Sermon notes 1 of 2, December 5, 1988

The P.F. Taylor collection is a series of sermons and collected notes written and preached over a sixty year period. There are 12 boxes in the collection. The sermons were arranged as chronologically as possible according to decade. After the initial order they are then arranged by subject. The majority of the materials came in one accession with some additions later. A total of 51 binders and several loose-leaf Bibles make up the collection. There are some water damaged items in the collection. Many of his sermons received extensive water damage and were not salvageable. He had thoroughly organized them into binders and after his retirement indexed them. He also had a color coded system of which we do not know the meaning. Some of the binders are numbered and many only had organizational dates. During the mid-1970s when his son Al was working at Forward in Faith, in Cleveland, Tennessee, Taylor would send copies of his own sermons to help his son with public speaking. There is some correspondence from father to son in the collection. His radio program sermons are noted. Taylor found it helpful to use loose-leaf Bibles so he could take them apart and insert his notes where necessary. The author’s original order and labeling system has been kept to the best of our ability. Folders are labeled exactly as written on the binder. If there was no writing on the binder they are listed as miscellaneous sermons.