MY REMEMBRANCE OF

DR WALTER A MAIER

By Gary Ray Branscome

During the late 1940s my father was a regular listener to Dr. Walter A. Maier’s radio broadcast, “Bringing Christ to the Nations”. One Sunday, when I was four years old, I was making noise while my father was trying to listen. So he grabbed me, sat me down on a footstool, and told me to listen to what the man on the radio was saying. As I listened I will never forget how the words of Dr. Walter A. Maier gripped me. The words had power! After that I wanted to listen whenever the broadcast was on, and the words continued to grip me as I listened. For that reason, even though I was only five and a half years old when Dr. Maier died, I continued to remember those broadcasts, and remembering them helped me through the struggles of my teenage years. I knew the the power of the gospel.