Entries Tagged as ‘Restoration Movement’

June 7, 2007

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth

Does the Bible really claim to be that middle part?
I believe that the Bible is sufficient to lead a person into a relationship with God through Christ that will save from sin and bring meaning and purpose to a life that will be eternally blessed. I don’t know that I can tie that down to [...]

June 4, 2007

Passing Of A Great Servant Of God

The following is from Cecil Hook’s daughter, Mira Prince.

Dear friends,My dad, Cecil Hook, passed from this world to the next peacefully around 10:30pm on Friday, June 1, 2007.  He was here at home in his bed in his favorite pajamas. We had known that Dad was very near the end as we entered the weekend. [...]

May 7, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 14

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 [...]

May 2, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 13

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. [...]

May 1, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 12

 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 [...]

April 28, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 11

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 [...]

April 25, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 10

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, [...]

April 24, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 9

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 [...]

April 23, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 8 (Some Sad Quotes Here*)

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 [...]

April 21, 2007

Looking At Restoration Movement History: Part 7

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 [...]