The Life Of Elder Raccoon John Smith

Author : John Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781541375659
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Elder Raccoon John Smith written by John Williams and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elder Sparks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171822
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raccoon John Smith written by Elder Sparks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Sparks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813123707
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raccoon John Smith written by John Sparks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Augustus Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Elder John Smith written by John Augustus Williams and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Augustus Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book Life of Elder John Smith : with Some Account of the Rise and Progress of the Current Reformation written by John Augustus Williams and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : JOHN AUGUSTUS. WILLIAMS
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ISBN 13 : 9781033210680
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : John Augustus Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
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Download or read book Life of Elder John Smith written by John Augustus Williams and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Augustus Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Download or read book Life of Elder John Smith written by John Augustus Williams and published by . This book was released on 1870* with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Augustus 1824-1903 Williams
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781373496409
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book LIFE OF ELDER JOHN SMITH W/SOM written by John Augustus 1824-1903 Williams and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Everett Donaldson
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ISBN 13 : 9780963134004
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Download or read book Raccoon John Smith written by Everett Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: