In The Antiquities, Josephus mentions that the first human government was built by Nimrod, the mighty hunter from the book of Genesis. This appears to be consistent with Genesis; no other organized government (unless you count a “clan”) is mentioned before his. Genesis is, first and foremost, a book of origins, and thus this original human government can arguably be taken as archetypal.
Elder Daniel Wadkins (1818-1883), biracial and born free, was a member of the Nashville Christian Church on Church Street (probably since 1844). Originally a farm laborer, he became a teacher’s assistant in 1833 when the first school for free blacks in Nashville was started. He began his own school in 1839.
This article continues a series of weekly posts originally authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the 1800s. Learn
This article begins a new series of weekly posts authored by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the United States.
The article below was written in January 1866 by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the United States. Learn more
The following article was published by David Lipscomb in The Gospel Advocate on roughly January 30, 1866 — not even a year after the surrender of
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By six o’clock in the evening on the first Good Friday, the world was a different place—although no one knew it at the time. Jesus’s
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