First Lesson Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (First Third)
In the early part of this century, Henry Ford and his brother-in-law Howell Graves visited Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They announced to a nation that Muscle Shoals was to become the "Detroit of the South." Henry Ford was going to build automobile making facilities in Muscle Shoals to rival those of the North. The city would become, in one word, "prosperous." Henry Ford laid out an entire city complete with sub-divisions. He paved roads, put down sidewalks, laid sewer lines, and curbed and guttered an entire section of the city which once had been corn and cotton fields.
