1856

TH GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. FANNING AND W. LIPSCOOMB, EDITORSVOL. IINASHVILLE, OCTOBER, 1856NO. 10 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 12 THE SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY Little did we think when we closed our remarks, in the September number, in reference to “the work of the Evangelist,” and especially touching his reward, that circumstances would so … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. Fanning and W. Lipscomb, EditorsVOL. IINashville, September, 1856NO. 9 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 11 “THE WORK OF AN EVANGELIST” In the August number of our paper we merely suggested a few items in the Evangelist’s labor, but the transcendent importance of the subject demands a much fuller examination than … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. FANNING AND W. LIPSCOMB, EditorsVOL. II.NASHVILLE, AUGUST, 1856.NO. 8.THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 10. EVANGELISTS Although in our various essays relative to the Church, and on “First Principles,” we have made many incidental remarks in regard to Evangelists, we deem the subject of such practical moment that we are disposed … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. Fanning and W. Lipscomb, EditorsVOL. IINASHVILLE, JULY, 1856NO. 7 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 9 THE WORSHIP OF THE SAINTS In the church of Christ alone can the worship of God be correctly performed; and consequently, the statement that “men can as acceptably serve God out of the church as … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. Fanning and W. Lipscomb, EditorsVOL. IINASHVILLE, JUNE, 1856NO. 6 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 8 DEACONS AND DEACONESSES The New Testament Deacons and Deaconesses were the servants of the respective congregations. Of course the term servant is not here employed in the sense of the word slave, but merely to … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. Fanning and W. Lipscomb, EditorsVol. IINashville, May, 1856No. 5 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 7 THE OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH – DISHOP, OVERSEERS AND PASTORS Every government on earth implies a right somewhere to ordain laws, subjects and executors of the laws. A democracy, in its widest and wildest sense, … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. PANNING AND W. LIPSCOMB, EditorsVOL. II.NASHVILLE, DECEMBER, 1856.NO. 12. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 14 CHRISTIAN UNION – CONCLUSION OF SERIES Can order, harmony, love and union be evolved from the hostile elements of the religious world? Men left to their own thoughts, we opine, will never harmonize. They must … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. Fanning and W. Lipscomb, Editors VOL. II.NASHVILLE, NOVEMBER, 1856.NO. 11. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 13 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM PENTECOST The law was to “Go forth out of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isa. 2), and Christian men everywhere agree that the church was … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. FANNING AND W. LIPSCOMB, EditorsVOL. IINASHVILLE, APRIL, 1856NO. 4 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 6 THE OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH In our last essay, we endeavored to show from the Scriptures of truth, that church organization has reference to planting with Christ, and rising in the body of the Lord, … Read more

THE GOSPEL ADVOCATE T. Fanning and W. Lipscomb, EditorsVol. IINashville, March, 1856No. 3 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST – NO. 5 CHURCH ORGANIZATION The Church of God is fitly compared to the human body. The infant, the day it is born into the world, exhibits all the organs of the body, as clearly as it ever … Read more