Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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  Articles By or About Women in Discipliana

  James L. McMillan

  Articles By or About Women in Discipliana

  A Resource for Women's History Month 2023

  The articles listed in the PDF are from the Disciples of Christ Historical Society’s periodical Discipliana. The lower-case Roman numeral refers to the volume number. For example, xxii is Volume 22. Next is the month or season of the issue, with the year. For example, Winter’73 is the winter issue for 1973. The last number is the page where the article begins.

  All issues of Discipliana are online in the DCHS Digital Commons. Click on the link in the right column in the chart to go to the copy of Discipliana where the article is. Browse to the page number for the start of the article.

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  Rosa Brown Bracy, The Negro Disciples of Christ

  Rosa Brown Bracy

  Rosa Brown Bracy, The Negro Disciples of Christ

  Bracy was the General Secretary of the National Convention of the Negro Disciples of Christ

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  Work of Disciples of Christ with Negro Americans

  Effie L. Cunningham

  Effie L. Cunningham, Work of Disciples of Christ with Negro Americans: A Resume of Church and Evangelistic Work, Educational Enterprise, and Social Service with Negroes in the United States

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  C. R. D. Whitfield, Brief History of the Negro Disciples of Christ in Eastern North Carolina: Past Achievements and Future Aims

  Charles R D Whitfield

  C. R. D. Whitfield, Brief History of the Negro Disciples of Christ in Eastern North Carolina: Past Achievements and Future Aims

  Charles R. D. Whitfield (1860-1944) was an elder in the "Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ."

  This fellowship was also known as the "Churches of Christ, Composed of Disciples" and the "Assembly Churches." (See Global History 50 for more information.)

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  Sarah L. Bostick, Beginning of the Missionary Work and Plans in Arkansas, 1896--By Mrs. Sarah L. Bostick, Colored--25 Years in Service--Historical Sketch up to 1918

  Sarah L. Bostick

  Sarah L. Bostick, Beginning of the Missionary Work and Plans in Arkansas, 1896--By Mrs. Sarah L. Bostick, Colored--25 Years in Service--Historical Sketch up to 1918

  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226053343/sarah-lou-bostick (1868-1948)

  http://discipleshistory.org/history/people/sarah-lue-bostick

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  Edgar Lapidoth Whitfield, A Message to the Negro Disciples of Christ of Eastern North Carolina

  Edgar Lapidoth Whitfield

  Edgar Lapidoth Whitfield, A Message to the Negro Disciples of Christ of Eastern North Carolina

  Edgar was the son of Charles R. D. Whitfield (1860-1944). Edgar's portrait is on the frontispiece. Pages 5-7 have a biographical sketch. A portrait of Charles R. D. Whitfield is on page 13.

  Edgar was born in 1888. We have not been able to find his date of death.

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  S. R. Cassius, Negro Evangelization and the Tohee Industrial School

  Samuel Robert Cassius

  S. R. Cassius, Negro Evangelization and the Tohee Industrial School.

  Samuel Robert Cassius (1853-1931) was an important African American evangelist in the Stone-Campbell Movement. This pamphlet is mostly about his concerns for the evangelization of African Americans and his concerns with racism within the United States and within the Stone-Campbell Movement. There is a little more than one page on the Tohee Industrial School at Tohee, Oklahoma.

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  S. R. Cassius, The Letter and Spirit of Giving and the Race Problem

  Samuel Robert Cassius

  S. R. Cassius, The Letter and Spirit of Giving and the Race Problem

  Samuel Robert Cassius (1853-1931) was an important African American evangelist in the Stone-Campbell Movement. In this pamphlet Cassius first (pages 7-24) draws conclusions about right and wrong giving from the examples of Abel, Cain, Noah, and Abraham. He opposes any giving that is not handled by the local congregation.

  In the Race Problem (25-32), he faults the South and the Church for the way African Americans are treated.

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  The Relations of the Church to the Colored People: Speech of the Rev. Dr. Tucker of Jackson Mississippi Before the Church Congress Held in Richmond Va. Oct. 24-27 1882.

  J L. Tucker

  The Relations of the Church to the Colored People : Speech of the Rev. Dr. Tucker of Jackson Mississippi Before the Church Congress Held in Richmond Va. Oct. 24-27 1882.

  Tucker was a Protestant Episcopal. Isaac McCoy Williams, identified as a "colored Campbellite minister of Jackson, Miss." responded to Tucker's speech on pages 29-32.

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  “The Contrast Fairly Stated,” a reply to N. L. Rice’s “Campbellism: its Rise, Progress, Character and Influence.”

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin’s “The Contrast Fairly Stated,” a reply to N. L. Rice’s “Campbellism: its Rise, Progress, Character and Influence.” The DCHS collection includes two editions of a tract by Benjamin Franklin, “The Contrast Fairly Stated.” The earlier edition, containing sixty-two pages, was published in 1856. Alexander Campbell commended the tract, stating: "Should anyone desire to have a full exposition of the sophistries, misrepresentations, and perversions of a certain tract by Rev. N. L. Rice, on some creations of his own, called “Campbellism—its rise, character and influence,” endorsed, too, and circulated by the Presbyterian Board of Publication in Philadelphia, he will find it lucidly, forcibly, and unanswerably done in a tract called, “The Contrast Fairly Stated,” a copy of which I received from Cincinnati. We are very confident no Presbyterian D. D. in the country will ever answer it, or meet its true and real issues." (Millennial Harbinger September 1856 page 534) The DCHS copy of the earlier edition lacks the title page but it is clear that the tract was published in 1856; Franklin had published it in two parts in the June and July issues of his monthly, the American Christian Review and Alexander Campbell, as noted above, had received a copy of the tract in time to review it in September 1856. The later edition in the DCHS collection has its title page, for which see the image included with this post. Our research in the weekly editions of the American Christian Review shows that Franklin first included advertisements for the tract in his column “Tracts for the People” in the January 27, 1863, issue of the ACR on page fifteen. This edition is 101 pages. Since the pages of the two editions are the same size, but the type font is smaller in the 1863 edition, we are assured that Franklin added more content. The 1863 edition, for example, includes fifteen chapters, while the 1856 edition had no chapter divisions. DCHS is happy to post this item from our collection. According to WorldCat, we are the only institution holding a copy of the 1863 tract. The 1856 edition is not entered in WorldCat and is probably rarer than the 1863 edition. A penciled note in the gutter of page three of the 1863 edition indicates DCHS received the tract as part of the “Edgar DeWitt Jones library.”