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WALTER WENDLER
Editor s Note: Fifth in a series on the Heart and Soul of the Texas Panhandle.
It is difficult to separate the faith of people in the Texas Panhandle from daily life, the way of American frontiers for centuries. The lives of early settlers in the Panhandle are challenging to separate from their beliefs in God guided chiefly by Christianity typically Congregationalist, Anglican or Episcopalian thinking and action. Spawned by the Second Great Awakening, Evangelical Methodism and Baptist thought were growing in influence, especially in the frontier s hard-to-reach locations. They were mirroring the national impact of the Second Great Awakening, personal creeds and civic action fused in an amalgam of accountability, responsibility and the exercise of free will directed toward family and community survival.  ....

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