Gospel preacher and medical doctor.
A Memorable Meeting At Belgreen - During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Dr. A. C. Henry held gospel meetings and filled monthly appointments in Northwest Alabama. In 1883, after he brandished Zion's sword at Mt. Hope in Lawrence County and put to flight an aggressive "Campbellite killer" of John Wesley's brand, he followed the sun westward about twenty miles to preach in a gospel meeting, Monday through Friday, at Belgreen, which was then the county seat of Franklin County. This proved to be a memorable occasion. After the services of Wednesday, Dr. Henry performed the wedding ceremony of John T. Underwood and Ira Emma Grissom. In reporting the meeting, he wrote: "Bro. Underwood, student of T. B. Larimore at Mars' Hill College, is a young preacher of much promise." Underwood indeed became one of the ablest proclaimers of the gospel in Northwest Alabama during the remaining years of his life. Among those who attended this meeting was John Taylor who lived on Lost Creek a few miles west of Belgreen. This old warrior of Northwest Alabama was then nearing the end of his long ministry, even as John T. Underwood was beginning his. Dr. Henry wrote: "We also met the venerable John Taylor, a pioneer of the cause, worthy of double honor ‘for his works' sake.' He told me that he had baptized with his own hands over forty-five hundred. He is quite old and feeble (about seventy-six), but oh how he loves the cause of the Master." In that same meeting at Belgreen, Dr. Henry said he also met Lee Jackson, another of Larimore's "boys" who was then preaching in Franklin Country and later did great work in Mississippi. Among others who attended that meeting were the parents and sisters, with their husbands, of F. D. and F. B. Srygley. This was a short time before most of the Srygley clan in and around Rock Creek migrated en masse to Coal Hill, Arkansas, to which F. B. Srygley made annual trips for the next fifty years. Regarding F. D. and F. B. Srygley, Dr. Henry wrote: "It is no wonder they are preachers and love the work, with such a mother as they have." (Gospel Advocate, Nov. 21, 1883.) Imagine a meeting in a small country village with ties to so many monuments in Restoration history. What a meeting that must have been. ---Earl Kimbrough, Alabama Restoration Journal, 2009, Vol. 4 #1, page 17.
A Memorable Meeting At Belgreen - During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Dr. A. C. Henry held gospel meetings and filled monthly appointments in Northwest Alabama. In 1883, after he brandished Zion's sword at Mt. Hope in Lawrence County and put to flight an aggressive "Campbellite killer" of John Wesley's brand, he followed the sun westward about twenty miles to preach in a gospel meeting, Monday through Friday, at Belgreen, which was then the county seat of Franklin County. This proved to be a memorable occasion. After the services of Wednesday, Dr. Henry performed the wedding ceremony of John T. Underwood and Ira Emma Grissom. In reporting the meeting, he wrote: "Bro. Underwood, student of T. B. Larimore at Mars' Hill College, is a young preacher of much promise." Underwood indeed became one of the ablest proclaimers of the gospel in Northwest Alabama during the remaining years of his life. Among those who attended this meeting was John Taylor who lived on Lost Creek a few miles west of Belgreen. This old warrior of Northwest Alabama was then nearing the end of his long ministry, even as John T. Underwood was beginning his. Dr. Henry wrote: "We also met the venerable John Taylor, a pioneer of the cause, worthy of double honor ‘for his works' sake.' He told me that he had baptized with his own hands over forty-five hundred. He is quite old and feeble (about seventy-six), but oh how he loves the cause of the Master." In that same meeting at Belgreen, Dr. Henry said he also met Lee Jackson, another of Larimore's "boys" who was then preaching in Franklin Country and later did great work in Mississippi. Among others who attended that meeting were the parents and sisters, with their husbands, of F. D. and F. B. Srygley. This was a short time before most of the Srygley clan in and around Rock Creek migrated en masse to Coal Hill, Arkansas, to which F. B. Srygley made annual trips for the next fifty years. Regarding F. D. and F. B. Srygley, Dr. Henry wrote: "It is no wonder they are preachers and love the work, with such a mother as they have." (Gospel Advocate, Nov. 21, 1883.) Imagine a meeting in a small country village with ties to so many monuments in Restoration history. What a meeting that must have been. ---Earl Kimbrough, Alabama Restoration Journal, 2009, Vol. 4 #1, page 17.
Gospel preacher and medical doctor.
A Memorable Meeting At Belgreen - During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Dr. A. C. Henry held gospel meetings and filled monthly appointments in Northwest Alabama. In 1883, after he brandished Zion's sword at Mt. Hope in Lawrence County and put to flight an aggressive "Campbellite killer" of John Wesley's brand, he followed the sun westward about twenty miles to preach in a gospel meeting, Monday through Friday, at Belgreen, which was then the county seat of Franklin County. This proved to be a memorable occasion. After the services of Wednesday, Dr. Henry performed the wedding ceremony of John T. Underwood and Ira Emma Grissom. In reporting the meeting, he wrote: "Bro. Underwood, student of T. B. Larimore at Mars' Hill College, is a young preacher of much promise." Underwood indeed became one of the ablest proclaimers of the gospel in Northwest Alabama during the remaining years of his life. Among those who attended this meeting was John Taylor who lived on Lost Creek a few miles west of Belgreen. This old warrior of Northwest Alabama was then nearing the end of his long ministry, even as John T. Underwood was beginning his. Dr. Henry wrote: "We also met the venerable John Taylor, a pioneer of the cause, worthy of double honor ‘for his works' sake.' He told me that he had baptized with his own hands over forty-five hundred. He is quite old and feeble (about seventy-six), but oh how he loves the cause of the Master." In that same meeting at Belgreen, Dr. Henry said he also met Lee Jackson, another of Larimore's "boys" who was then preaching in Franklin Country and later did great work in Mississippi. Among others who attended that meeting were the parents and sisters, with their husbands, of F. D. and F. B. Srygley. This was a short time before most of the Srygley clan in and around Rock Creek migrated en masse to Coal Hill, Arkansas, to which F. B. Srygley made annual trips for the next fifty years. Regarding F. D. and F. B. Srygley, Dr. Henry wrote: "It is no wonder they are preachers and love the work, with such a mother as they have." (Gospel Advocate, Nov. 21, 1883.) Imagine a meeting in a small country village with ties to so many monuments in Restoration history. What a meeting that must have been. ---Earl Kimbrough, Alabama Restoration Journal, 2009, Vol. 4 #1, page 17.
A Memorable Meeting At Belgreen - During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Dr. A. C. Henry held gospel meetings and filled monthly appointments in Northwest Alabama. In 1883, after he brandished Zion's sword at Mt. Hope in Lawrence County and put to flight an aggressive "Campbellite killer" of John Wesley's brand, he followed the sun westward about twenty miles to preach in a gospel meeting, Monday through Friday, at Belgreen, which was then the county seat of Franklin County. This proved to be a memorable occasion. After the services of Wednesday, Dr. Henry performed the wedding ceremony of John T. Underwood and Ira Emma Grissom. In reporting the meeting, he wrote: "Bro. Underwood, student of T. B. Larimore at Mars' Hill College, is a young preacher of much promise." Underwood indeed became one of the ablest proclaimers of the gospel in Northwest Alabama during the remaining years of his life. Among those who attended this meeting was John Taylor who lived on Lost Creek a few miles west of Belgreen. This old warrior of Northwest Alabama was then nearing the end of his long ministry, even as John T. Underwood was beginning his. Dr. Henry wrote: "We also met the venerable John Taylor, a pioneer of the cause, worthy of double honor ‘for his works' sake.' He told me that he had baptized with his own hands over forty-five hundred. He is quite old and feeble (about seventy-six), but oh how he loves the cause of the Master." In that same meeting at Belgreen, Dr. Henry said he also met Lee Jackson, another of Larimore's "boys" who was then preaching in Franklin Country and later did great work in Mississippi. Among others who attended that meeting were the parents and sisters, with their husbands, of F. D. and F. B. Srygley. This was a short time before most of the Srygley clan in and around Rock Creek migrated en masse to Coal Hill, Arkansas, to which F. B. Srygley made annual trips for the next fifty years. Regarding F. D. and F. B. Srygley, Dr. Henry wrote: "It is no wonder they are preachers and love the work, with such a mother as they have." (Gospel Advocate, Nov. 21, 1883.) Imagine a meeting in a small country village with ties to so many monuments in Restoration history. What a meeting that must have been. ---Earl Kimbrough, Alabama Restoration Journal, 2009, Vol. 4 #1, page 17.
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