Southern Christian, Volume 5, Number 63 (December 19, 1896), Charles P. Williamson

Southern Christian

Southern Christian, Volume 5, Number 63 (December 19, 1896)

Williamson mentions a letter from Thomas Munnell (1828-1898), who was the first person hired as a state evangelist (for Ohio) in spite of stiff opposition to the innovation at the Lexington, Kentucky convention in 1863.

Page 4 notes a change in editors for the Christian Guide, from William James Loos (1851-1930) to H. King Pendleton.

Southern Christian, Volume 5, Number 62 (December 12, 1896), Charles P. Williamson

Southern Christian

Southern Christian, Volume 5, Number 62 (December 12, 1896)

Pages 1 and 2 give the Minutes of the Eighteenth Annual Convention of the Christian Church of Georgia, held in Athens, Georgia, November 23-26, 1896.

Obituaries for Miss Jannie Wilson (1873-1896) and Bryan Spencer Rutledge (1809-1896).

Several articles address drunkenness.

Southern Christian, Volume 4, Number 49 (August 22, 1896), Charles P. Williamson

Southern Christian

Southern Christian, Volume 4, Number 49 (August 22, 1896)

Charles P. Williamson remains editor.

This issue has a biographical sketch of William F. Reagor (1865-1938)

Erastus Lamar Shelnut (1865-1941) is Georgia state evangelist at this time.

Southern Christian, Volume 4, Number 47 (August 1, 1896), Charles P. Williamson

Southern Christian

Southern Christian, Volume 4, Number 47 (August 1, 1896)

Charles P. Williamson (1848-1903) is the only known editor of the Southern Christian.

It was first published in 1892, probably around the first of September, based on the numbering for this issue.