Daniel Sommer was of German ancestry. His parents were German immigrants. The father, Johann (John) was a Hessian, while the mother, Magdalena Wyman, came from Bavaria. They came to this country in about 1835 and married in Washington D.C. in 1840. Both parents were short in stature, each being about five feet five inches. […]
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David Lipscomb was an important leader of the second generation of the Restoration Movement. It was his steady hand and eye that were to guide the disciples and all who were seeking to do Bible things in Bible ways. When things got tough for southerners in post-civil-war Tennessee, it was his guidance which would
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The Life of Jacob Creath, Jr. His Birth and Early Days. The life of Jacob Creath Jr. begins on January 17, 1799 in Mecklenburg, County, Virginia. His father was a strictly Baptist preacher named William Creath. His mother was Lucy Brame, the daughter of Thomas Brame of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Both of his parents were
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The Life of Thomas Wesley Brents The life of Thomas Wesley Brents began on February 10, 1823 in a dirt-floored shack alongside Richmond Creek. It was in a cabin of a poor farming couple who were engaged in the same process as were most all of the neighbors; clearing the land and preparing to plant
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The story of Tolbert Fanning began at his birth on May 10, 1810. He was born in Cannon County, Tennessee in the wilderness. Settlers were still trying to dig, burn and hack their way out of the wilderness. The people of today do not realize that they stand on the shoulders of giants from the
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Made Straight. Among the many things that the Son of God did while on earth, perhaps none meet the approval of the general reader more than the one recorded in Luke 13: 10-13. This was a woman who had been bound by infirmities for eighteen years; but when Jesus put his hands upon her,
The simple fact that, interpreters of prophecy and signs, have generally erred in conclusions, has created almost inveterate prejudices against them as safe teachers; and yet, there is a high obligation resting upon Christians, to note with care, the signs of the times; and in the prophecies, there can be no doubt, there are valuable
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God’s promises are always at the end of obedience to His commands. It is always a matter of importance to know just when we can claim the promise of pardon. We all know that there is confusion in the religious world on this subject. Some claim the promise of pardon at one stage of their
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We must possess the mind of the honest Baptist, to be willing to decrease, that Christ may increase— to be willing for truth’s sake, to be rejected by all, even to be excluded from the society, with which we may be associated, however popular and respectable it may be. The dread of this has caused
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