AND SERMONS, -BY- ELDER W. D. FRAZEE, Author of "Sunshine and Shadows in Southern Climate and Resources," "Ocean- NASHVILLE, TENN.: GOSPEL ADVOCATE PUBLISHING CO. 1893. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892, By W. D. FRAZEE In the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of California. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. MR Y daughter sent me a blank book with a request that I would fill it with sermons. I wrote in her book a short sketch of the church during the first century. It is not generally known that we have the writings of nine historians that have descended to us who lived during the first century. All of them wrote about the Christian church, and a part of them were acquainted with some of the apostles. I quote from some of their writings, and give a short account of the church, including the Lutheran reformation of 1540, the Presbyterian reformation of 1550, the Baptist reformation of 1660, the Methodist reformation, under Wesley, beginning in 1740, and the restoration movement under B. W. Stone, Levi Purviance and four other Presbyterian preachers, beginning June 28, 1804, at Cane Ridge, Ky., and A. Campbell who came to America in 1809. In 1811 he withdrew from the Presbyterian church and was immersed. In 1812 he prevailed on the church to change their name to the Disciple church, and in Jan., 1832, a union of the Christians under Stone, and the Disciples under Campbell took place, and Raccoon John Smith and John Rodgers were sent out to unite the Christians and Disciples. And who the preachers were for the first twenty-five years. Attending the annual meeting at Los Angeles, I read what I had written. The preachers requested its publication. A friend had it published, and it has met with a warm reception and a second edition is called for; and without the consent of her who had it written, or him who had it published, I have inserted their photographs, THE AUTHOR. |