The Restoration Movement in Illinois: Christian County

Text from Nathaniel S. Haynes, History of the Disciples in Illinois 1819-1914, pages 135 - 139. This online edition © 1997, James L. McMillan.

Edinburg

Organized 1856, by A. D. Northcutt; present membership, 299; value of property, including parsonage, $5,500; Bible-school enrollment, 150.
Meetings were held in the schoolhouse till 1872, when a frame building costing about $1,800 was erected. This was struck by a cyclone in 1875, which picked up the structure down to the floor and carried it about ten rods. At the time the children were in the house, assembled about the organ and organist, practicing for a religious program. They were all uninjured. The house was immediately rebuilt. It was remodeled in 1901 and is still in use.
A. O. Hargis and Homer Turner have been given to the ministry.
In place of a Christian Endeavor there is a Kulture Klub of thirty young people for Bible study. Active C. W. B. M.