Lacy, Matthew Lyle, 1833-1912

Lacy was born in Virginia, and studied at Hampden-Sydney College and the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was an associate of John McElhenney, serving with him at the Old Stone Presbyterian Church in what is now Lewisburg, West Virginia. They were co-pastors from 1869 until McElhenney passed away in 1871; Lacy then served as pastor until 1882. After that, he pastored churches in nearby Monroe County, returning to Lewisburg in 1902 to take charge of a boy's school called The Greenbrier Academy (it later became the Greenbrier Presbyterial School and operated until the end of the 1971-72 academic year).

Additional information can be found in Chapters V and XI of John Fleshman Montgomery, History of Old Stone Presbyterian Church, 1783-1983 (Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1983).

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Lacy User Guide

Robert H. Ellison

The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.

At the moment, Lacy has only one sermon in the Library; it has a Guide of its own so the records will be complete. It includes the title, sermon text, date and place the sermon was preached, and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
Funeral Sermon

Matthew Lyle Lacy

On January 5, 1871, Lacy preached the funeral sermon for John McElhenney, his friend and fellow minister. The sermon was published in the Appendix to Recollections of the Rev. John McElhenney, D.D. (Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson, 1893), a volume compiled by McElhenney's granddaughter, Rose W. Fry.

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