By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music Format:Hardcover but both are keeping secrets

but both are keeping secrets that make trust nearly impossible

including his mother

her grades were fine

If there’s nothing out there

like so many others

By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music Format:Hardcover but both are keeping secretsAt a time when most African Americans were still enslaved, Charles Tindley was born free. His childhood was far from easy, with backbreaking hours in the fields, and no opportunity to go to school. But the spirituals he heard as he worked made him long to know how to read the Gospel for himself. Late at night, he taught himself to read from scraps of newspapers. From those small scraps, young Charles raised himself to become a founding father of