LIFE AND MINISTRY OF JOHN R WILLIAMS 1851-1927 ~ A MISSIONARY WITHOUT A PEER

Description: *** Please visit my eBay Store for many more great selections *** TITLE: "LIFE AND MINISTRY OF JOHN R. WILLIAMS 1851-1927""A Missionary Without A Peer""Historical facts of a great and fruitful life in Gospel Ministry for more than forty years" AUTHOR: Ealon V. WilsonDATE PUBLISHED: 1967BINDING: SoftcoverPAGES: 50CONDITION: Very good. Clean/clean text. Please email me with any questions you may have about this books condition or contents before buying/bidding. *** Please visit my eBay Store for many more great selections ***Biographical Sketch On The Life Of John R. WilliamsJohn R. Williams was born in Marshall County, Tenn., December 31, 1851. When he was six years old his father died, leaving him and two sisters younger than himself to make their way in the world as best they could, by the help of their widowed mother. He was brought up to hard work on a farm, and from early boyhood was thoroughly drilled by necessity in the hard but important lesson of self-reliance. His opportunities in life were such as people ordinarily consider very poor.He attended free school before the war three sessions of three months each session. The war broke up all country schools, disturbed society, interrupted business and commerce of all kinds, and demoralized the people in general at a period in his boyhood when he greatly needed stable influences and environments in the formation of his character. However, the demand for hard work and constant employment to provide the necessaries of life saved him from the dangers peculiar to the evil days in which his boyhood was spent.When he was seventeen years old, he moved with his uncle to Obion County, West Tennessee, where he still lives. He was married to Miss Mollie Moultrie, November 7, 1871, who has been a faithful helpmeet in all his life work since then to the present. After two of his children were old enough to attend school, he entered school again himself, and continued five months, which closed his career in school. However, he was a diligent student, and he made good use of his time and opportunities by continuing his studies at home under whatever circumstances he lived.His first religious experience and practice were in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of which he was a member for four years. In July 1876, he abandoned the Methodist Church, and, following the way which to him seemed plainly taught in the New Testament, he was "baptized into Christ" (Rom. 6:3,4; Gal. 3:27) by J.H. Roulhac, of Union City, Tenn.With such helps as he could get, he applied himself to the study of law, and April 3, 1883, he was licensed to practice law before the county and magistrate courts of Obion County, Tenn. He continued the study of law as he practiced in the minor courts till November 13, 1885, when he was licensed to practice law in all the courts of the State of Tennessee: In July, 1886, one year after he was enrolled as a regular attorney with authority to practice in all the courts of the State, he was invited to preach at Wilsonville, Tenn. In this way he began the life and work of a preacher, which he has continued to the present day.He has labored extensively and successfully as an evangelist in Tennessee, Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kentucky. He has held eight public discussions--four with Missionary Baptists and two with Second Adventists.He is an energetic, industrious, and enterprising citizen, as well as a devoted Christian and a successful evangelist. He takes an active interest in business and industrial enterprises which promise to develop the recourses of his country and improve the condition of the people at large, but in all this he never neglects his Father's business in the matter of preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ. He has baptized many hundreds of people and has established many congregations of Christians. He has strong confidence in the power of the gospel to convert the soul, and he closely adheres to the word of the Lord on all questions of doctrine as a preacher; he is equally strong in his conviction that the Holy Scriptures given by inspiration of God are all-sufficient to guide Christians and churches in all matters of religious work and worship, anf or that reason he insists upon keeping clearly and safely within the limits of New Testament teaching and examples in all matters of doctrine and practice for both saints and sinners. He is an original thinker, a vigorous speaker, and a kind-hearted and gentle-spirited Christian.The field of his labors is gradually widening, and as he is as yet in the vigor of mature manhood, there is promise of many years of effective labor before him in the service of the Lord. F. D. Srygley -- Biographies and Sermons, c.1898. pgs. 114-117 keyword church of christ, christian, christ, christian church, disciples of christ, church history, sermons, church poetry, christian poetry, RESTORATION MOVEMENT

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