Category: Written

The Little Boy

The little boy missed his daddy. He asked his mother where he was. She said “he is out at the barn praying”. The little boy, being curious, went outside and listened. He could hear his daddy praying in the barn. A few years later, the boy was at his grandparent’s farm when he realized that […]

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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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