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Showing posts with label East Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Texas. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Elder Robert G. Green

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I am hoping/trying to identify Robert G. Green, who was involved in the organization of Union Baptist Church in 1838 near Nacogdoches, Nacog...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Missions and Anti-Missions

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Some people will not allow themselves to believe there is a distinction between being for preaching the gospel and starting churches ( missi...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

An Association Dissatisfied

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“Upon questions of policy…” “5th. That we disapprove of the policy of supplementing the Nacogdoches, Wichta (sic) Falls and other churches i...
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Friday, January 30, 2026

He Is Mine And I Am His

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I love the song He Is Mine And I Am His by G. T. Speer . Maybe it is just me, but I have always felt it was a good combination of “old scho...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

A Landmark Southern Baptist Association in Texas

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It is curiously intriguing that some modern-day Southern Baptists – particularly Southern Baptists with “anti-Landmark” sentiments – exert e...

Landmark Missionary Baptist Association of Shelby County

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  Cover, Minutes of the Landmark Missionary Baptist Association of Shelby County Constitution of the Shelby County Landmark Association (beg...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Bit-O-Baptist History

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Here are some interesting bits of Baptist history from the “Rules of Decorum” of the Ebenezer Church of United Baptists in Smith County, Tex...
Monday, October 07, 2024

God and the Sand

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Read  God and the Sand: 50 Year History of Old Prospect Baptist Church .
Saturday, October 05, 2024

Happy Anniversary, Old Prospect

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Tomorrow is the Fiftieth Anniversary of Old Prospect Baptist Church, organized October 6, 1974. Anniversary services at 2 p.m. Please join u...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Feet washing history

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Miscellaneous notes concerning the practice of washing the saints feet. It must be confessed, That if exact Practice be required, and clearn...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Cumberland Presbyterians in Rusk County

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My primary church history interest is in the Baptists, of course. However, I have other historical interests. One is my county, region, and ...
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Sunday, June 30, 2024

An East Texas song in an East Texas book

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Julian H. “Sharp” McNiel and Bernard N. Richards formed the McNiel-Richards Music Company in 1908. They published in 1909 Soul Songs and S...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

On Smyrna’s 150th Anniversary

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A Poem. On the sixteenth day of August In Eighteen Hundred Seventy-Three A church was constituted By a neighboring presbytery. From Zion Hil...
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Saturday, August 12, 2023

Death and Sacred Harp

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Researchers have written about “death and Sacred Harp.” They focus on the lyrics of the songs. Sometimes it can be more literal. Tuck Fulmer...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Sacred Harp, a Fair Attraction

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At the Central East Texas Fair held in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, September 18-22, 1928, Sacred Harp singing was one of the attractio...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Singing in Tatum, 1981

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Back in 1981, our Sacred Harp Convention met at the Cafeteria at Tatum High School. Ed Craig was the chairman and Alcie Craig was the secret...
Friday, August 04, 2023

The anti-missionary missionary

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My attention was recently brought to the article about Elder Daniel Parker on Wikipedia. Last year I warned how that “Wikipedia” is now “Wo...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Sacred Music

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At modern singings most of our time is taken up in singing. The exceptions are breaks, prayers, and memorial lessons (and sometimes a brief ...