Willard Collins Preaches at Lischey Avenue Church of Christ, April 26-May 10, 1942

A friend gave me this card about a year ago while I was teaching a class on Stone-Campbell history. While his mother attended Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ as a child, she occasionally visited family across the river in North Edgefield at Lischey Avenue Church. Going through an old scrap book he found this card and [...]

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Walter Scott on ‘Meeting’, Preaching and Exhorting

MEETING. Agreeably to appointment, a four day’s meeting was held at Mayslick, on the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st ult.  It was supposed that on Lord’s day, fifteen hundred persons were present: five brethren engaged actively in the business of the meeting, and ten or eleven individuals were immersed. We would just notice that the [...]

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Cane Ridge Meeting-House on Google Books

More here.

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The Posthumous Works of James M’Gready

Not long ago I posted to this blog a short extract of a sermon by James McGready entitled “A Sinner’s Guide to Hell.”  McGready (I’ve seen variations in the spelling of his name… McGreedy, MacGready, MacGreedy, M’Gready, M’Greedy and so forth) is one of those characters whose influence on the Stone-Campbell movement has not yet been fully [...]

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The Sinner’s Guide to Hell

In February 1790 Barton Warren Stone was a student at David Caldwell’s Academy in Guilford, North Carolina.  “With the ardor of Eneas’ son,” he wrote in his Autobiography, “I commenced with full purpose to acquire an education, or die in the attempt.”  While he acquired some education, many of his classmates acquired religion. When I [...]

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