The following is an excerpt from The White Pilgrim: The Life, Travels, and Gospel Labors of Elder Joseph Thomas. It contains a poem written by Elder J. Ellis, composed while standing at the grave of Elder Joseph Thomas, the White Pilgrim. ——— I came to the spot where the White Pilgrim lay, And pensively stood by his […]
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The following is an excerpt from The White Pilgrim: The Life, Travels, and Gospel Labors of Elder Joseph Thomas. Here, Thomas described the opposition he faced from those who zealously defended their man-made creeds while hypocritically praying for Christian union. ——— Here I bought fifty acres of land, and began to improve on it. So soon as
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The following is an excerpt from the book, Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny, and the Christian’s Relation to It, by David Lipscomb. ——— Man refused to be governed by God. First as an individual he violated the specific command of God. “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” This leaven of disobedience wrought
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The following is an excerpt from the book, The Evils of Socialism, by W. F. Lemmons. The book was first published in 1912. ——— If our government has produced wealth and capitalists, it is evidence of a good form of government. Any system of government that would keep all its subjects poor is as poor
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Samuel Robert Cassius (1853-1931) was born a slave in Virginia and lived in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. As an adult, he moved to Indiana, where he heard the “Restoration plea” and obeyed the gospel. He spent most of his life living, working, and preaching in Oklahoma. In the book To Save My Race from
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The following quote from J. W. McGarvey (1829-1911) is taken from his discourse titled “Preacher’s Methods” from The Missouri Christian Lectures (1883). ——— On the subject of special preparation I must speak very briefly. As I could not cover the entire ground without giving a synopsis of some work on Homiletics, I will only attempt a few
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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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