Draft and Ministers: a voice from spring of 1941

Appearing in the March 1941 issue of James A. Allen’s Apostolic Times is this from C. E. W. Dorris.  Charles Elias Webb Dorris is in 1941, by all accounts, a veteran preacher, debater and author.  He has not long been retired from Andrew Mizell Burton’s Life and Casualty Life Insurance Company of Tennessee. He remains [...]

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Two Disciples websites, and a reflection on archiving

DisciplesWorld’s website will change and evolve over the next few months.  Keep up with it all at Verity Jones’ blog here and get connected at the Intersection, a social networking site for Disciples and friends, here.  Change and evolution is the order of the day it seems.
It remains to be seen what an archive will [...]

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Save the Paper

Regular readers of this blog know that one of my research interests is Nashville’s Stone-Campbell heritage.  Judging from the folks who find my blog by searching for old Nashville churches like Foster Street Christian Church or Vine Street Christian Church or South College Street Church of Christ, I see I am not alone in my [...]

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He knows his onions

HE KNOWS HIS ONIONS
There’s a man working here,
            His name is Mr. Dorris,
He lives here in town,
            But kinder in a forest.
His land is very fertile,
            It produces mighty well,
He raises lots of vegetables,
            But not enough to sell.
He makes one thing a specialty,
            He will lead all over the state,
That’s these Texas onions.
            He [...]

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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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DLC Honors Veteran Preachers, 1954

Here is another installment in my Dorris research.  From the February 25, 1954 Gospel Advocate, page 157, the men pictured are the “honor guests” of the 13th Annual Fellowship Dinner at the Lipscomb Lectures.  Each having preached more than forty years, the combined number of years preached, Willard says, is near 1300 years.  As one I [...]

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Dorris Research: Unanswered Question 2

Saturday afternoon I spent a few minutes at the TN State Archives browsing their collection of Nashville City Directories.  I see in the 1907 Directory that Charles E. W. Dorris has moved to Los Angeles, California.

In 1906 he lived in West Nashville on Morrow Road near Kentucky Avenue; in 1908 he is back in the [...]

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Explorations in Stone-Campbell Bibliography, #8: Unpublished Books

In my scanning of our periodical literature I found a few references to books which for one reason or another have never been published.  Some are proposed and evidently the author never carried through, or sometimes a call is issued for a study on topic X or Y but no one takes up the challenge, or [...]

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South College Street Christian Church

A kind and generous friend passed along to me a sketch of South Nashville Christian Church, also known as South College Street Christian Church, South Nashville Church of Christ (all interchangeably) and finally, after 1920, Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ.

David Lipscomb is an elder here from the beginning until his death in 1917.  He preached to [...]

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Checking in from the hill

Just a moment to check in and give an update from the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference, now underway in sunny Cincinnati at Cincinnati Christian University.
CCU is a city on a hill…literally.  I’ll post a picture tomorrow.  It is also a city on a hill figuratively and spiritually.  though portions of the neighborhood have declined (not all [...]

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