You could walk out of a Gibson's with a lawn chair, a sack of fertilizer, a rod and reel and a bag of candy, and the sign over the door did not say much more than the name.
The man behind it was Herbert Richard Gibson, and he did not come from anything. He was born near Berryville, up in the Arkansas hills, in 1901, third of five children of farming people, and his formal schooling stopped in grade school. At twelve his father set him up with a livestock business of his own, and the boy built it into something worth several thousand dollars before disease went through the animals and wiped it out. By the mid-twenties he was cutting hair for a living in Kansas.
Then he went into the wholesale novelty trade, and in 1934 he moved the whole operation to Seagoville, southeast of Dallas, and renamed it Gibson Products Company. That little Texas town is where the rest of it starts. For more than twenty years he sold goods to other people's stores and paid close attention to how they ran them.
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Dear friends and cowfolk,
Those who believe in and follow Jesus Christ are born again as God’s children. And because we love Jesus we also love one another.
When we love God we keep His commandments with joy and without burden. God’s commandments are only burdensome to those who do not know Him.
Everything born of God overcomes the world. We overcome this world by our faith in Jesus Christ and the salvation He gives us. Follow Jesus Christ and overcome the world!
Jesus is Lord!
“Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the One who gives new birth loves also the one who has been born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the overcoming that has overcome the world—our faith.”
‭‭1 John‬ ...