Excerpt from Rowan Baptist Association of North Carolina: Held With Enon Baptist Church, Salisbury, North Carolina, October 26, 1976, and Stallings Memorial Baptist Church, Salisbury, North Carolina, October 27, 1976

In the past several months I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many new Christian friends. I would like to thank all of you for your prayers and personal support during the recent illness and death of my father, Rev. John E. Carter. To those of you who became very deeply and personally involved in the last month of his life, my family extends its Christian love and affection. We thank the Lord that Christian friends were nearby when we needed their support at this time in our lives.

Since my father's death I have been trying to gain some insight into the events which have taken place over the last several years. At this point I must say that I regret that it took this illness for me to realize how much Dad meant to me. I only wish that I had told him how much I loved him prior to his illness. Once the cancer began to destroy his health, there was never enough time in the World to make up for those lost moments. It is my prayer that all of you will express your love to those near to you while there is time to enjoy each other' s company in good health.

As a result of your generosity the only thing that I can give to you as my way of thanking you is what I have recently begun to understand. This 1s all that I have left from a great man my father. Dad wrote a will in which he left all of his material wealth, although small, to our mother. We five children wanted and expected that our mother be taken care of in this man ner. Although they may have had some turbulent years, my parents spent many long and happy years together. 'we children knew that by our father, being a man called by God, we would never be materially wealthy, but the Lord works in ways which are beyond understanding.

As I stated Dad left only one will, but while searching through the last thirty one years of my life I have discovered six other wills which my father left one for each member of the family. These wills are all different and only that individual for whom the will was intended knows its contents. With this thought I would like to share with you a part of the inheritance that I have received from my father.

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