Life of Elder John Smith
Subtitle: with some account of the rise and progress of the current reformation.
By: President of the Daughters' College, Harrodsburg, Ky.
Publisher: R.W. Carroll & Co.
Published: 1870
Place of publication: Cincinnati
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
Subjects: Smith, John, 1784-1868
Description: Dark green hard cover
Table of contents: pagenum: 11
label: CHAPTER I.
class: chapter
title: Birth, Parentage, and Early Childhood; pagenum: 22
title: First School--Early Calvinism
class: part
label: CHAPTER II.; pagenum: 28
title: Removal to Kentucky--Youthful Employments--Education--Card-playing
class: part
label: CHAPTER III.; pagenum: 41
label: CHAPTER IV.
class: part
title: The Harpes--Great Revival--Death of Father--Responsibilities; pagenum: 55
label: CHAPTER V.
class: part
title: Seeks Religion--Experience--Baptism--Desire to Preach--At School; pagenum: 70
label: CHAPTER VI.
class: part
title: Zeal--Religious Doubts--Attempts to Speak in Public--Removes to Wayne--Marries--House-keeping--Call to the Ministry; pagenum: 87
title: Ordination--Doctrine--At School again
class: part
label: CHAPTER VII.; pagenum: 96
label: CHAPTER VIII.
class: part
title: Seeks a better Habitation--Speculation--Worldly Ambition--Removes to Alabama--Sad Calamity--Cold Plague; pagenum: 110
label: CHAPTER IX.
class: part
title: Returns to Kentucky--Preaches at Crab-Orchard--Raccoons; pagenum: 118
title: Fukkerism--Change of Views--Nancy Hurt--Visits Northern Kentucky--Marries again
class: part
label: CHAPTER X.; pagenum: 124
title: Union of Regular and Separate Baptists--North District Association--David Barrow--Jeremiah Vardeman--Removal to Montgomery County
class: part
label: CHAPTER XI.; pagenum: 134
title: Churches of Montgomery--Buys a Farm--Moses Higgins and the Shakers
class: part
label: CHAPTER XII.; pagenum: 142
title: Financial Difficulties--Visits Alabama--Entanglement at Spencer
class: part
label: CHAPTER XIII.; pagenum: 148
label: CHAPTER XIV.
class: part
title: Alexander Campbell--"Christian Baptist"--Investigation; pagenum: 161
title: Interview with ALexander Campbell
class: part
label: CHAPTER XV.; pagenum: 170
label: CHAPTER XVI.
class: part
title: Change of Views--Counts the Cost--Preaches the Ancient Gospel--New Translation--Opposition; pagenum: 179
title: Lulbegrud--Opposition Organized--North District Association meets at Cane Spring--Charges preferred--Case laid over for One Year
class: part
label: CHAPTER XVII.; pagenum: 191
title: Gives himself to the Cause--Jacob Coons and Absalom Rice--Arouses the Churches--Intemperate Zeal
class: part
label: CHAPTER XVIII.; pagenum: 203
title: Creeds as Bonds of Union--Ancient Gospel and Order--Manner of meeting the Opposition
class: part
label: CHAPTER XIX.; pagenum: 216
title: Schism--Ancient Gospel restored--Churches of Christ organized--Methodism--Violence threatened
class: part
label: CHAPTER XX.; pagenum: 227
label: CHAPTER XXI.
class: part
title: Debate with Dr. Fishback--Among the Methodists; pagenum: 237
title: Mrs. Smith's Sacrifices--The Clergy--Jeremiah Vardeman--Jacob Creath--William Morton--George W. Elley
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXII.; pagenum: 247
title: Boone's Creek Association--Bracken--North District meets at Lulbegrud--Triumph
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXIII.; pagenum: 258
label: CHAPTER XXIV.
class: part
title: Bracken and Licking--John P. Thompson--Boone's Creek--Her Constitution--Hiram Bledsoe--Curtis J. Smith; pagenum: 276
title: Silas M. Noel, Raccoon John Smith at Frankfort--At David Chenault's--Division at Grassy Lick--Somerset
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXV.; pagenum: 291
title: Reasons for leaving the Baptists--North District convenes at Unity--Resolves to Divide--Elkhorn at Lexington--Tate's Creek at Red Lick
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXVI.; pagenum: 302
title: Bracken convenes at Poplar Run--William Vaughn--Boone's Creek meets at Hind's Creek--Constitution sustained--James French--Disciples at Mt. Zion--Vardeman's Defection
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXVII.; pagenum: 314
label: CHAPTER XXVIII.
class: part
title: Jacob Creath, Jr--The Creed Question--Clear Creek Church--Creath indorsed by Smith--Great Crossings--Letter to Thomas Henderson; pagenum: 323
label: CHAPTER XXXIX.
class: part
title: John Taylor--Clerical House-breaker--The Beaver Decrees--South Benson; pagenum: 334
label: CHAPTER XXX.
class: part
title: Calvinists in Council at Lulbegrud--At Goshen--Baptist Customs--Franklin Association--Reformation denounced; pagenum: 352
title: Reformers gather at Spencer--Reply to their Opponents
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXXI.; pagenum: 365
title: Elkhorn Association at Silas--Turbulent Session--Reformers cast out
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXXII.; pagenum: 376
title: Tate's Creek Association divided--Reformers cast out--Their Defense--Bracken divides
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXXIII.; pagenum: 388
title: Boone's Creek divides--Indiscretions--Legalism--John D. Steele--Reformation in the Green River Valley
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXXIV.; pagenum: 400
title: Visits Stockton's Valley--Interview with his old Calvinistic Friends--With Isaac Denton--With his Mother--Isaac T. Renau--At Monticello
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXXV.; pagenum: 415
label: CHAPTER XXXVI.
class: part
title: North District dissolved at Somerset--Address to the Churches; pagenum: 422
label: CHAPTER XXXVII.
class: part
title: Baptist Customs--South Elkhorn Church accused and condemned--Tate's Creek Association--Called to Monticello--The Cause established--Design of Baptism; pagenum: 428
title: Arians--The Christians adn the Disciples--Barton W. Stone--Ground of Union
class: part
label: CHAPTER XXXVIII.; pagenum: 447
label: CHAPTER XXXIX.
class: part
title: John T. Johnson--Union proposed--Discussed--Accomplished; pagenum: 461
label: CHAPTER XL.
class: part
title: Smith as an Evangelist--His Address to the Brethren; pagenum: 472
title: Tour to Stockton's Valley--First Fruits--At Sparta
class: part
label: CHAPTER XLI.; pagenum: 483
title: General Labors--First Annual Meeting--Boone's Creek--Creeds--Earmarks--Form and Substance
class: part
label: CHAPTER XLII.; pagenum: 496
title: Text-Preaching--Smith's Style of Preaching--Baptism
class: part
label: CHAPTER XLIII.; pagenum: 504
title: Conference at Dry Run--Violent Opposition-Fork's Church--Mt. Pleasant Church--Cholera--Great Success in 1833
class: part
label: CHAPTER XLIV.; pagenum: 516
label: CHAPTER XLV.
class: part
title: Evangelizes in 1834--Debate with Whitney--Greek and Cherokee; pagenum: 528
label: CHAPTER XLVI.
class: part
title: Tour Southward--Cooperation--Controversy with Stephenson--Removes to Owingsville--New Scheme of Evangelizing; pagenum: 538
label: CHAPTER XLVII.
class: part
title: Political Opinions--R. M. Menifee--Disaffection--James G. Arnold--State Meeting at Harrodsburg--Controversy about Name; pagenum: 546
label: CHAPTER XLVIII.
class: part
title: General Labors--Characteristics--St. Louis--Sad Affliction--Removes to Mount Sterling--Dissensions--Removes to Georgetown--Peace and Reconciliation; pagenum: 555
title: Elder of the Church at Georgetown--His continued Usefulness--Anecdotes
class: part
label: CHAPTER XLIX.; pagenum: 539
title: Death of Mrs. Smith--Lives with his Children--His Biography--Visits Missouri--The "Oath of Loyalty"--His Arrest--Last Days in Kentucky--Return to Missouri
class: part
label: CHAPTER L.; pagenum: 570
title: His Labors in Missouri--His Sickness--Last Words--Death--Traits of Character--His Grave
class: part
label: CHAPTER LI.