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AROUND OLD BETHANY
Contents
4. The Schoolhouse Debates(Continued)
5. The Schoolhouse Debates(Concluded)
9. The Good Results of an HonestConfession
10. False Guides Appear inBethany
11. Out of the Valley of theShadow
12. The Revival Meeting inBethany
Publisher's Preface
This small volume was first published in the year of 1925, butit has been out of print for many years. The present reprintedition is in response to requests for it to be in print again.
The main characters in this true-to-life narrative are led toBible salvation, and then step by step into the various Bibledoctrines, and finally to establish a congregation of the Church ofGod after the New Testament pattern. In the meantime, the snares offalse doctrines which surrounded them were exposed and they wereguided unerringly in the truth of God's Word.
May the Scriptural truths set forth in this narrative enlightenevery reader, and arm him with "the Sword of the Spirit, which isthe word of God," to meet and refute the false teachings now abroadin our land.
—Lawrence Pruitt Guthrie, Oklahoma May, 1968
CHAPTER ONE
It was in the year of 1885 that the railroad was put through theparticular corner of Missouri that marks the scene where the eventsof this narrative took place. With the coming of the railroad,there came an influx of new settlers, who were of variousnationalities and conditions in life. There were Swedes from Malmo,Germans from Dresden, and Irishmen from Tyrone, all bent onfounding a new home in the new country. Besides these, there wereAmericans of many kinds and inclinations. All of these settlersbrought with them the particular brands of religion in which theyhad been brought up. The Swedes and Germans were Lutherans, buteach nationality was of a different synod and had little agreementor fellowship. The Irishmen were Roman Catholics, while theAmerican