Please God Don't Call Me to Preach

<I>Please God Don't Call Me To Preach</I> was the heartfelt prayer of a little boy a Methodist minister's son in Jackson Mississippi. At age 12 a lonely childhood was transformed by summers at Lessidale Plantation and its loving Gerald family with a lasting bond between three boys; Nelson Clay and Bus the cook's son. Little did he hope that God would answer his prayer so dramatically: make Clay a physician.</P><P>He worked once with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and locked horns with Gov. George Wallace fighting for the rights of African Americans. Dr. King and Dr. Wells led this fight which integrated health care in Alabama. He was one of the two Anglos in the congregation at the funeral of the four little girls killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.</P><P>Dr. Wells headed for Cal Berkeley in the late '60's and continued OB-GYN practice and teaching career that would take him to medical schools in Louisiana Alabama Idaho Rhode Island South Carolina and finally Arkansas.</P><P>This memoir doesn't spare anyone and some pompous souls may find their profiles unsettling.</P>