By Jerry C. Ray Part I Authorities are concerned over the rising divorce rate. In 1890 there was one divorce to 16.9 marriages. In 1945 there was one to 3.2 marriages. Today the rate is about one in four. In 1919 there were 141,000 divorces in the United States, and in 1946 there were 550,000. From …
Yearly Archives: 2012
Neither Can They Prove The Things
By Earl Robertson Ananias the high priest, with the elders and Tertullus, the orator who talked with the governor against Paul me to make many charges (about four) against Paul to Felix. One can read the account of this in Acts 24. In this account one can easily see the hypocrisy of Tertullus and the apathy …
The New Restoration
By Wm. E. Wallace In early America, great swells of rebellion from innovation and error formed into a mighty movement back to the Bible. In New England, Abner Jones and Elias Smith rebelled from the Baptists; in Virginia James O’Kelley turned away from the Methodists; in Kentucky Barton W. Stone forsook the Presbyterians; in Pennsylvania the …
Preaching the Word
By Earl Kimbrough The last days of the apostle Paul were spent in a Roman prison awaiting death under the wicked emperor Nero. Not long before his death, the apostle wrote his second letter to Timothy. This was the last of Paul’s apostolic letters, and in it he shows that he was gravely concerned about the …