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- Autobiography Of Frank G Allen Minister Of The Gospel
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Dedication.
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. Birth and Ancestors. Family Circumstances. |Fist and Skull| Entertainment. Removal to Ohio and Return. Fight with his Mother. Gets Lost. His Father Buys a Farm. The |Improvements.| Plenty of Hard Work. His Opinion of Work and of Play.
- CHAPTER II. His First School. The School-house. The Teacher. The Order of Reciting. Spelling Matches. First Sweetheart. Extremes in Likes and Dislikes. Fondness for Study. Improvement in Schools.
- CHAPTER III. His Religious Experience. Tries to be a Methodist. Hopes to become a Preacher. Boy Preaching. Attends a Sunday-school. |Chaws| Tobacco. Goes to Love Feast. Mourners' Bench Experience. Is Puzzled and Disgusted.
- CHAPTER IV. Fun and Mischief. His Little Cousin and the |Gnats.| The Aurora Borealis. A Bumble-bee Scrape. Another Bee Scrape. Justification by Faith alone. Readiness to Fight. Love of Justice. No Surrender.
- CHAPTER V. Given to Abstraction of Thought. Cases in Point. Opinion of Debating Societies. Perseverance. Consumption. Endurance. More Comfortable Home. Death of his Father. Love of Fashionable Amusements. Meets his Future Wife. Is Married. Tribute to his
- CHAPTER VI. Goes to Housekeeping. Discussions with Mr. Maddox. Attends Meeting. Is Baptized by William Tharp. Double Damages for an Old Horse. Begins Trading. Moves to Floydsburg. Description of the Place.
- CHAPTER VII. Tries to Become a Politician. Fails. Last Act as a Politician. Tries to Join the Southern Army. Fails Again. His First Appointment. Feeling of Responsibility. His Plan. Text. Analysis of Sermon. Buys a Family Bible. Rules of Life.
- CHAPTER VIII. Resolves to Go to College. Friends Oppose. Wife Decides It. Hard Living and Hard Work. Impaired Health. Preaches for His Home Church. Father-in-law Dies. |Frank, Be a True Man.| House Robbed. |Scraps.| College Incidents. First Pay for Preach
- CHAPTER IX. Leaves College. Goes to Alexandria, Ky. An Adventure in Ohio. A Baby not Baptized. Peril in Crossing the River. Opens His School. Makes Some Money. Buys a Nice Home.
- CHAPTER X. Narrow Escapes. Is Thrown from a Horse. Has Pneumonia. Nearly Killed. Self-possession. Almost Drowned. Eludes Angry Soldiers. Reflections.
- CHAPTER XI. He Abandons the School-room. Remarkable Meeting near Alexandria. Incidents. Establishes a Church. Mischief-making Preachers. Long and Severe Attack of Typhoid Fever. Does not Lose Hope. Gratitude.
- CHAPTER XII. Sells Out at Alexandria. Moves to Crittenden. Preaches there and at Williamstown. Low State of these Churches. Plan of Work. Memorizing in Sunday-school. Lack of Church Discipline. One-Man System. Moves to New Liberty. Visits Mount Byrd.
- CHAPTER XIII. History of the Mt. Byrd Church. When Established. Where. Charter Members. Officers. Preachers. Number of Members. Three Things Contributing to its Prosperity. New House of Worship. Serious Trouble in the Church. How Settled. Method of Raisin
- CHAPTER XIV. He Moves to Mt. Byrd. Debate with J. W. Fitch. Preaches at Madison, Ind. Protracted Meetings at Columbia, Burksville, Thompson's Church, Dover, Germantown, Pleasant Hill, Burksville again, Beech Grove, Dover again.
- CHAPTER XV. Begins Preaching at Beech Grove. Debates with Elder Hiner. Amusing Incident. Holds many Meetings. Debates with Elder Frogge. Debates again with Elder Hiner. Repudiates Miller's Book. Sick Again. Holds more Meetings.
- CHAPTER XVI. Continues to Evangelize. Dr. Cook's Prescription. Incident at Glendale. Peculiar Feature in the Meeting at Madisonville. The Fractious Preacher at Sonora. Closes his Evangelistic Labors. Establishes the Old Path Guide. The Bruner Debate.
- CHAPTER XVII. Visits Midway. Attends the Missouri State Convention. Reflections. Annual Sermons. Last Protracted Meeting. Kindness of Mt. Byrd, Glendale and Smithfield Churches. Gives up Office Work. Goes to Eureka, Ill. Country Home. Takes Cold at the Le
- CHAPTER XVIII. Organizes a Church at DeLand. Health Improves. Relapses. Starts Home. Resignation. Sells His Interest in the Guide. Begins Writing again. Attends Two Conventions. Goes to Texas. At Home Again. Works On.
- CHAPTER XIX. Reflections on his Fiftieth Birthday. What a Wonderful Being is Man! Governed, not by Instinct, but by Reason. Man Lives by Deeds, not Years. How to Grow Old. Half of Life Spent in Satan's Service. Renewed Consecration. Last Three Birthdays.
- CHAPTER XX. Conclusion by the Editor. Tokens of Love from Many. Keeps Writing. Controversy with the Standard. Last Meeting with His Mother. Visited by Professors McGarvey and Graham. Commits His Writings to the Latter. Visits Eminence and Lexington. Many
- I.--CULTURE AND CHRISTIANITY: THEIR RELATION AND NECESSITY.
- II.--SELF CULTURE.
- III.--PLUS ULTRA VS. NE PLUS ULTRA.
- I.--CHRIST THE LAMB OF GOD.
- II.--CHRIST THE BREAD OF LIFE.
- III.--CHRIST THE WATER OF LIFE.
- IV.--CHRIST THE SON OF GOD.
- V.--CHRIST THE SON OF MAN.
- VI.--CHRIST THE GREAT TEACHER.
- VII.--CHRIST THE DELIVERER.
- VIII.--CHRIST THE GREAT PHYSICIAN.
- IX.--CHRIST OUR MEDIATOR.
- X.--CHRIST OUR MEDIATOR.--CONTINUED.
- XI.--CHRIST OUR HIGH PRIEST.
- XII.--CHRIST OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.