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Gospel Plea, Volume 18 (1913)
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The 344 pages of this PDF are filled with information about people and congregations in a wide variety of states.
This volume emphasizes serial numbers for each issue so that subscribers know when their subscriptions expire.
Issues now have twelve pages (up from eight) but Editor Lehman hopes to expand to sixteen pages.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1021/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 17 (1912)
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Number 16 page 4 notes the death of James E. Baker, former professor and principal of Warner Institute, Jonesboro, Tennessee.
This volume has several mentions of the good work of Harold D. Griffin, Baker\u27s successor at Warner Institute.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1020/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 16 (1911)
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With 280 pages, this PDF has 35 issues of Volume 16.
Reports from states and news about the schools appear regularly.
Number 11 (March 25, 1911) page 1 has a picture captioned Three Generations of S. C. I. Children featuring the family of King R. Brown (1861 - 1932).https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1019/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 15 (1910)
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Elder Andrew Jackson Hurdle (1847 - 1936) presided over the Northeast Texas District Convention at Kilgore, Texas. (Number 2, page 4.)
J. H. E. Thomas reports the death of Elder G. W. Crawford (March 16, 1849 - December 14, 1910) a prominent African American preacher in Texas. (Number 3, page 4.)
H. Campbell reports the death of one of the old pioneer preachers of the gospel of Christ in the state of Arkansas and the Creek Nation, Oklahoma, J. A. Waid, on November 9, 1910. (Ibid.)https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1018/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 14 (1909)
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The PDF of this volume, though incomplete, has forty issues, totaling 320 pages.
Editor Lehman tells the story of Jacob Kenoly (page 1 in the PDF).
We note that Moses F. Mitchell reports on the work at Louisville Christian Bible School. (Page 2 of Number 10.)
Page 4 of Number 10 reports on the new school for African Americans, Warner Institute, at Jonesboro, Tennessee.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1017/thumbnail.jp
Edgar Lapidoth Whitfield, A Message to the Negro Disciples of Christ of Eastern North Carolina
Get PDFEdgar Lapidoth Whitfield, A Message to the Negro Disciples of Christ of Eastern North Carolina
Edgar was the son of Charles R. D. Whitfield (1860-1944). Edgar\u27s portrait is on the frontispiece. Pages 5-7 have a biographical sketch. A portrait of Charles R. D. Whitfield is on page 13.
Edgar was born in 1888. We have not been able to find his date of death.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/all_pamphlets/1006/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 13 (1908)
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All of the early issues of this volume are missing. The first issue extant in the DCHS collection is Number 28, July 25.
Isom C. Franklin, Principal of Lum Graded School reports that catalogues are ready.
R. T. Matlock, Muskogee, Oklahoma, opines, Any white person who seeks to make strife and broaden the difference between the races is not a true friend to the country. Neither is any colored man who would do the same. (Number 32, page 5.)https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1016/thumbnail.jp
Gospel Plea, Volume 12 (1907)
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Editor Lehman reflects on race riots in Atlanta and Kemper County, Mississippi, in the first two issues of this volume.
More than thirty issues, totaling 278 pages, comprise this incomplete volume.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/gospelplea/1015/thumbnail.jp
John W. Monser, The Literature of the Disciples: A Study
Get PDFJohn W. Monser, The Literature of the Disciples: A Study
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94983625/john-w-monser (1838-1911)
Contents include:
Initiation of the Literature
Formation of the Literature
Classification of the Literature
Contrast between Present and Past Literature
Defects of the Literature
Readjustment of Literature
Outlook for Our Literaturehttps://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/all_monographs/1007/thumbnail.jp
The Louisiana Christian: Devoted to the Establishment of the New Testament Church in the State of Louisiana
Get PDFThe Louisiana Christian: Devoted to the Establishment of the New Testament Church in the State of Louisiana, Volume 4, Number 3, February 20, 1906
In Faith, Unity; In Opinions, Liberty; In All Things, Charity
Roy Linton Porter (1878-1938) of Lake Charles is Editor.
John A. Stevens (1857-1935) is Louisiana State Evangelist at this time.https://digitalcommons.discipleshistory.org/louisianachristianlakecharles/1000/thumbnail.jp