In 1885, a heckler came to Sam Jones‘ meetings. Thomas Ryman (1843-1904) was 42, a Nashville steamboat line owner. He had just moved into a new house, and thought little of this Christian evangelist. But the preaching turned his life around, and he talked to Jones about building a tabernacle for the revival. Seven years and $100,000 later (almost $3,000,000 today), the Union Gospel Tabernacle opened in Nashville on May 25, 1890. After Ryman’s death in 1904, and his funeral in the Tabernacle, the building was renamed the Ryman Auditorium. Featuring Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, and entertainers Will Rogers and John Philip Sousa, it became a cultural center. In 1943, the Grand Ole Opry moved to the Ryman Auditorium.
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From the Newspaper: the body was conveyed to the Methodist Church, and a funeral sermon delivered by the Rev. J. B. McFerrin. The speaker, in that portion of his remarks personal to the deceased, gave a brief sketch of his life and public career, passed a high and deserved eulogium on his moral character and unblemished integrity, and detailed in Read more...
In 1885, a heckler came to Sam Jones‘ meetings. Thomas Ryman (1843-1904) was 42, a Nashville steamboat line owner. He had just moved into a new house, and thought little of this Christian evangelist. But the preaching turned his life around, and he talked to Jones about building a tabernacle for the revival. Seven years and $100,000 later (almost $3,000,000 Read more...
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Publisher: Go Tell It on the Mountain The fact that we sing “Go Tell It on the Mountain” every Christmas is really a credit to the tenacity of John Wesley Work Jr., a former professor of Latin, Greek, and History at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In fact, C. Michael Hawn says bluntly: “’Go, tell it on the mountain’ Read more...
