Category: Written

Noah Webster

Portions of a letter from Noah Webster to Thomas Dawes, December 20, 1808: This candid avowal of your own opinions demands from me, a faithful and explicit exposition of my own, and the reasons on which they are founded. Being educated in a religious family, under pious parents, I had, in early life some religious […]

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Elder Benny Maggart

I was saved on Monday night, July 3, 1961, at Mt. Tabor Missionary Baptist Church near Pleasant Shade, TN. For a year I had sought the Lord at the altar on numerous occasions, sometimes in earnest but, often, out of other’s expectations. Facing the pulpit, I was sitting at the end of the fourth bench […]

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Sister Sherri Hoy

My grandfather, Elder F. L. Ray, was a missionary Baptist preacher, and I would go to my grandparent’s house for a week in the summer. It was always during revival time. I would hate it, because I knew we would have to go to church every night. But, we would stop and get ice-cream at […]

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