1856 THOS. O. SUMMERS. A Refutation of the Theological Works of Thomas Paine. Nashville Methodist. SpurgeonIn the aftermath of Thomas Paine's influential [to put it mildly] Age of Reason, Richard Watson authored what would become the standard response. Watson's work was issued repeatedly in cheap form, notably as part of the Christian Library Series by the American Tract Society, and distributed far and wide. Thomas Sommers, a notable Methodist divine from Tennessee and important educator among the Methodists felt that important arguments of Paine, indeed,
For a more detailed account of his career
Our preacher was either a very earnest self-educator
When the revival began
Macniven & Wallace
deeply spiritual seasons at the Lord's Supper in Woodbridge
The most significant of which are from Adolphus Vallings [1838-1918]
The Sentiments proper to the present Crisis
antislavery
would eventually marry another pioneer
M'Crea [an Indiana politician]
His ministry was
and all other that shall raise or conduct any other Forces for the ends aforesaid