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Acknowledgments I would like to express my appreciation to the following individuals, whose advice and/or assistance I found invaluable in bringing this work to completion : James Tramel of the Words’n’Stuff Book Store of Van Lear, Kentucky; Karen Daniels, Patricia Patton, Esther Titlow, Lee Pack, Mary Ann Runyon, Gail Spradlin, and the rest of the staff at the Johnson County Public Library at Paintsville, Kentucky; Doris Nolan and Jessie Boyd and their coworkers at the Mount Sterling–Montgomery County Library, Mount Sterling, Kentucky; BrendaVance and her staff at the Bath County Memorial Library, Owingsville, Kentucky; Charles Heaberlin and Philip Dare of the Bosworth Library at Lexington Theological Seminary, Lexington, Kentucky; Sharman Hartson and her coworkers at the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee; Sondra Roberts and Nancy Bormes along with the rest of the staff at the Prestonsburg Community College Library, Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Brandon Cowles of Brownsville, Kentucky, Garry Watkins of Leitchfield, Kentucky, and Mark Hogan of Lindseyville, Kentucky, of the Green River Association United Baptist “family”; the succession of librarians and archivists with whom I have corresponded over the years at theAmerican Baptist Historical Society, Rochester, New York; the staff of the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky; and fellow medical technologist and Kierkegaard reader Janet L. Johnson of Endicott, Kentucky, for aid in acquiring periodicals, volumes, “minute” pamphlets, documents, and photographs vital to my research, by purchase, borrowing, gift, and interlibrary loan. Many thanks to Rev. E. K. and Phyllis Parker of the Disciples of Christ and Dr. James Stephen Wolfgang, religious scholar and member of the Church of Christ, all of Lexington, Kentucky ; Mrs. Anne Frye Caudill, widow of the respected Harry M. Caudill, formerly of Whitesburg, Kentucky, and now of NewAlbany, Indiana; John and Kim Price Short of Waco, Kentucky; and the many members of Christian Churches and Churches of Christ with whom I have been acquainted over the last twenty-odd years in Johnson, Martin, Floyd, and Pike counties, Kentucky, for their input (in several cases asked for, in many more over the course of my ministry volunteered quite vigorously) on doctrinal and practical issues within the Stone-Campbell movement. Also, thanks to Dr. Lanier Smythe of Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts , and Dr. George Schweitzer of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for their personal perspectives on the life and work of the late Dr. Richard Marius, an honest historian and the most godly, religious, and inspirational ix unbeliever that I have ever read. To Dr. John B. Boles of Rice University, Houston, Texas, and Dr. Douglas Foster of Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, for reading the primary draft of this manuscript and offering valuable criticisms and suggestions for its improvement. Likewise to Carol Jones, able successor to Micah Taul in the office of Court Clerk of Wayne County, Monticello, Kentucky; Dr. Glen Taul of Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky; regional historian Edward R. Hazelett of Paintsville, Kentucky; Durbin D. Feeling, Cherokee scholar and linguist of the University of Oklahoma, and Sky Campbell, webmaster of the Cherokee online community Cherokee-Online.com; the members of the Yahoo.com Eastern Kentucky Williams Genealogy Message Board; Carl and Hester Murphy Bowling of Van Lear, Kentucky; Jeanne Cobb, of Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia ; B. J. Gooch of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky; the Appalachian scholar Krista M. Loyd of Prospect, Kentucky; Dr. S. Brian Stratton of Alma College, Alma, Michigan; Judges James Trimble, William B. Mains, and Beth Lewis Maze, and Courthouse Security Officer Melinda Melkulcok, of the Menifee County Courthouse, Frenchburg, Kentucky; Jennifer Patton of the First Christian Church, Monticello, Kentucky; B. K.Allen of Central, Kentucky ; Bob Sloan, of Morehead, Kentucky; and cartographer Dick Gilbreath of Lexington, Kentucky. Preachers are often fond of both politics and swooping declarative pronouncements , even while denying an affection for either. Mea culpa. However, my tendency toward the latter vice at least has been curbed herein by the skillful copy editing of Derik Shelor of Shelor & Son Publishing, Greenville, South Carolina. Many thanks to Derik both for his honing and pruning of my grammar and his challenges to me for the clarification of my thoughts. I must also extend my warmest gratitude and best wishes to the staff and staff emeriti of the University Press of Kentucky, who have borne with me for the past several years: Joyce Harrison, Gena Henry, Ann Malcolm, Nichole Lainhart, Leila Salisbury, Allison Webster, Wyn Morris, Mack McCormick, Stephen Wrinn, Teresa Collins, Robert Brandon, Melinda Wirkus, Richard Farkas, Danielle Dove, Jim Russo, John F. Ziegler, Jennifer...

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