SACRED HISTORY IN THE EDUCATION OF PREACHERS. by J.W. McGarvey FACTS are the basis of correct knowledge in all departments i of human study. No deductions in the physical sciences are conclusive unless they are derived from well-established facts; and even in psychology certain facts of consciousness are the guides to investigation and the tests […]
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CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE: By John T. Johnson Whatever has a tendency to promote the happiness of Christians, should be their daily study and constant pursuit. As this is a matter of the very first importance, we should endeavor to ascertain those sources, or principles, or institutions, from which alone happiness can be derived. It
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SERMON BY ELDER J. T. JOHNSON. ROM. v. 10: “ For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved from wrath by his life.” 1. The doctrine of Reconciliation is fundamental in our holy religion, as it regards both
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ABNER JONES (1772-1841) Abner Jones entered this world in Boylston, Massachusetts on April 28, 1772. He was born into a very religious, Baptist family whose father was a strong adherent of the doctrine of Calvinism. His father was a leading man in that denomination and was known by a great many people in the area
ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY BY TOLBERT FANNING This is an age of speculation and experiments. Few, indeed, if any, admit society is what it should be. Politicians and statesmen charge others with error, but will not the best of them, contend they are infallibly right. It is not a difficult matter for religionists to specify the
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BROTHER FANNING:—If you think the remarks below worthy of a place in the Review, I shall be pleased to see them. Dear young sisters in Christ, have we not reason to conclude, when we compare the multitude of young Women who profess to be the disciples of Christ, with what the word of God requires,
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REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST. BY ELDER JOHN ROGERS. BRO. FRANKLIN:—I am now holding a meeting in Harrison Co., on Beaver, at the Republican meeting house, in the vicinity of which I preached at least thirty- seven years ago. I was then a mere boy, not yet twenty years old. I am now an old man.
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ARE WE DISCIPLES? As SOME doubt may, by implication, have been thrown upon this point of late, it may not be amiss to be made more certain—to use an idiom of the old Romans—respecting it. No religious body has made so much use of the term as we. No people have made more prominent the
DR. CHESTER BULLARD. Dr. Chester Bullard was the child of Baptist parents. His early childhood was spent in Montgomery county, in Southwest Virginia, near the source of the Roanoke river, about three miles from Christiansburg. This section was rife with irreligion, there being but three professing Christians among the four hundred inhabitants of Christiansburg. In
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A SERMON: BY ELDER A. RAINES, PARIS, KY. REMISSION OF SINS IN THE NAME OF JESUS. “THUS it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached, in His name, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”—Luke
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