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 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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The following is an excerpt from the book, Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, edited by J. W. West, containing some comments from B. A. Abbott (1866-1936) on the topic of preaching and preachers. ——— He was a great believer in preaching and in preachers. This quotation from an editorial on “Big Preachers” well expresses his
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The following is an excerpt from the book, Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, edited by J. W. West, describing an event in the life of J. W. Masters (1854-1924). ——— After Brother Masters had been away from home for a month, he returned and was informed that a “red hot” revival meeting was in progress,
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When J. W. McGarvey toured the Holy Lands, one of the places he visited was Damascus, which had a large population of Mohammedans (Muslims). The following are a couple of interesting observations he noted: Damascus still contains an intensely bigoted Mohammedan population. As we were stepping over the countless dogs that lay asleep in the
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