He took on his first pastorate at First Baptist Church Shamrock, Texas, and later pastored in Dallas Texas. However became a full-time itinerant evangelist in 1926. He collaborated with [[J. Frank Norris]] on an early radio program. Reacting against modernism, Rice broke with the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] in 1927. | He took on his first pastorate at First Baptist Church Shamrock, Texas, and later pastored in Dallas Texas. However became a full-time itinerant evangelist in 1926. He collaborated with [[J. Frank Norris]] on an early radio program. Reacting against modernism, Rice broke with the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] in 1927. |