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| HOPKINSVILLE, KY., CHURCH. |
| This church was organized on the fourth Lord's day in November, 1832. Isaiah Boone, who assisted and advised in the organization, became the church's first regular preacher. Mr. Boone was an orator and a fearless champion of the ancient gospel. The love of that gospel, which still lives in its heart, the church first derived from his ministry. Not long after him Henry T. Anderson became the regular preacher. He was a scholar and teacher. He taught the church not only to love, but how to search the sacred Scriptures. The influence of his Christian scholarship was profound, and lasts until now. About 1850 Enos Campbell became the regular preacher. He also was a teacher and led the church and neighboring churches to found, in 1851, South Kentucky College. In 1853, Mr. Campbell's ministry, Alexander Cross, a negro slave, was purchased, educated and sent as a missionary to Liberia by this and neighboring churches. Cross was the first missionary from our people to a heathen people. The church has largely fulfilled, and is daily fulfilling, the ample prophecies of its beginnings. It has been characterized by a love of missions and a love of education, and an exceptional internal peace. It owns a good house, built in 1850, and a good parsonage, built in 1902, and has now more than 500 members. |
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| CHURCH OF CHRIST, JENNINGS, LA. |
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| HARRY D. SMITH,
Hopkinsville, Ky. |
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Born Hamilton, Mo., January 22, 1866; student
at Missouri State University and Kansas
State University, graduating with degree of A. B.
1887; degree of A. M. from Kentucky University
1903. Minister Olathe, Kan., 1886; West Side
church, Kansas City, Mo., 1890; Eureka Springs,
Ark., 1891; Marshall, Mo., 1893; Hopkinsville,
Ky., 1896; teacher of Bible and Evidences of
Christianity in South Kentucky College, 1897.
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| DAVID C. BROWN,
Jennings, La. |
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Born Alamo, Tenn., March 19, 1861; moved to
Louisiana 1893; very active in the cause in Louisiana;
made President of State Board in 1902. He
is an elder in Jennings church, brother of Jno.
T. Brown.
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