Stone-Campbell Movement congregations in Nashville One Hundred Years Ago

Christian Churches as listed in the 1912 Nashville City Directory: ——- CHRISTIAN Belmont Avenue Church, Grand av n e cor 16th av. Boscobel Street Church – r 401 S 17th Carroll Street Church of Christ – 96 Carroll. Rev. Owen Henry, pastor; h 98 Carroll Cherokee Park Church of Christ – 6113 California Av. No [...]

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Pictures of Cane Ridge, 4: Barton Stone letter and sermons

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Pictures of Cane Ridge, 3: Artifacts from the museum

Museum: Ca. 1880′s pulpit: Interior of the meetinghouse showing the placement of the 1880′s pulpit in the location of the original pulpit. Exterior view of the meetinghouse with clapboards: Communion set used by Cane Ridge congregation: Walter Scott’s copy of Living Oracles.  Look closely in the second photo to see his name stamped on the [...]

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Book Review: A Treasury of Tennessee Churches by Mayme Hart Johnson

Mayme Hart JOHNSON. A Treasury of Tennessee Churches. Brentwood, TN: JM Productions, 1986. 142 pp. Published during Tennessee’s “Homecoming ’86″ Bicentennial celebration, Johnson’s book chronicles with text and photographs a wide sampling of houses of worship in the Volunteer State.  I counted 223 churches and synagogues in this diverse compilation.  Johnson shows us the comparatively [...]

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Carnal Warfare: A voice from the summer of 1942

This from the August 1942 issue of Apostolic Times, a monthly published in Nashville by James A. Allen.  In 1941 Allen is in his late fifties.  He has been editor of Apostolic Times, a paper he originated and printed himself, for a decade.  He preceded Foy E. Wallace, Jr. as editor of the Gospel Advocate, serving in [...]

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Christian Normal Institute, January 1920

Sometimes kind serendipity kisses you on the lips.  Some of my neatest finds come while I’m looking for something else.  Here is a serendipitous find from the January 20, 1920 issue of Christian Leader.  It is a short newsy item sent in by R. B. Neal about an infant school, Christian Normal Institute, in the [...]

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Lipscomb & Sewell

Some weeks ago I searched the Gospel Advocate for 1889 looking, of course, for CEWD, and saw this ad for Lipscomb & Sewell Printers/Publishers.  It takes up about half of the back page of the paper and ran in several issues.  Thought you’d like to see it.  The illustration  has at 6 or more classes going on simultaneously.  [...]

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CEW Dorris on Cled Wallace’s War Baby

This from CEW Dorris, Nashville, TN to Cled Wallace, Austin TX, September 9, 1942: Dear Brother Wallace: I have viewed your war baby which was displayed in the June issue of the Bible Banner and I must say that its one of the ugliest looking youngsters that I ever saw to have such a good [...]

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Researching at the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Twice this week I visited the Tennessee State Library and Archives in downtown Nashville.  (There’s nothing like spending two vacation days in an archive).  But it was a worthwhile trip…both times. Tuesday was my first experience there as a researcher.  After the preliminary check-in procedures I found the right reading room and got down to business.  [...]

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Once in 43 years…

“I remember being out of the pulpit one Sunday on account of sickness in 43 years,” writes a minister, now long dead, about his preaching career.  His comment is preserved for us on  a pension application.  It is a testimony to his commitment to preaching, and it is a rather outstanding record at that.  That [...]

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