Hans Rollmann remembers Nashville’s Belmont church of Christ

http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-25/article-2907363/Nashville-religion/1  

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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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M. C. Kurfees remembers J. W. McGarvey

Practice of the “Fathers” on Opinions [Kurfees marshalls quotes from the Restoration Fathers...he says that "those who did express themsevles leave no room for doubt that they all stood as a solid unit against the practice.  We now call upon this distinguished roll of reformers with their associates and successors to speak for themsevels:"].   23. [...]

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M. D. Clubb remembers J. W. McGarvey, part 4

Tenth Affirmative Brother Boles’ reply to my argument from apostolic ex-[page 137]ample is so weak and void of reason that I pass it by with one brief remark.  My argument gives no consequence to the burning of incense.  The ninth chapter of Hebrews plainly says that the censer (in which the incense was burned) was a definite [...]

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M. D. Clubb remembers J. W. McGarvey, part 3

Eighth Affirmative To sum up, Brother Boles has given twenty-eight commentaries, and what do we find?  Ten of them are neutral–that is, in the comments quoted, they have nothing to say one way or the other.  Only six definitely support the negative.  they are: Adam Clarke, Dr. Whedon, John Calvin, Moses E. Lard, J. W. [...]

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H. Leo Boles and J. W. McGarvey, part 2b

Seventh Negative …J. W. McGARVEY: “To sum up these arguemtns, you can now see that this practice is one of recent origin among Protstant churches, adopted by them from the Roman apostasy; that is was one of the latest corruptionss adopted by that corrupt body; that a large part of the religious world has never [...]

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H. Leo Boles and J. W. McGarvey, part 2a

Seventh Negative …His next reference is to the quotation from the lamented J. W. mcGarvey.  I must say that brother Clubb does himself no honor and his own cause an injury by trying to impeach the scholarship and integrity of brother McGarvey when he says that “McGarvey was not a Greek scholar.”  All know that [...]

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M. D. Clubb remembers J. W. McGarvey, part 2

Seventh Affirmative …J. W. McGARVEY is quoted.  Here is what he says: “And if any man who is a preacher believes that the apostle teaches the use of instrumental music in the church by enjoining the singing of psalms, he is one of those smatterers of Greek who can believe anything that he wishes to believe.”  professor McGarvey was my [...]

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H. Leo Boles and J. W. McGarvey, part 1

Sixth Negative …J. W. McGARVEY: “And if any man who is a preacher beleives that the apostle teaches the use of instrumental music in the church be enjoining the signing of psalms, he is one of those smatterers in Greek who can beleive anything that he wishes to beleives. When the wish is father to [...]

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J. P. Sewell remembers J. W. McGarvey

Biographical Sketches of Restoration Preachers …Now I will tell this incident in the life of Brother J. W. McGarvey. In January, 1902 or 1903, I was preaching for the Pearl and Bryan Streets Church in Dallas. brother McGarvey, an old man at the time, was invited to speak at the Central Christian Church in Dallas. [...]

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