As I read this book, I am reminded of Philip and the Ethiopian.
Acts 8: 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in [...]
1927 Formation of the North American Christian Convention. This convention, which has no official status began as a rendezvous for conservative congregations in the Disciples’ movement. The Christian Churches/Churches of Christ are autonomous churches that have fellowship with one another as a part of a “brotherhood.”
We speak where the Bible speaks, We are silent where the [...]
1920 J. D. Tant was barred from the Gospel Advocate starting in 1909 for some ten years. The story goes that David Lipscomb objected to Tant’s being banned but had turned effective control of the paper over to J. C. McQuiddy. The justification for the ban was a report that Tant had used “profane” language in [...]
1891 James A. Harding (1848-1922) and David Lipscomb found Nashville Bible School. (now David Lipscomb University)
1892 From the Gospel Advocate, by David Lipscomb
Bro. Sommer publishes for our benefit the Sand Creek “Address and Declaration, by the congregations represented by their respective church officers in a mass meeting at Sand Creek, Shelby County, Illinois, August 17th, A. [...]
1884 - A Very Sad Year
Six thousand brethren gathered at Sand Creek, Illinois on August 18. Northern editor and preacher Daniel Sommer (1850-1940) delivered his “Address and Declaration,” calling for total separation from the Disciples.
ADDRESS AND DECLARATION
By the Congregations Represented by Their Respective Church Officers in a Mass-meeting Assembled at Sand Creek, Shelby Co., Ill., August [...]
1866 Isaac Errett (1820-188 founds the Christian Standard, a liberal voice. The Christian Standard was to come out in favor of the Missionary Society and in favor of instrumental music in the corporate worship of the saints. The Standard today is associated with the independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ.
1872 Ben Franklin, writing in the American [...]
1848 HISTORY OF THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.
BY PROF. R. RICHARDSON, OF VIRGINIA.
THEIR RISE, PROGRESS, FAITH, AND PRACTICE.
THE religious society, whose members prefer to be known by the primitive and unsectarian appellation of “Disciples of Christ,” or by that of “Christians,” the title first given to the followers of our Lord at Antioch A. D. 41, [...]
1841 The Love-Feast by Walter Scott in (THE EVANGELIST)
Last night we had a Love Feast: It was opened by prayer, and psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. The sweetest brotherly feeling pervaded the assembly, which, by the way, was large, the house being crowded. A brother C.D. Hurlbut then addressed us on the subject of [...]
1838 From the Millennial Harbinger, June 1838
News from the Churches
JACKSONVLLLE, Illinois, March 1st, 1838
We have had a very uncommon religious excitement here. Our church has met for five or six weeks every night, and often in the day. We have received and baptized about fifty–the Methodists double, and the Presbyterians and Congregationalists a large [...]
1829 Alexander Campbell served as a delegate in the Virginia Constitutional
Convention which met in Richmond, Va., from October 1829, until January 1830.
While there, he wrote to his wife Selina:
I preached yesterday to about 3000 souls, the largest assembly which Richmond has seen for many a day hundreds had to go away without hearing
Early 1830’s Churches from [...]
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