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Minutes of the Ninth Annual National Christian Missionary Convention of the Churches of Christ of the United States
Get PDFMinutes of the Ninth Annual Christian Missionary Convention of the Churches of Christ of the United States, [held at] Cincinnati, Ohio, August 24 - 30, 1925. Held at Kenyon Ave. Christian Church.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/nationalchristianmissionaryconvention_minutes/1004/thumbnail.jp
[Minutes of] Eighth National Convention of the Churches of Christ of the United States
Get PDF[Minutes of] Eighth National Convention of the Churches of Christ of the United States. [Held at] Chicago, Illinois. August 26-31, 1924. Headquarters: Forrestville School, 45th Street and St. Lawrence Ave., for Armour Avenue Christian Church.
Includes Address of Preston Taylor on pages 24 - 32.
Joel Baer Lehman\u27s report, What is Done in a Missionary Way for the Negro Race at Home and Abroad, is on page 41.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/nationalchristianmissionaryconvention_minutes/1008/thumbnail.jp
Minutes of the Sixth National Convention of Christian Churches in America
Get PDFMinutes of the Sixth National Convention of Christian Churches in America
[Held at] Second Christian Church, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 21 - 27, 1922.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/nationalchristianmissionaryconvention_minutes/1002/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 22 [sic] (1922) (Serial Numbers 539 - 589)
Get PDFGospel Plea, Volume 22 [sic] (1922) (Serial Numbers 539 - 589)
On page two of Serial Number 576 (September 30, 1922), I. C. Franklin, President of the Mississippi State Convention, mentions the state of Mississippi will have its own state paper, a monthly named the Christian Dispatch. Franklin will be editor; Mrs. W. A. Scott, Associate Editor and J. A. Keys, Business Manager.
Isom K. Hicks (1894 - 1974), recently graduated, is the minister of the Grove Street Christian Church in Houston, Texas. White congregations in Houston loaned money to the African American congregation to allow them to construct their building, which was dedicated on April 23rd. (Serial Number 557 (May 20, 1922) page one.)https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1032/thumbnail.jp
Work of Disciples of Christ with Negro Americans
Get PDFEffie L. Cunningham, Work of Disciples of Christ with Negro Americans: A Resume of Church and Evangelistic Work, Educational Enterprise, and Social Service with Negroes in the United Stateshttps://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/all_pamphlets/1001/thumbnail.jp
C. R. D. Whitfield, Brief History of the Negro Disciples of Christ in Eastern North Carolina: Past Achievements and Future Aims
Get PDFC. R. D. Whitfield, Brief History of the Negro Disciples of Christ in Eastern North Carolina: Past Achievements and Future Aims
Charles R. D. Whitfield (1860-1944) was an elder in the Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ.
This fellowship was also known as the Churches of Christ, Composed of Disciples and the Assembly Churches. (See Global History 50 for more information.)https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/all_pamphlets/1005/thumbnail.jp
Minutes of the Fifth National Convention of Christian Churches in America
Get PDFMinutes of the Fifth National Convention of Christian Churches in America. [Held at] Jarvis Christian Institute, Hawkins, Texas. August 23 - 28, 1921.
Addresses included are:
Harry G. Smith, Ministerial Co-operation on the Unified Program of the Church
W. P. Martin, Church Erection and Extensionhttps://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/nationalchristianmissionaryconvention_minutes/1007/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 23 [sic] (1921) (Serial Numbers 487 - 537)
Get PDFGospel Plea, Volume 23 [sic] (1921) (Serial Numbers 487 - 537)
Serial Number 496 (March 12, 1921) on page four, W. P. Martin, Evangelist, reports the founding of the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee.
This volume mentions the work of Elder J. A. Keys several times. We know very little so far about this African American man of God.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1031/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 23 [sic] (1920) (Serial Numbers 435 - 485)
Get PDFGospel Plea, Volume 23 [sic] (1920) (Serial Numbers 435 - 485)
Serial Number 445 ((March 13, 1920) page four noted the deaths of J. R. Bryan (March 1, 1876 - February 19, 1920) and Elder Peter Price (March 7, 1846 - February 12, 1920).
Bryan, a white, was the President of the Mississippi Sunday School Association and Secretary of the Mississippi State Board of Mission. He was a strong supporter of Southern Christian Institute.
Price was with the Gay Street Christian Church in Nashville.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1028/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 23 [sic] (1919) (Serial Numbers 384 - 434)
Get PDFGospel Plea, Volume 23 [sic] (1919) (Serial Numbers 384 - 434)
The editor, for an unknown reason, in this and following years, labels every issue Volume 23, abandoning the sequence established in earlier years.
Pages one and two of the January 11 issue (Serial Number 385) deal with a controversy about African Americans and the railroads.
This volume, on the next to last page, has a full page on Instrumental Music. Disagreements on instrumental music in the congregations at Tupelo and Baldwyn caused the editor to write (or perhaps copy) the detailed pro-instrument arguments.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1027/thumbnail.jp