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The Firm Foundation was a religious periodical published monthly in Houston, Texas, for members of the Churches of Christ.It was established in 1884 by Austin McGary. [1]: 337 The Firm Foundation was, for the next hundred years, one of the two most influential publications among the Churches of Christ along with the Gospel Advocate.
Hope International was an independent organization, operated by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It published Our Firm Foundation magazine and ran camp meetings focused on conservative Adventist messages, originally based on Eatonville, WA, then Knoxville, IL. [1] The magazine has ceased and the website is inactive.
The first Roman Catholic Church, called "Holy Rosary", was built in 1883 and a parochial school the following year. Originally called "Four Corners", the name was changed to honor Saint Isadore, the patron saint of farmers. A post office was established on July 27, 1892 and operated until May 15, 1912.
Austin McGary (February 6, 1846 – June 15, 1928) was an American Restoration Movement evangelist and publisher of a periodical entitled Firm Foundation, which was first published on September 1, 1884.
Centreville is a village on the western edge of the township, partially within adjacent Lockport Township. Nottawa is an unincorporated community in the southwest of the township on M-86, about two miles west of M-66 and four miles east of Centreville. Wasepi is an unincorporated community near the center of the township.
In 1884 a Texas preacher named Austin McGary, who had written some articles in the Gospel Advocate, began publishing the Firm Foundation, which—in contradistinction to Lipscomb's irenic manner, grace-laden theology, and more-inclusivist concept of fellowship—stridently proclaimed support for rebaptism, McGary's views on that subject being ...
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He served as Nottawa Township Clerk from 1868 to 1870, and in 1872 he was elected as the Michigan State Land Commissioner. Clapp also served as secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company and was president of the First National Bank of Centreville. [3] Leverett Clapp married Amanda E. Hampson on December 6, 1864.