Jeremiah 6:16

Thus saith the LORD, "Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls."

But they said, "We will not walk therein."

 

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Written by Reverend Steve Williams   

 

 

Dr. Frank Charles Thompson was born in 1858, in Elmira, New York. He was ordained in 1879. His wife was Laura Boughton Thompson. While pastoring in Genesee, county, NY, he began to make extensive bible notes. Members of his church offered to pay for the publication of the marginal notes, which were in the bible.

 

 This photo shows the original hand-written notes in the margins of Dr. Thompson's personal Bible. This rare artifact, shows the beginning of the Thompson Bible, and is now on display at Kirkbride Bible Company offices in Indianapolis, Indiana. Curtesy of the Kirkbride Bible Company

 

The first edition of the Thompson Chain Reference Bible was published in 1908, by the Methodist's Book Concern of Dobbs Ferry, New York, and Thompson Chain rose to popularity by 1915. Now more than 4 million copies have been sold.

In addition to his work with the chain-reference- bible, Dr. Thompson wrote two books: Bob's Hike to the Holy City, the Adventures of a Boy Scout and His Sister on the Hill Trail, in 1927 and Barriers to Eden, A Tale of Social Blockade, in 1939.

 

 This is one of the few known photographs of Dr. Frank C. Thompson, D.D., Ph. D.. Curtesy of the Kirkbride Bible Company

Frank Charles Thompson died, in 1940.

 

 

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