In a special set of episodes, Doug shares three special parts of Earl Palmer's memorial service at University Presbyterian Church this last June. Earl Palmer preached at First Presbyterian Church a number of times, and was a true legend.

In this part, we listen to a poem written by Earl called "I Know a House."

⁠⁠Earl Palmer Memorial Service on YouTube⁠ I Know a House

I know a house that took me in to send me out and I keep finding this house in all of the places in my life as if it were as itinerant as I

My first memory of this place I call a house is of friendly fragrances the smell of evening suppers and coffee brewing, sometimes of old wooden doors that are out of fashion and sometimes the new aroma of children laughing

I came to know the people of this house who took me in and who send me out because they taught me here about the owner of the house and in time I learned his name

I always love best of all the main room right in the center of this house a room that seems always vast in size to me with its grand sounds solemn and joyous and the flood of colors on both sunny and cloudy days

I learned the memory of a royal past because of this house and like a waterfall cataract of some mysterious river that flowed around its open door I felt the powerful surprise of hope and resolve

I know this house and wherever I go I find it either settled in or precariously perched yet always the house that takes me in to send me out