AROUND OLD BETHANY A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis By R. L. BERRY Publisher's Preface This small volume was first published in the year of 1925, but it has been out of print for many years. The present reprint edition is in response to requests for it to be in print again. The main characters in this true-to-life narrative are led to Bible salvation, and then step by step into the various Bible doctrines, and finally to establish a congregation of the Church of God after the New Testament pattern. In the meantime, the snares of false doctrines which surrounded them were exposed and they were guided unerringly in the truth of God's Word. May the Scriptural truths set forth in this narrative enlighten every reader, and arm him with "the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God," to meet and refute the false teachings now abroad in our land. --Lawrence Pruitt Guthrie, Oklahoma May, 1968 Contents Chapter 1. Beginning the Search 2. A Threatening Quarrel 3. The Schoolhouse Debates 4. The Schoolhouse Debates (Continued) 5. The Schoolhouse Debates (Concluded) 6. What Church Shall We Join? 7. What Say the Scriptures? 8. Robert Davis' Battles 9. The Good Results of an Honest Confession 10. False Guides Appear in Bethany 11. Out of the Valley of the Shadow 12. The Revival Meeting in Bethany 13. The Babel of Tongues 14. A Model Church Established CHAPTER ONE BEGINNING THE SEARCH