others.
	Rader was the author of numerous pamphlets and tracts, as well as God’s Blessed Man: Soul Stirring Sermons (1922), ’Round the Round World : Some Impressions of a World Tour (1922), Harnessing God : Messages with a Method, the Way to "Abounding Life" for Spirit, Soul and Body, the novel Big Bug (1932) and Life’s Greatest Adventure (1939, posthumously)
	Rader also was the author of several popular hymns, including “Alive Again,” “Old Time Power,”“ Jesus Satisfies,” “I’ve Found the Way,” “Only Believe,” “Whosoever Will May Come”

[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]

The material in this collection, consolidated by the Archives, was gathered from several different sources, including Rader’s family members and co-workers, and therefore has no organic organization as a whole. Such form as exists was imposed by the processor. The files are arranged alphabetically by title and the material within each folder is arranged chronologically, wherever possible. Included in the collection are scrapbooks, sermon manuscripts, copies of Chicago Gospel Tabernacle publications, Moody Church and Fort Wayne Gospel Temple newsletters, photos, audio tapes, a video tape, and miscellaneous items relating to Rader's career and to attempts to write a biography of him after his death.

Series: I. Paper Records
Subseries: A. Material from Rader’s lifetime; B. Material about Rader compiled after his death
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1899-1988
Volume: 5.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 1-10
Geographic coverage: United States, China, India, Ireland, England, Palestine
Subjects: American Protestant Fundamentalism, Evangelicalism, and Pentecostalism; methods of mass evangelism; use of current technology in evangelism; American Protestant foreign missions in the 20^th century; (Daniel) Paul Rader’s life, ministry and influence; the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle; Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s; American sermons
Notes: As can be seen, the archivist has divided the documents into this collection into two groups: those which more or less date from the time of Rader’s ministry and those which were gathered together after his death. Sometimes this was done to create scrapbooks about his life, sometimes it was done to gather sources for a biography about him. Or about the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle.

Subseries: IA. Material from Rader’s lifetime
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1899-1938
Volume: 3.6 cubic feet
Boxes: 1,2,8,9,10
Type of documents: Sermon transcripts, handbills, magazines, newsletters, correspondence, pamphlets, hymnals
Correspondents: J. Oliver Buswell, Clarence Jones, Floyd Johnson, Moody Church executive committee, Paul Rader
Notes: There are only a few pieces of correspondence in folder 1-1 and a few more in folder 9-2. However, they cover many events in Rader’s life. Among the subjects covered are his health as a young man; his part in founding the Beta Kappa fraternity; the resignation of his associate pastor at Moody, E. Y. Woolley; his relationship with his friend and principal financial supporter Albert M. Johnson; Rader's leaving Moody Church and the growth of ill feeling between him and the leaders of that church; Rader’s presidency of the CMA; his service as a trustee of Wheaton College during the presidency of Charles Blanchard; and the resignation of C.L. Eicher as missions secretary of the World Wide Christian Couriers.

The collection contains many, many manuscripts of sermons. Only a portion were given by Rader, although all were given at CGT or had some connection with the Tabernacle. Among the topics covered are:

Folder	Topic	Speaker(s)
1-30	African Missions	Norman Davis, Kopp
1-31	African Missions	Roadhouse
1-35	Apostasy	Luke Rader
1-18	The Bible School	E. Joseph Evans
1-37	Born Again	E. J. Richards
10-1	Breeding a New Species	Paul Rader
1-42	Brotherhood	T. T. Shields
1-51	Canada Missions	J. H. Woodward
1-31	China Missions	Martin Ekvall, Stuart
1-32	China Missions	Tom? Moseley
1-30	China Missions	Stewart, Howard Van Dyck, Rudy
1-29	The Church	Mark Matthews
1-33	The Church	R. E. Neighbor
1-28	Compromise	Gregory Mantle
1-35	Cults	Luke Rader
1-43	Daniel, Book of	Oswald J. Smith
1-50	Demons	Gerald Winrod
1-36	Easter	Paul Rader
1-33	Ecclesiastes	R. E. Neighbor
1-19	Evangelism	Howard Ferrin
1-20	Evangelism	R. H. Forrest
1-21	Evangelism	Margaret Houser
1-28	Evangelism	Gregory Mantle
1-41	Evangelism	William Shannon
1-24	Faith	Bessie Johnson
1-35	Faith	Luke Rader
1-36	Freedom	Paul Rader
1-33	Glory of God	R. E. Neighbor
1-19	God and Science	Howard Ferrin
1-37	Good Samaritan	E. J. Richards
1-35	Heaven	Luke Rader
1-35	Holy Spirit	Luke Rader
1-15	The Home	William Biederwolf
1-30	India Missions	Andrews, Lapp, Peter
1-31	India Missions	Cox
1-22	Israel in God's Plan	F. E. Howitt
1-34	Israel in God's Plan	Henry Ostrom
1-38	Israel in God's Plan	William Bell Riley
1-31	Japan Missions	Wood
1-50	Jonah, Book of	Gerald Winrod
1-31	Korea Missions	Wood
1-35	Labor Movement	Luke Rader
10-1	The Laugh in Life	Paul Rader
1-37	Lazarus	E. J. Richards
1-36	Legalism	Paul Rader
1-35	Love	Luke Rader
1-36	Love	Paul Rader
1-38	Micah	William Bell Riley
1-50	Miracles	Gerald Winrod
1-30	Missions	Chrisitan Eicher
1-30	Missions (South China)	Galbraith
1-30	Missions (India)	Peter
1-31	Missions	Paul Rader
1-43	Missions	Oswald J. Smith
1-47	Missions	Walter Turnbull
1-49	Missions	J. D. Williams
1-33	Peter, First Book of	R. E. Neighbor
1-16	Prayer	E. M. Bounds
1-26	Prayer	John Wesley Lee
1-29	Prayer	Mark Matthews
1-35	Prayer	Luke Rader
1-33	Prophecy	R. E. Neighbor
1-35	Prophecy	Luke Rader
1-38	Prophecy	William Bell Riley
1-43	Prophecy	Oswald J. Smith
1-41	Repentance	William Shannon
1-39	Ruth, Book of	Margaret T. Russell
1-27	Salvation	Harry Lindblom
1-28	Salvation	Gregory Mantle
1-35	Salvation	Luke Rader
1-36	Salvation	Paul Rader
1-37	Salvation	E. J. Richards
1-35	Sanctification	Luke Rader
1-50	Satan	Gerald Winrod
1-27	Sin	Harry Lindblom
10-1	Sin and Victory	Paul Rader
1-24	Twenty-Third Psalm	Bessie Johnson
1-44	Value of Men	George Soerheide
10-1	Wearing Shoes	Paul Rader
1-45	World War I	John Sproul

Several of the sermons deal with the mission work of the CMA or with memories of the CMA's founder, A. B. Simpson (folders 1-30, 1-32, 1-40, 1-45, 1-47, 1-51).

There are also the sermons in folders 1-23 and 1-41, among others, which include biographical information on Paul Rader. Rader's own "sermons" in folder 1-36 do not appear to be sermons at all, for the most part, but rather very short messages he wrote either as editorials for his newsletter or for delivery over the radio.

The newsletters and magazines in OS10 and folders 1-10 to 1-12, as well as the bound copies of Good News, World Wide Christian Courier, and The World-Wide Temple Evangelist on the shelves of the Manuscript Reading Room on the third floor of the Billy Graham Center contain an extremely rich and varied amount of information on Rader's career from his pastorate of Moody Church (including Moody tabernacle) in the mid 1910s to shortly before his death in 1938. These publications include samples of his preaching and writing style; the work of Tabernacle staff including Richard Oliver, Clarence Jones, Merrill Dunlop, and others as well as associated Christian workers such as Peter Deyneka, Oswald Smith, and Luke Rader; CGT activities, the early days of radio evangelism, Protestant missions in various parts of the world, the Fundamentalist movement, and the work of other evangelists. Other topics covered, briefly or in detail, include such subjects as the speeches of William Jennings Bryan, Peter Deyneka and others' work in Russia, Christmas at the Tabernacle, city missions run by the Tabernacle, Courier services in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Toronto, and other cities, missions in Borneo, Jewish evangelism, Oswald Smith's work in Canada, and speeches of William Bell Riley. There is other also information in the articles and about local, national, and international events. For example, the February 1926 magazine contains an article by Eugene Taylor about the Chicago Plan of municipal development. The advertisements are very informative as well. They offer everything from Tabernacle hymn books to devices for making radioactive water ("When a family drinks Radio-Active Water, 89% of all disease lessens its hold upon the body").

Rader also made heavy use of the written word, especially pamphlet, through out his ministry, printing some of his popular sermons and radio message. Folders 8-4 through 9-1 contain dozens of these tracts, most from his time at CGT, but also many from the Moody Church period and a few from his time at the Fort Wayne Gospel Tabernacle. What is probably his first published work, a collection of poems called Variae Lectiones (Various Readings), is in folder 8-3. Folder 8-1 contains a copy of Rader’s novel, Big Bug, autographed by him for his wife.

A few cards and advertising items from his years at Moody, particularly the summer conferences of the church, are in folder 9-7.

Besides the publications described above, a description of Tabernacle activities can be found in the brochure Every Day of the Week at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (folder 1-7) and the stationery (folder 1-54). A miscellaneous collection of handbills and other materials are in folder 9-2.

Some memorabilia from Rader's radio work are contained in folder 1-13, which contains program schedules, gifts given to listeners, and messages he delivered over the radio. See also folder 8-8 for some of his radio messages published as pamphlets.

Folders 1-3 and 1-8 contain reports from Rader's frequent missionary trips to Asia and Europe. One report contains an interesting description of Mussolini. Folder 9-9 contain lengthy reports on meetings he in China (with Leland Wang); Belfast, North Ireland; and London, England. Writers of the report include Arie Kok, Henry Montgomery (ex-moderator of the Irish Presbyterian Church), and Thomas Cochrane of World Dominion. The passports of Paul and Mary Rader in folder 9-8 reflect his wide ranging travels.

World Wide Christian Couriers was the corporation that Rader founded in the early 1920s to serve as base for his various ministry activities. By the early 1930s, the Couriers had become a kind of cross between a fraternal society and a Bible study/Christian training group. Incorporation certificates, minutes and other legal documents are in folder 10-2. Samples of the manuals and course work of the Couriers can be found in folders 1-6 and OS10. The magazines in folders 1-10 and 1-11 as well as the sermons also contain frequent references to the Couriers.

Folders 2-1 through 2-3 contain material received from William Dillon, who was director of music at the Fort Wayne Gospel Temple and who accompanied Paul Rader on an evangelistic trip to England and Scotland in 1938. In folder 2-3 is a printed pamphlet titled Three Vital Messages by Rader. These messages were delivered at the Alliance Temple in Toronto, Canada, in 1925.

Folders 1-4 and 9-3 contains material about Rader’s death and funeral. (See also boxes 5 and 6, described below.) Also of interest are the materials in folders 1-24 and 1-25, which are concerned with the death and funeral of Laura Eugenia Rader, Paul Rader's mother.

Subseries: IB. Material about Rader compiled after his death
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1905-1988
Volume: 2.925 cubic feet
Boxes: 2, 3-7
Type of documents: Scrapbooks, chapter outlines and drafts of chapters, correspondence, reminiscences, a wide variety of documents from Rader’s ministry
Correspondents: C. L. Eicher, Albert M. Johnson, Paul Rader, Susannah Spurgeon, E. Y. Woolley
Notes: Boxes 4, 5 and 6 contain three scrapbooks kept by Rader's daughter Harriet. The substantial portions of these books have been microfilmed and can be found on microfilm reels 3 and 4. For portions of the scrapbooks which were totally repetitive, only samples were filmed. The books are a treasure trove of information about his career. The material in the three scrapbooks is not arranged in any particular order, although II and III contain mostly Rader's obituaries and information about his funeral. Besides clippings, these scrapbooks include photos, brochures, letters, handbills, and programs from all aspects of Rader's career. Materials which would need to be unfolded to be read or which for some other reason could not be read while in the scrapbook and were put in a folder in the same box as the scrapbook. A page was put in the scrapbook which said what folder the removed material was in.

Book I - Manuscript of an article by Rader of his interview of actor Harry Lauder (folder 4-2), article from the Christian and Missionary Alliance magazine about the Rader’s 1920 trip to visit C&MA missionaries in India, Indochina, China, Japan and the Philippines (folder 4-4), brochures about Homer Rodeheaver's evangelistic activities (folder 4-5), clippings about Rader's 1926 Philadelphia meetings (folders 4-1, 4-6, and 4-7), handbill about healing evangelist F. F. Bosworth (folder 4-9), newsletters published by the Fort Wayne Gospel Temple (folder 4-12), clippings from Rader's 1938 evangelistic tour of England (folder 4-13 and 4-14).

Book II - Articles about Rader's Belfast meetings, telegrams from friends and colleagues sent to Rader's family after his death (folders 5-1, 5-2, 5-4), material about Rader as a founder of the Beta Kappa fraternity (folder 5-3), list of major events at the Tabernacle during its first ten years (folder 5-5), speech apparently given by Rader shortly before his resignation as president of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in which he discusses problems caused by its increasingly denomination-like structure, a manuscript copy of the sermon preached at Rader's funeral, a time line of the first 10 years of the CGT (folder 5-5), copies of several brief sermons by Rader (folder 5-6).

Book III - Newsletter about the purchase of the CGT property in 1937 (folder 6-2), obituaries for Rader (folders 6-1 and 6-4), brochures about World Wide Couriers, several telegrams sent to Rader by various celebrities and Christian leaders on the occasion of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle's tenth anniversary (folders 6-1 and 6-3), newsletters put out by the Tabernacle after Rader left (folder 6-5), material relating to Rader's leadership of a movement to have the president of the United States proclaim a national day of prayer (folder 6-5), a copy of a letter from Rader's daughter Willamine to Arthur McGee discussing her father's theology (folder 6-6), honorary degrees Rader received from Bob Jones College (folder 6-7), brochures about North Side Gospel Center (folders 6-11, 6-14), information on the Christian Broadcasters Fellowship and early radio preachers, an article by Rader giving his reaction to Billy Sunday's death (folder 6-10), material about Rader's 1935 meetings in Detroit.

Another of Rader’s daughter, Willamine Rader Miller, compiled some of materials in this collection and at one point apparently had an idea of writing a biography of her father or having one written. The materials she gathered and drafts (and transcripts of those drafts) made at various times between the late 1930s and early 1970s about her memories of her father and her memories of his own descriptions of his life, can be found in folder 7-4. This material was passed on to another would-be Rader biographer, her cousin.

This cousin was a later Paul Rader (some times called Paul Rader II ), son of Luke Rader and nephew of Daniel Paul Rader, was also an evangelist. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he spent a good deal of time gathering material for a biography of his uncle. Box 7 contains the letters of reminiscences he gathered from people who remembered his uncle (folder 7-1); a variety of source documents, mainly notes, reminisces and articles from later magazines that touch on some aspect of his uncle’s life and ministry (folder 7-3); and his own notes, outlines, and drafts for the book (folder 7-2). The biography was never completed.

Rader, the man, is described in some reminiscences from Charles Fuller, J. Fletcher Agnew, and Clarence Jones contained in folder 1-14. The Agnew materials include information on assistance Rader gave the Salvation Army.

The materials in box 3 were gathered by Larry Eskridge for a master's thesis for the University of Maryland. Included are photocopies made of (1) records of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Albert M. Johnson, and Gospel Foundation between 1927-1933 (folder 3-1); (2) the Rader, Johnson, and Westerfield Candy Company legal agreements, 1925, (folder 3-2); (3) correspondence of Albert M. Johnson, 1915-1921 (folder 3-3); (4) minutes and dissolution of the Gospel Foundation and the sale of Tabernacle Publishing Company to Hope Publishing Company, 1921-1948 (folder 3-4); and (5) World Wide Christian Couriers bankruptcy records, 1933-1935 (folder 3-5). Folder 3-6 contains radio station WJBT applications and forms, 1927-28. Additional materials on the history of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, dissolution of the Gospel Missionary Association and Tabernacle Publishing Company may be found in folder 3-7. Folder 3-8 contains photocopies of a letter and advertisements of Rader's Pantry. Copies of a publication started by Rader, Beta Kappa Journal, are in folder 3-9 and a genealogical book on the Rader family is in folder 3-10. A copy of Eskridge's thesis is contained in folder 3-11. Folder 3-12 holds the lists of questions for interviews of Virginia Latham, Pauline Rader Noll, and Harriet Rader Kisler. The interviews themselves may be found on T4 through T10.

Arrangement: Chronological by date
Date Range: 1928-1996
Volume: .824 cubic feet
Geographic coverage: Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles California; Fort Wayne, Indiana; England
Type of documents: Films, audio tapes, video tapes, photographs
Subjects: Paul Rader’s life, ministry, and impact, the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle
Notes: This series contains all the audio and video tapes and photographs in the collection. For more detailed descriptions, see the location records for the different types of items.

Exceptional items:

There is a sample of his preaching style contained on the brief recordings of Rader's voice in tapes T1 and T2.

The video tape V1 is a copy of a silent film, probably made in the late 1920s. It includes shots of the adult and children's choirs, the band, Merrill Dunlop and Lance Latham playing the organ and piano, broadcasting over the radio, the missionary activity of the Tabernacle, etc. The video tape also contains a film of Rader in bed in the hospital at the time of his final illness (including a visit by Homer Rodeheaver) and his funeral in California.

The material in this collection has been gathered from a variety of sources in the years between 1978 and 2006. Contribution of materials were made by John Bauerlein, William Bickett, Lloyd Cory, Barbara Jones Cowan. William Dillon, Merrill Dunlop, Larry Eskridge, Jean Hibben, Mrs. Harriet Kisler, Mrs. Frank Longino, Walter Osborn, Paul Rader, Ray Schulenberg, Eunice Mae Schultz, Paul Smith, Grace Van Deraa, Andrew Wyzenbeek, and Wheaton College Special Collections. Special mention should be made of materials donated by Daniel Paul Rader’s daughter and nephew, Harriet E. Kisler and Paul Rader.

Researchers in the Archives reading Room can ask for the books and pamphlets by Rader given to the Wheaton College library.

Accessions: 78-13, 78-31, 78-45, 79-101, 79-103, 80-51, 80-81, 81-145, 83-118, 84-7, 84-21, 84-29, 84-30, 84-38, 84-80, 84-130, 85-15, 85-85, 85-145, 85-150

June 19, 1978
Revised: 11/27/78, 4/18/79, 1/22/80, 7/1/80, 10/15/82, 3/6/85, 6/11/86
Robert Shuster
J. Nasgowitz
Accessions: 84-110, 85-15, 85-47, 85-83, 85-139, 86-26, 86-135, 87-59

July 18, 2007
Accessions: 87-62, 96-11, 97-59, 99-37, 99-48, 99-67, 00-27, 00-44, 00-15, 00-56, 01-21, 05-43, 03-80, 06-04
Bob Shuster, K. Hayward

The following items are located in the AUDIO TAPE file.
Item# - Reel or cassette, speed, length, number of sides, contents (title of session, participants) according to the program, date.

#	R/C	speed	length	Sides	Contents	Dates
T1	R	3 3/4	90	1	Taped from LP phonograph record, Yesterday's Voices. In addition to the material on the record, the tape contains a brief sermon by Rader and music from the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle.	Rader segment is ca. 1928
T2	R	3 3/4	8	1	Same as Rader and Tabernacle segments on T1.	ca. 1928
T3	C	3 3/4	5 ½	1	William Dillon talks about his association with Paul Rader at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, the Fort Wayne Gospel Tabernacle, and on an evangelistic trip to England in 1938.	n.d.
T4	R	3 3/4	60	1	Tape recording by Virginia Latham in response to a typed list of questions (see folder 3-12) sent to her by Larry Eskridge for his M.A. thesis. Discusses her memories of and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, including other people such as Clarence Jones, Paul Fleming, Arthur Rorheim and the Awana Youth Association, as well as the radio ministry of Paul Rader. Tells in story form and refers to only several specific questions at the end.	ca. 2/1985
T5	R	3 3/4	40	1	Tape recording by Harriet Rader Kisler in response to a typed list of questions (see folder 3-12) sent to her by Larry Eskridge for his M.A. thesis. Discusses her memories of her father, Paul Rader, and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, including other people such as Rader's sister Katherine and R. R. Brown, among others. More or less follows questions.	ca. 8/1984
T6	R	3 3/4	60	1	Tape recording by Harriet Rader Kisler made in response to a typed list of questions (see folder 3-12) sent to her by Larry Eskridge for his M.A. thesis. Discusses her memories of her father, mother, Richard Oliver, Homer Rodeheaver, and others.	ca .9/1984
T7

Billy Graham Center
Archives

Ephemera of Daniel Paul Rader - Collection 38

Table of Contents

Audio Tapes
Microfilm
Negatives
Oversize Materials
Photographs
Slides
Video Tapes

List of the Contents of Boxes of Paper Records in This Collection (Container List)

*****

Click to hear a Paul Rader sermonette, "the Stone Age" ca. 1930s

Click Paul Rader sermon, "I sent you to reap."

Click to enter the "Jazz Age Evangelism: Paul Rader & Chicago Gospel Tabernacle" exhibit

Billy Graham Center Archives

Ephemera of Daniel Paul Rader - Collection 38

Table of Contents

Audio Tapes Microfilm Negatives Oversize Materials Photographs Slides Video Tapes List of the Contents of Boxes of Paper Records in This Collection (Container List) ***** Click to hear a Paul Rader sermonette, "the Stone Age" ca. 1930s Click Paul Rader sermon, "I sent you to reap."

Click to enter the "Jazz Age Evangelism: Paul Rader & Chicago Gospel Tabernacle" exhibit

Billy Graham Center
Archives

Audio Tapes
Microfilm
Negatives
Oversize Materials
Photographs
Slides
Video Tapes

List of the Contents of Boxes of Paper Records in This Collection (Container List)

*****

Click to hear a Paul Rader sermonette, "the Stone Age" ca. 1930s

Click Paul Rader sermon, "I sent you to reap."