Believing deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers. Robert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being "self-made." In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright's instrumental role in Methodism's bitter "divorce" of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent "man of words" on the frontier, a self-authorizing "legend in his own time," and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure.

Above the billowing clouds there is a realm of beauty, light, and love. It is a kingdom that floats above the planets and shines brighter than the stars at night, brighter than fresh-fallen snow, brighter than whitecaps on the bluest ocean. This glorious place has a gate covered with pearls. The pearls glisten, setting the sky aglow with a lustrous light. This gateway leads to a city of golden streets lined with golden dwellings, their walls decorated with gemstones. The sparkle of cherry-red rubies, deep-green emeralds, and bright-blue sapphires reflects onto the streets and into the sky, filling the air and everywhere with dazzling rainbows of colour.

The war was over, and the valiant South lay in ruins. The soldiers returned home, defeated but proud and unvanquished. Jesse Gunter returned briefly to Alabama to see his family before he headed out to his little homestead in East Texas. He fell in love with Julia Anjaline Wakefield at first sight. Amidst the terrible devastation of their war-torn land, Jesse and Anjaline married and, with their family, traveled to Texas. This is the story of the little community of High Cotton, of family, friends, and neighbors who survived the ravages of war and worked together through hardships and good times. With faith and love, they forged a new life in a beautiful place that truly was just this side of heaven.

Th e night was bleak; intensely cold. Th e Connecticut River was a mute frozen ribbon of ice. Great drifts of swirling snow were steeped high on either side of its banks . . . Vermont was literally a glacier. Th e county of Fairlee had not seen nor felt the conciliatory rays of the benevolent sun for many days, and the small town lay grasped in a fi st of hushed white snow--witnessing a sickly glare by day and a cold blackness by night. Fairlee ceased to function. Schools, shops, offi ces and work establishments were all abandoned. Domestic pets were kept indoors at all times, and in the rural districts vigilant fi res were kept in barns and stables to prevent the perishing of livestock from the embittered hand of winter. Th e piazza-roof

Ray Pennington, a country preacher and pastor, spent many years studying the Word of God, spending many hours reading the writings of different authors of books about the Revelation of Jesus Christ. In 2005 God put a desire in Ray to simply read this great Revelation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It was during this year and in a very short period of time that God illuminated Ray's mind concerning this Great Revelation of Jesus Christ and he preached thirty-one sermons as the Holy Spirit inspired him. Through this experience of illumination given by the Holy Spirit Ray realized that we have been given a Teacher that is far above the commentaries of men. This book was not written as a commentary but God given illumination concerning The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Ray and his wife Dolly now reside in Staffordsville, Kentucky.