The following quote from J. W. McGarvey (1829-1911) is taken from his discourse titled “Preacher’s Methods” from The Missouri Christian Lectures (1883). ——— On the subject of special preparation I must speak very briefly. As I could not cover the entire ground without giving a synopsis of some work on Homiletics, I will only attempt a few […]
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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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The following is an excerpt from the book, Lands of the Bible by J. W. McGarvey, taken from one of the letters he wrote while traveling to the Holy Land. The quote below describes his visit to Mars Hill in Athens. As soon as I had eaten my breakfast I started out alone, determined to
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