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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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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How to Read the Scriptures, E. G. Sewell Christians should read the Scriptures daily. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom,” etc. Col. iii: 16.” “The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day.” Jno. xii: 48. And I saw the dead small and
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Barton Warren Stone Barton Warren Stone entered this world on Thursday, December 24, 1772 in the tiny settlement of Port Tobacco, Maryland. It was one of the earliest trade settlements located on the Potomac River. His family was rooted deep in the soil of the Episcopal Church of England and their faith was greatly tested
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THE ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS NOT MODERN. By Tolbert Fanning There is no better plan in arriving at the authority of a church, than by a careful examination into its origin. Men often become wedded to a sect, before searching the Scriptures as to its authority in the Bible, and their prejudices
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Elias Smith (1769-1846) This man was a master-worker in the establishment of the Lord’s church in the region of New England. His parents were of Baptist and Congregational background. He tells us that his father was a Baptist and his mother a firm Congregationalist. His birth occurred at Lynn, Conn., on June 17, 1769. His
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