Author: John Augustus WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Life of Elder John Smith
Author: John Augustus WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Life of Elder John Smith
Author: John Augustus WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Churches of Christ
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Life of Elder John Smith : with Some Account of the Rise and Progress of the Current Reformation
Author: John Augustus WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
LIFE OF ELDER JOHN SMITH
Author: JOHN AUGUSTUS. WILLIAMSPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033210680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Life of Elder Raccoon John Smith
Author: John WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781541375659
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The life of "Raccoon" John Smith was not an easy one. His young family was decimated by a house fire which claimed the lives of his two oldest children. His wife died from a broken heart soon thereafter. John Smith himself came close to death in the months that followed. But God spared him, and set him to working to bring people back to the Bible, and thus back to God. From his early Calvinistic preaching, he turned to follow only what he could prove from the Scriptures. As a result, he lost friends, and gained the ire of almost every denominational leader in the entire state. But throughout the trials and torments, John Smith became the most well-known preacher in the entire state. But his life was not all sadness. He was well known for his wit and humor in preaching, debating, teaching, and conversing. You will smile as you read about the Methodist preacher who begged not to be baptized by him; of the woman who asked if he'd ever seen a Campbellite; of his announcement that the writer of an anti-Campbellism book was selling copies of it at a meeting of preachers; and much, much more. Completely reformatted, corrected, and annotated, The Life of Elder Raccoon John Smith is a book that belongs in every Christian's library, and should be well-worn with use.
Raccoon John Smith
Author: Elder John SparksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813137268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars as part of the Stone-Campbell movement. If Stone and Campbell are considered the architects of the Disciples of Christ and America's first nondenominational movement, then Kentucky's Raccoon John Smith is their builder and mason. Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher is the biography of a man whose work among the early settlers of Kentucky carries an important legacy that continues in our own time. The son of a Revolutionary War soldier, Smith spent his childhood and adolescence in the untamed frontier country of Tennessee and southern Kentucky. A quick-witted, thoughtful, and humorous youth, Smith was shaped by the unlikely combination of his dangerous, feral surroundings and his Calvinist religious indoctrination. The dangers of frontier life made an even greater impression on John Smith as a young man, when several instances of personal tragedy forced him to question the philosophy of predeterminism that pervaded his religious upbringing. From these crises of faith, Smith emerged a changed man with a new vocation: to spread a Christian faith wherein salvation was available to all people. Thus began the long, ecclesiastical career of Raccoon John Smith and the germination of a religious revolution. Exhaustively researched, engagingly written, Raccoon John Smith is the first objective and painstakingly accurate treatment of the legendary frontier preacher. The intricacies behind the development of both Smith's personal religious beliefs and the founding of the Christian Church are treated with equal care. Raccoon John Smith is the story of a single man, but in carefully examining the events and people that influenced Elder Smith, this book also serves as a formative history for several Christian denominations, as well as an account of the wild, early years of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Life of Elder 'Raccoon' John Smith
Author: John Augustus WilliamsRaccoon John Smith
Author: John SparksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813123707
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Lexington, Kentucky, has the honor of being the birthplace of one of the first genuinely homegrown American Christian faiths: the Disciples of Christ. Established in 1832 by the union of two Christian groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, their descendent churches are now referred to by religious scholars as the Stone-Campbell movement. In the state’s best tradition, this historic movement soon acquired its own larger-than-life legend: Raccoon John Smith, the flamboyant frontier preacher of the southern Kentucky mountains. Smith moved to the lowland Bluegrass and braved considerable odds to preach and establish the self-described “pure, nondenominational” Christianity of Stone and Campbell throughout the state and beyond. The 1832 union of Stone and Campbell’s churches was in fact formalized not by Stone and Campbell, but by Stone together with Smith, who represented Campbell’s constituency in Kentucky. Raccoon John Smith occupies a well-deserved place both in Kentucky and Stone-Campbell history. All previous biographical studies have been colored by the religious faith he embraced and the legends that evolved around him, however, rather than giving an accurate account of Smith’s life. In Raccoon John Smith, Elder John Sparks fills this void in the literature about Smith, using historical sources to present a faithful portrait of a seminal frontier preacher and colorful figure in early Kentucky history.
Life of Elder John Smith
Author: John A. WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337836764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Life of Elder John Smith
Author: John Augustus WilliamsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265456965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Excerpt from Life of Elder John Smith: With Some Account of the Rise and Progress of the Current Reformation Mrs. Belle D. Simrall, Mrs. Margaret Stephenson, Mrs. Caro line Wheeler, Miss Sophronia Vickery, Miss Ella Moore, Miss Mannie Powell, Miss Rebecca Henderson, A. Ward, John Bowman, Elijah Threlkeld, Archibald Redd, James G. Arnold, William Van Pelt, Andrew Steele, Landon J. Thomas, Esq. James Harlan, Esq. Thomas Hansford, Joseph Wasson, Aaron Mitchell, Waller Small, Joseph Chinn, George Carpenter, Samuel Carrington, Dillard Hazelrigg, Elders Isaac T. Reneau, John D. Steele, Josiah Collins, Samuel W. Crutcher, William Jarrott, John A. Brooks, Aylett Raines, John Rogers, John I. Rogers, L. L. Pinkerton, George W. Elley, John S. Higgins, Curtis J. Smith, and A. Adams, of Kentucky, and Isaac Errett, of Ohio. He would likewise very gratefully acknowledge the valuable assistance of Miss Mary E. Whittington, of the Daughters' Col lege, during the composition and revision of the work. But for the aid of her pen in transcribing the ms. For its publication, owing to the engagements of the Aut have been much longer delayed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.