Digital Commons Network^™

Articles By Or About Women In Discipliana, James L. Mcmillan

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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 …

Rosa Brown Bracy, The Negro Disciples Of Christ, Rosa Brown Bracy

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

Rosa Brown Bracy, The Negro Disciples of Christ

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

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

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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.)

Work Of Disciples Of Christ With Negro Americans, Effie L. Cunningham

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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

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

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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

Edgar Lapidoth Whitfield, A Message To The Negro Disciples Of Christ Of Eastern North Carolina, Edgar Lapidoth Whitfield

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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.

S. R. Cassius, The Letter And Spirit Of Giving And The Race Problem, Samuel Robert Cassius

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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.

S. R. Cassius, Negro Evangelization And The Tohee Industrial School, Samuel Robert Cassius

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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.

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

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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.

“The Contrast Fairly Stated,” A Reply To N. L. Rice’S “Campbellism: Its Rise, Progress, Character And Influence.”, Benjamin Franklin

Stone-Campbell Movement Pamphlets

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 …