Saturday, August 31, 2019

The Historic Conferences at Lake Mohonk, NY

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Beginning in 1883, Albert and Alfred Smiley, twin brothers and devout Quakers, hosted the "Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Ind...
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Mrs. Sager on Modern Translations of the Bible

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On Sunday night, April 28, 1935, Meta Chestnutt Sager wrote to her sister-in-law, Clara Dixon Chestnutt, and complained about preachers and ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Meta Chestnutt Sager on the Christian Church's Neglect of the Poor and the Social Sources of Denominationalism

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The long, rambling letters that Meta Chestnutt Sager sent to her sister-in-law, Clara Dixon Chestnutt, include reflections on religion in Am...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Meta Chestnutt Sager on the Depression, Roosevelt, Prohibition, and Repeal

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Among the more interesting parts of the Meta Chestnutt Sager Collection is a small group of letters Mrs. Sager (1863-1948) wrote from her ho...
Monday, August 19, 2019

R. W. Officer's Letters to Meta Chestnutt 1890

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Sometime in June of 1890, the evangelist R. W. Officer sent a handwritten letter addressed to "Miss Meta Chestnutt, Silver City, I.T....
Thursday, July 11, 2019

U.S. Citizens and their Federal Government, c. 1900-1975

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This post is my answer to a broad question: How and why did the relationship between American citizens and the federal government change be...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Federal Census of the Texas Panhandle, 1880

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The last day or two, I've been spending time with the federal census of 1880. It's amazing. This was the first census following th...
Friday, March 01, 2019

James J. Trott: Missionary to the Cherokees, 5

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In spite of minimal help from congregations or from the Disciples' American Christian Missionary Society, by the end of 1859, James Trot...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

A Brief History of Hereford College (3)

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In January 1906, after just one semester at the helm, C. Q. Barton added his name to the growing list of former presidents of Panhandle Chri...
Monday, February 25, 2019

A Brief History of Hereford College (2)

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Note: This post picks up a series I began with A Brief History of Hereford College (1) . As they planned for the future college, members o...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Lockney and Panhandle Christian Colleges: Why They Died

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The Christian colleges at Lockney and Hereford, Texas began with worthy goals and high hopes. If nothing else, the structures they built, re...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Lockney Christian College (7): The Ledlow Years and the End of LCC

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In the summer of 1914, evangelist W. F. Ledlow held what was then called a "protracted meeting" (an extended series of sermons) at...