Friday, November 29, 2019

The Growth of Public Education in Deaf Smith County and the Demise of Panhandle Christian College

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As early as 1891, 22 citizens of Deaf Smith County, Texas, petitioned for a referendum that might create a new tax. Revenues would support a...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

First Christian Church and the College at Hereford, Texas

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This post relates to my previous entries about Panhandle Christian College (1902-1911) in Hereford, Texas. It helps to explain why this coll...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Sources on Frazer, Greer County TX, and Altus, OK

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Handbook of Texas Online , Webb L. Moore, "GREER COUNTY," accessed October 25, 2019, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/art...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Frazer Cemetery and Bitter Creek, SW Oklahoma

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On Friday, October 18, I submitted final grades for the first 8-week Fall semester at Amarillo College and headed east to Oklahoma. My moth...
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Friday, September 20, 2019

From North Carolina to Indian Territory

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The train traveling west from Greenville, North Carolina, left the station three hours late. But Meta Chestnutt didn't mind. The only th...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

R. W. Officer Reports on Stone-Campbell Churches in I.T., 1890

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During the second half of 1890, only a year after Meta Chestnutt first arrived in Silver City, R. W. Officer reported on the state of Stone-...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

R. W. Officer Writes from Minco about Meta Chestnutt

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Part of R. W. Officer's report from Indian Territory in the fall of 1890 includes the following, written at Minco, I.T.: Miss Meta Che...
Sunday, September 08, 2019

Protestant Dominance in 19th-Century America and Stone-Campbell Churches

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During the nineteenth century, Americans could hardly fail to notice that although Protestant Christianity was officially non -established, ...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

J. Alba and Meta Sager at the Lake Mohonk Conference 1910

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In late October of 1910, Meta Chestnutt and J. Alba Sager traveled from Oklahoma to New York to attend the annual Lake Mohonk Conference of ...
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...