M. C. Kurfees

Rv Marshall Clement Kurfees 1856-1931. Born near Mocksville, NC, The son of Methodist parents, while young he labored on the family farm. He sought the Lord in his mid-teens and joined the Methodist church and read the New Testament, learning of the plan of salvation. He decided to become a minister. He worked his way through college and attended Transylvania College and the College of the Bible, graduating in 1881. He began preaching in 1882, and also began teaching in KY public schools. For awhile he taught school, preached, and attended college simultaneously. In 1887 he married Sallie E Eddy. They had no children. He also began evangelizing in KY, IL, and NC. In the process of evangelizing and baptizing hundreds of people he started a number of churches, often with great opposition. He debated with Quakers, Lutherans, Mormons, Episcopalians, Methodists, and Baptists, maintaining his high standards of Christian belief. He became an author. He pastored the Campbell Street Church of Christ, later Haldeman Avenue Church, in Louisville for 45 years. He became an editor of the “Gospel Advocate” from 1908-1924. He authored, “Instrumental music in the worship” (a work arguing against the use of mechanical instruments for corporate worship), many pamphlets, and several other books. He compiled “Questions answered by Lipscomb & Sewell”, which was published in 1921 after taking on the huge task of reading the writings of these brethren for 40+ years. He died at Louisville, KY.

John Perry