An American Religious Movement : A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ

by Winfred Ernest Garrison

An American
Religious Movement

A Brief History of the
Disciples of Christ

By
Winfred Ernest Garrison

CHRISTIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION
(The Bethany Press)
ST. LOUIS 3, MO.

Copyright, 1945
By
C. D. Pantle

First Printing, Sept., 1945
Second Printing, June, 1946

Printed in the United States of America

PREFACE

In an earlier volume, I recited the history of the Disciples of Christ under the title, Religion Follows the Frontier. The phrase was designed to emphasize the fact that this religious movement was born under pioneer conditions on the American frontier, in the days when the frontier was just crossing the Alleghenies, that much of its formative thinking followed patterns congenial to the frontier mind, and that its early expansion kept pace with the westward wave of migration.

Since that book is now out of print, while interest in the theme is increasing, it has seemed desirable to rewrite the history. If this were merely a sequel to the other, I would call it Growing Up with the Country.