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 […]
The following was written by Moses E. Lard (1818-1880) in an article about Allen Wright (1810-1860), a gospel preacher in Missouri. Though a faithful man and a beloved preacher, the Churches always managed to keep Brother Wright poor, very poor. Not one tenth of his time during his life if the horse he rode had
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“But suppose that a man will arise and say, ‘There is no God,’ and will, therefore, say, ‘I do not believe that I shall have any existence beyond this life.’ Such a man we may answer in the words of David, king of Israel, ‘The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God’
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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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This article is taken from A Book of Gems: Choice Selections from the Writings of Benjamin Franklin It is admitted on all hands, by all Protestants, that we should receive nothing more than is contained in the Holy Scriptures. It is also admitted, that we should receive nothing less than is contained in the Scriptures. It
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This article is taken from A Book of Gems: Choice Selections from the Writings of Benjamin Franklin First. This matter of gaining wealth does not depend altogether nor chiefly on loving money. If it depended altogether or chiefly on loving money, many more would gain wealth than do, for no doubt more love money as ardently as those that
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