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TITLE:   "RESTORING NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY"

"Featuring: Alexander Campbell, Thomas Campbell, Bartow W. Stone, and Hall L. Calhoun"

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DATE PUBLISHED:   1997

BINDING:   Softcover

PAGES:   111

CONDITION:   LIKE NEW.    

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Adron Doran

1909-2001

Adron Doran: Evangelist, Educator, Author & Scholar 1909-2001

On Thanksgiving Day of 2001, my dear old friend and brother in Christ, Adron Doran, left the land of the dying and went to the land of the living!

FEATURE WRITER FOR THE WORLD EVANGELIST

After his retirement from being president of Morehead State University in Morehead, KY at the end of 1976, Dr. Doran began writing for The World Evangelist and continued this until a few months before he went to be with his Lord and Master. He was an ardent supporter of this journal and greatly encouraged me. He was very active in promoting this paper's circulation wherever he preached.

Most of Adron's writings for The World Evangelist were on Restoration Church History. He frequently thanked me for asking him to write for this journal and he told me it was a great blessing to him to have this work to do in his retirement years. It was work, indeed! He was a research artist! I assigned him some subjects on which to write in Restoration Church History, but he selected many subjects. He researched some areas on this subject on which others had not written, and he did a great job.

In 1953 when Dr. Doran became president of Morehead State College about 700 students were enrolled there. During his presidency the college became Morehead State University. When he retired at the end of 1976 the university had about 7500 students, and many new buildings.

Dr. Doran and Dr. J. E. Choate wrote a book entitled: The Christian Scholar - A Biography Of Hall Laurie Calhoun.  Brother Doran wrote a book of sermons on Restoration Church History. I told brother Doran one reason his articles and stories were so well liked was because he wrote as though he was talking to people.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Brother Doran was born September 1, 1901 on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line in Boydsville about 20 miles from where I was born December 3, 1925 near Greenfield, TN. We both followed mules pulling plows in similar soil!

Dr. Doran graduated from Cuba High School in Graves County, KY in 1928. He was a student at Freed-Hardeman College in Henderson, TN 1928 to 1930. He earned B.S. and M.A. degrees at Murray State University in Murray, KY 1932 and 1948. He received his Doctor of Education degree from the University of Kentucky in 1950. He received Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from five or six colleges and universities. In 1971 he received the Horatio Alger Award from the Association of American Schools and Colleges at ceremonies in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. At that time only 200 had received that Award, including President Eisenhower and Bob Hope.

Brother Doran served on the Board of Directors of International Bible College, which is now Heritage Christian University, and he was a special Advisor for Dr. Charles Coil who was then the president of the school. Dr. Doran also served many years on the Board of Directors of Freed-Hardeman University. He received many other awards and served in many other positions too numerous to mention here.

MARRIAGE AND WORK

Adron and Mignon Louise McClain were married August 23, 1931. They celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary August 23, 2001. Mignon stood by her man in a signal manner! She was a great supporter of him in his preaching work and his other endeavors. She served as president of the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs. She was founder and long time director of the Personal Development Institute at Morehead State University. I fondly remember when she showed me through the facilities and features of this good work and program which was a great blessing to many MSU students. It was my privilege and honor to receive a Doctor's degree at MSU when she received her Doctorate there at graduation ceremonies in 1976.

HIS PREACHING

In his early manhood Adron became a Christian by accepting the Savior and being baptized into Christ for the remission of sins. (Romans 6:3,4; Galatians 3:27; Acts 2:38.) He started preaching when he was a young man. I heard him many times. He was a very good speaker. He caused his auditors to see with their ears! That is why he has often been called an orator.

Over 50 years ago I preached for brother Doran one time. He was preaching in a revival in Greenfield, TN and there were afternoon and evening services. He had to be away one afternoon and I preached in his place. When - I offered the invitation of our Savior, Dale Overton and Charles Cantrell responded and I baptized them into Christ.

Not all of Adron's public speaking was in pulpits. He served four terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives (1943-1951) and he was Speaker of that House 1950- 1951.

THE MAIN MATTER

In Ecclesiastes, Solomon taught that every accomplishment and every honor and all earthly blessings are "vanity and vexation of spirit" if one does not have God his Creator. He wrote, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." (12:13.) There is no Hebrew word in the original text of this passage for the word "duty." The translators put "duty" in thinking it would help to convey the message more completely in English, but it is not really needed. In the context of Ecclesiastes the obvious meaning is that having a sense of God's awesomeness and doing what he says for us to do is what it means to be a true and full man in God's sight! Adron Doran lived by this principle, and I am very glad he did! On Thanksgiving Day he went to be with his God and Father whose love and whose awesomeness motivated him to live according to God's will throughout his life.

Early in their time in Morehead Adron and Mignon took the initiative to get the Morehead Church of Christ started. Brother Doran helped greatly in getting brethren in many places to help with the cost of the meetinghouse.

HIS FUNERAL SERVICE

Brother Doran's funeral was conducted at Kerr Funeral Home, across the street from where he lived in Lexington, KY, on Sunday November 25, 2001 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Northcutt Funeral Home in Morehead, KY was in charge. Steve Johnson, George Rogers, Charles Moore, Don Flatt and I spoke at the funeral. Graveside services were conducted in Highland Cemetery in Mayfield, KY on Monday, November 26 by Mike Brumley, Harvey Elder, and I.

A group of singers from North Lexington Church of Christ sang beautiful hymns at the funeral. They were directed by Bart Rogers. A group of Christians in Mayfield sang beautiful hymns at the graveside service.

Basil Overton, World Evangelist, December, 2001, pages 1,2, Note: This is a timed piece. Some of those enlisted as living may be now deceased.

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