Additional information can be found in the Personal Sketch published in The West Virginia Pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Wheeling, WV: Frew, Campbell, & Hart, 1883). Other mentions appear in Prominent Men of West Virginia (Wheeling, WV: W. L. Callin, 1890); an 1889 issue of The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought for Pastor and People; and the 1904 Minutes of the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Thompson 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, Thompson 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.
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Burden Bearing and Other Sermons
John Rhey Thompson
A Prefatory Note states that “The sermons in this book were preached extemporaneously at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, 1883-84, and stenographically reported.” They were delivered outside Appalachia; they are included in the Library to help illustrate the full range of Thompson’s preaching.
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Christian Manliness, and Other Sermons
John Rhey Thompson
This book was published while Thompson was affiliated with the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Some of the sermons were part of a lecture series that took place on Sunday nights (p. 100). They were delivered outside Appalachia; they are included in the Library to help illustrate the full range of Thompson’s preaching.
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Use and Abuse of This World
John Rhey Thompson
"The Use and Abuse of This World," a sermon on 1 Corinthians 7:31, was published as Sermon XVIII of The West Virginia Pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Wheeling, WV: Frew, Campbell, & Hart, 1883).
