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Originally Posted by Ohio
Interesting, SpeakersCorner.
During the "storm" of the late 80's/early 90's (perhaps before your time?) Bill Mallon in Atlanta began circulating another "obscure Brethren book" by G.H. Lang titled The Churches of God.
Lang wrote this book in the aftermath of the time when Darby, Wigram, et.al. took over all the so-called "autonomous and independent" local assemblies in the original Brethren movement, thus expelling (quarantining?) both gifted brothers Benjamin Newton of Plymouth and George Muller of Bristol.
Some of the events were so similar to what WL and LSM was doing at the time, that many so-called "rebellious" LC leaders found Lang's expose on Bible church ecclesiastical truths quite enlightening. Lang equipped the local assemblies against the heavy handed tactics of an abusive Headquarters.
The circulation of this book never made it to the Midwest, that I know of. TC ran defense for WL, allowing no other truths to "muddy" the waters.
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Interesting! I just began reading Lang's book, "The Churches of God" at the recommendation of another ex-LC brother. I had started a thread (on that other forum) discussing Broadbent's "The Pilgrim Church," when he recommended Lang's book, and I'm now rereading portions of that book together with Lang's - finding them very complimentary. The two books really shows so clearly how things went off the rails with the RCC. But it didn't happen overnight - it took a couple centuries and the seeds of that organization were present long before Constantine legalized and institutionalized the church.
I haven't gotten to the part in Lang's book that would relate directly to the LC, other than showing that any system of control man puts in place will cause the HS to take a back seat.
BTW - did you know Lang was involved in writing a biography on Broadbent? I read this somewhere, but haven't seen anything else related. Do you know anything about this?