The story of Tolbert Fanning began at his birth on May 10, 1810. He was born in Cannon County, Tennessee in the wilderness. Settlers were still trying to dig, burn and hack their way out of the wilderness. The people of today do not realize that they stand on the shoulders of giants from the […]
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Made Straight. Among the many things that the Son of God did while on earth, perhaps none meet the approval of the general reader more than the one recorded in Luke 13: 10-13. This was a woman who had been bound by infirmities for eighteen years; but when Jesus put his hands upon her,
The simple fact that, interpreters of prophecy and signs, have generally erred in conclusions, has created almost inveterate prejudices against them as safe teachers; and yet, there is a high obligation resting upon Christians, to note with care, the signs of the times; and in the prophecies, there can be no doubt, there are valuable
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God’s promises are always at the end of obedience to His commands. It is always a matter of importance to know just when we can claim the promise of pardon. We all know that there is confusion in the religious world on this subject. Some claim the promise of pardon at one stage of their
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We must possess the mind of the honest Baptist, to be willing to decrease, that Christ may increase— to be willing for truth’s sake, to be rejected by all, even to be excluded from the society, with which we may be associated, however popular and respectable it may be. The dread of this has caused
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The following is an excerpt from Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve by Amos S. Hayden. The first discourse in this city, on the “ancient gospel” as plead by the disciples, was delivered by the pioneer, William Hayden. It occurred under the following circumstances: Coming to Armon O’Connor’s, a new convert from
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The following is an excerpt from Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve by Amos S. Hayden. In the opening of our plea on the Western Reserve the iconoclast was among us. He wrought for us, though in a far less honorable sense, the work which Goethe said was accomplished by Lord Bacon.
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