The following is an excerpt from the book, Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, edited by J. W. West. It contains a somewhat humorous account of an event in the life of Chester Bullard. ——— At what time in his life he moved to Snowville, Va., is not known. At that place was a church known […]
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The following is an excerpt from the book, A Brief Treatise on Prayer by Robert Milligan. It was the first of five points he discussed about the advantages of secret prayer (Chapter II). ——— The first of these is the cultivation of our own spiritual nature. If it is a law of the human constitution that
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The following is an excerpt from the book, Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, edited by J. W. West. This account of the Whetstone Church was written by J. T. Boyd. ——— The Whetstone church was organized before the year 1810 according to the old church book. James Storms was the first minister of this church.
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The following is an excerpt from the book, Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, edited by J. W. West, containing a biographical sketch of Silas Shelburne. ——— Silas Shelburne was of a long line of ancestors and descendants who became ministers. One of his relatives told me that they could trace their ancestors back to the
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The following is an excerpt from the book, Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, edited by J. W. West, containing a humorous account of an event in the life of Elder Jonathan P. Miller. ——— Laboring on a mountain farm when necessary, preaching regularly and evangelizing when not working crops, he spent fifty years traveling over
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