Special Collections received an early Christmas present yesterday. Just before the morning service started Tom Milholland handed me this photo of a very young preacher in knee-breeches. Can you guess his identity? Check back tomorrow at noon for the answer! Here is one hint: taken when he just began preaching (at about age 15 or 16) this young man would be one of the most recognizable preachers among Churches of Christ in the 20th century.
We just received this lovely little 26-paged booklet. Compiled in 1956 by G.R. Tinius, it is a history of the earliest Churches of Christ in Belle Plaine, Kansas. It contains historical accounts of five different congregations: Palestine, Pleasant Valley, Council Hill, Belle Plaine, and Peck churches of Christ.
If you have any other interesting history on any of these congregations, please reach out and share. If you have booklets similar to this about local church history in your area, we would love to hear about it.
A few weeks ago the family Dr. Glenn Earle McMillan deposited with Center for Restoration Studies the class notes, academic research, sermon notes and some memorabilia from Earle’s career as minister and teacher. Shown here is a notebook he kept while a student at ACC; it contains notes he made in a course on the Greek Old Testament.
Included are materials from congregations he served, outlines and manuscripts of sermons, and many files of notes he used in preparation for his teaching at Abilene Christian College. The papers are in the processing pipeline. When processing is complete a finding aid will be published and they will be available for unrestricted research.
This photo and sketch was published in Batsell Barrett Baxter and M. Norvel Young, eds. Preachers of Today, A Book of Biographical Sketches and Pictures of Living Gospel Preachers. vol. 2. Nashville: Gospel Advocate Company, 1959, pages 284-285:
Dr. McMillan died in Abilene on 14 October 2013. Click here to read the obituary.