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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. Birth, Parentage, and Early Childhood
Page 11
CHAPTER II. First School--Early Calvinism
Page 22
CHAPTER III. Removal to Kentucky--Youthful Employments--Education--Card-playing
Page 28
CHAPTER IV. The Harpes--Great Revival--Death of Father--Responsibilities
Page 41
CHAPTER V. Seeks Religion--Experience--Baptism--Desire to Preach--At School
Page 55
CHAPTER VI. Zeal--Religious Doubts--Attempts to Speak in Public--Removes to Wayne--Marries--House-keeping--Call to the Ministry
Page 70
CHAPTER VII. Ordination--Doctrine--At School again
Page 87
CHAPTER VIII. Seeks a better Habitation--Speculation--Worldly Ambition--Removes to Alabama--Sad Calamity--Cold Plague
Page 96
CHAPTER IX. Returns to Kentucky--Preaches at Crab-Orchard--Raccoons
Page 110
CHAPTER X. Fukkerism--Change of Views--Nancy Hurt--Visits Northern Kentucky--Marries again
Page 118
CHAPTER XI. Union of Regular and Separate Baptists--North District Association--David Barrow--Jeremiah Vardeman--Removal to Montgomery County
Page 124
CHAPTER XII. Churches of Montgomery--Buys a Farm--Moses Higgins and the Shakers
Page 134
CHAPTER XIII. Financial Difficulties--Visits Alabama--Entanglement at Spencer
Page 142
CHAPTER XIV. Alexander Campbell--"Christian Baptist"--Investigation
Page 148
CHAPTER XV. Interview with ALexander Campbell
Page 161
CHAPTER XVI. Change of Views--Counts the Cost--Preaches the Ancient Gospel--New Translation--Opposition
Page 170
CHAPTER XVII. Lulbegrud--Opposition Organized--North District Association meets at Cane Spring--Charges preferred--Case laid over for One Year
Page 179
CHAPTER XVIII. Gives himself to the Cause--Jacob Coons and Absalom Rice--Arouses the Churches--Intemperate Zeal
Page 191
CHAPTER XIX. Creeds as Bonds of Union--Ancient Gospel and Order--Manner of meeting the Opposition
Page 203
CHAPTER XX. Schism--Ancient Gospel restored--Churches of Christ organized--Methodism--Violence threatened
Page 216
CHAPTER XXI. Debate with Dr. Fishback--Among the Methodists
Page 227
CHAPTER XXII. Mrs. Smith's Sacrifices--The Clergy--Jeremiah Vardeman--Jacob Creath--William Morton--George W. Elley
Page 237
CHAPTER XXIII. Boone's Creek Association--Bracken--North District meets at Lulbegrud--Triumph
Page 247
CHAPTER XXIV. Bracken and Licking--John P. Thompson--Boone's Creek--Her Constitution--Hiram Bledsoe--Curtis J. Smith
Page 258
CHAPTER XXV. Silas M. Noel, Raccoon John Smith at Frankfort--At David Chenault's--Division at Grassy Lick--Somerset
Page 276
CHAPTER XXVI. Reasons for leaving the Baptists--North District convenes at Unity--Resolves to Divide--Elkhorn at Lexington--Tate's Creek at Red Lick
Page 291
CHAPTER XXVII. Bracken convenes at Poplar Run--William Vaughn--Boone's Creek meets at Hind's Creek--Constitution sustained--James French--Disciples at Mt. Zion--Vardeman's Defection
Page 302
CHAPTER XXVIII. Jacob Creath, Jr--The Creed Question--Clear Creek Church--Creath indorsed by Smith--Great Crossings--Letter to Thomas Henderson
Page 314
CHAPTER XXXIX. John Taylor--Clerical House-breaker--The Beaver Decrees--South Benson
Page 323
CHAPTER XXX. Calvinists in Council at Lulbegrud--At Goshen--Baptist Customs--Franklin Association--Reformation denounced
Page 334
CHAPTER XXXI. Reformers gather at Spencer--Reply to their Opponents
Page 352
CHAPTER XXXII. Elkhorn Association at Silas--Turbulent Session--Reformers cast out
Page 365
CHAPTER XXXIII. Tate's Creek Association divided--Reformers cast out--Their Defense--Bracken divides
Page 376
CHAPTER XXXIV. Boone's Creek divides--Indiscretions--Legalism--John D. Steele--Reformation in the Green River Valley
Page 388
CHAPTER XXXV. Visits Stockton's Valley--Interview with his old Calvinistic Friends--With Isaac Denton--With his Mother--Isaac T. Renau--At Monticello
Page 400
CHAPTER XXXVI. North District dissolved at Somerset--Address to the Churches
Page 415
CHAPTER XXXVII. Baptist Customs--South Elkhorn Church accused and condemned--Tate's Creek Association--Called to Monticello--The Cause established--Design of Baptism
Page 422
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Arians--The Christians adn the Disciples--Barton W. Stone--Ground of Union
Page 428
CHAPTER XXXIX. John T. Johnson--Union proposed--Discussed--Accomplished
Page 447
CHAPTER XL. Smith as an Evangelist--His Address to the Brethren
Page 461
CHAPTER XLI. Tour to Stockton's Valley--First Fruits--At Sparta
Page 472
CHAPTER XLII. General Labors--First Annual Meeting--Boone's Creek--Creeds--Earmarks--Form and Substance
Page 483
CHAPTER XLIII. Text-Preaching--Smith's Style of Preaching--Baptism
Page 496
CHAPTER XLIV. Conference at Dry Run--Violent Opposition-Fork's Church--Mt. Pleasant Church--Cholera--Great Success in 1833
Page 504
CHAPTER XLV. Evangelizes in 1834--Debate with Whitney--Greek and Cherokee
Page 516
CHAPTER XLVI. Tour Southward--Cooperation--Controversy with Stephenson--Removes to Owingsville--New Scheme of Evangelizing
Page 528
CHAPTER XLVII. Political Opinions--R. M. Menifee--Disaffection--James G. Arnold--State Meeting at Harrodsburg--Controversy about Name
Page 538
CHAPTER XLVIII. General Labors--Characteristics--St. Louis--Sad Affliction--Removes to Mount Sterling--Dissensions--Removes to Georgetown--Peace and Reconciliation
Page 546
CHAPTER XLIX. Elder of the Church at Georgetown--His continued Usefulness--Anecdotes
Page 555
CHAPTER L. Death of Mrs. Smith--Lives with his Children--His Biography--Visits Missouri--The "Oath of Loyalty"--His Arrest--Last Days in Kentucky--Return to Missouri
Page 539
CHAPTER LI. His Labors in Missouri--His Sickness--Last Words--Death--Traits of Character--His Grave
Page 570

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578 p.
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5 1/2" x 8 1/4"

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February 7, 2010 Edited by 97.89.55.206 Added information about the title and physical dimensions, etc. of the book and added the "Contents" (all 51 chapters and descriptions) - John Smith was a brother to my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather.
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