PREACHING. IF callings are to be estimated by the results they yield, then is preaching the first calling of earth. Of course, the reader does not understand me to speak of pecuniary results. Estimated by this standard, preaching is the last of callings. I speak of such results as are best for man, best in […]
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“WHY WE DIVIDE” The illuminating discussion at the recent Butler Institute of the so-called “Lunenburg Letter” of Alexander Campbell, by Marion Stevenson and Daniel Sommer, called attention to the fact that most of our differences have arisen because there were really two Alexander Campbell’s instead of one as we frequently assume. The young man who
War Tolbert Fanning War by Tolbert Fanning From the Christian Review, Vol 4. Franklin College, March, 1847. No. 3. ATTENTIVE READER, — Will you consent to forget your former impressions, and stifle your prejudices, while we examine, by the light of Revelation, a theme most dear to the interest of Messiah‘s kingdom? At no period
What Are You Eating? Among the many mysteries of life, one is often impressed with the different things eaten and how life may be sustained by the same. The bee eats honey, the sheep eats grass, the horse eats corn, and the buzzard eats offal; yet each fleshens on what it eats. Of the idolater
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CHRISTIAN EXPOSITOR. 1. Tim: 1. 5. “Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.” This may be called properly the golden chain of divine truth. The end of it is charity, or love—the beginning is unfeigned faith—and the middle is a
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“ADDRESS OF J. T. JOHNSON,DEDICATED TO THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN KENTUCKY.Beloved Brethren:—If the undersigned has any claims on your confidence and gratitude, you are entreated to read and consider what is herein presented with the design of advancing the cause in which we sire engaged, and for the success of which we have pledged
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Matt. xxviii. 10, 20. “And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying. All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
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Rice Haggard (1769–1819) Rice Haggard was born in Norfolk, Virginia in the year 1769. Virginia was still a British colony. By the time that Rice reached the age of ten the Virginians were at war with their colonial masters as to who exactly was going to be in control of Virginia. When he reached the
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CONSCIENCE. By J.M. McCaleb “Herein do I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men alway.” (Acts 24:16, R. V.) CONSCIENCE approves or condemns that which the mind thinks to be right or wrong; it causes pain when violated, and pleasure when obeyed. “Herein do I also exercise myself,”
A SERMON UPON GOATS, BY THE REV. MR. M—-D, D. D. F. R. S. “And thou shalt have goat’s milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens” Prov. xxvii. 27. FROM the days of Origen, the second century, to the present, it has been fashionable
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