Rev. M. T. Lamb and the Golden Bible

While Rev. M. T. Lamb stayed in Eagle Rock less than a year, the facts that he (1) was the first resident pastor in Eagle Rock, (2) oversaw construction of the first church building in Eagle Rock, and (3) likely gained a new calling - that of outreach to Mormons - while in Eagle Rock, place him firmly with others that Jesus has sent to and from Eagle Rock and Idaho Falls.

Rev. Martin Thomas Lamb was born in Michigan in 1838[1] and ordained as a Baptist minister at age 22 in Illinois.[2] Upon graduation from college he applied to the American Baptist Missionary Union as a foreign missionary candidate but was told he wasn’t needed.[1,3]  So he gave what savings he had to foreign missions and then pastored churches for a number of years in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa, working with the American Baptist Home Mission Society.[1,3,4]  

In an interview more than 40 years later, Rev. Lamb reflected on his call to take the gospel to the unreached.[5] While reflecting on the "Great Commission" and pastoring a Baptist Church in Valparaiso, Indiana, he added up the attendance of all the churches in town and subtracting that number from the population of the city, discovered that 1500 people were not attending any church.  He then began a series of evangelistic meetings to reach them, but when interest lagged, he was about to give up in despair.  Switching his approach, he found an "earnest layman," along with a young member of his church, who supplied themselves with tracts and determined to visit every family in the community. Their efforts resulted in several hundred conversions, churches in town became crowded and teams from other denominations caught the vision to take the gospel to their neighbors. This pattern of finding an unreached segment of the population in a city or area and challenging laymen to reach them became a model for Rev. Lamb's ministry over the next 25 years. 

In December 1881, Rev. M. T. Lamb resigned his pastorate in Winchester, Illinois, to go to Butte, Montana, still with the American Baptist Home Mission Society.[6]  Within three weeks he had gathered and organized 30 people into the First Baptist Church in Butte and secured a place for them to meet for worship and preaching on Sunday mornings and evenings and for prayer on Wednesday evenings.[7]  His family was still in Illinois, and when he received a telegram from his wife reporting that his 7-year old son was deathly ill, he journeyed east to be with them.[8]  Returning to Butte after two months, he continued as pastor of the First Baptist Church, but also began travelling to the mining town of Glendale,[9] south of Butte near Melrose. During this time he also constructed a chapel in Butte, "open to all denominations of Christians alike for mission purposes at any hour on the Sabbath or an any time during the week when desired."[10]  In early July, 1882, the chapel in Butte was dedicated[10] and by mid-August Rev. Lamb had organized a church of 21 in Glendale.[11]

In late 1882 Rev. Lamb moved to Glendale and his family joined him.  By March of the following year he was making regular trips to Dillon to organize a Baptist church there, and once organized, to build a chapel.[12]  On one of his trips to Dillon, in August of 1883, he led a prayer and praise service for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and was one of five selected to formally organize the WCTU in Montana Territory.[13] 

In the fall of 1883 he took his family, by horse-drawn wagon, on a trip to Yellowstone Park.  Photos he took then and possibly on later trips became the content of later "stereopticon entertainment" programs he put on around the country to raise money for churches and for publishing his books.  An early version of his program, called a "magic lantern exhibition," was held in Pocatello in October, 1883.[14] By April of the following year, the Dillon Tribune reported that "Rev. M. T. Lamb of Glendale is giving very entertaining stereopticon exhibitions at the towns along the Northern Pacific railway. The papers report that he is doing well with his show and from that we infer that he will not return home an empty Lamb."[15]  

That same month, April, 1884, he began work in Eagle Rock and on July 1st he moved his family there.[16] Working under Rev. Dwight Spencer, president of the Baptist Home Mission Society and who at the time was residing in Salt Lake City, Rev. Lamb arranged to combine the Eagle Rock and Blackfoot fields under one pastorate.[17] Whether Rebecca Mitchell, who was seeking to recruit a pastor for the Baptists in Eagle Rock met Rev. Lamb through Dwight Spencer, or at a WCTU meeting, or in her travels to Dillon, or his to Eagle Rock to put on a stereopticon entertainment show is not certain, but what is well documented is that Rev. Lamb came to Eagle Rock to fill the pulpit of the Baptist Church, the first pastor of the church, and also to oversee the construction of the church building.[18] 

Construction of the church began in August 1884 and was completed in November of that year.[19]  By August, Rev. Lamb had also formed a Baptist Church in Blackfoot.[20]  During his months living in Eagle Rock and ministering in Blackfoot, Rev. Lamb undoubtedly encountered many Mormons. This prompted him to do a serious study of The Book of Mormon, comparing it to the Bible, which then led him to prepare a series of lectures, which he first gave in Salt Lake City.  Eventually his research and lectures were published as The Golden Bible – The Book of Mormon – Is it from God?.[21]

In the preface to The Golden Bible, he writes (in the third person):

“Believing, from his intercourse with Mormon neighbors and his contact with a large number of Mormon families, that the majority of them are honest and sincere in their convictions, and regard the Book of Mormon as inspired of God, he feels profoundly moved as he ventures to come before them with so unwelcome a message as the word “fraud” must necessarily be. And yet, having reached this conclusion by what seems to him irresistible logic and unanswerable arguments, he dare not, as an honest and conscientious Christian man, who must answer at the bar of God for faithfulness or neglect, withhold his conclusions.

 

And he takes this opportunity of asking sincerely and earnestly any honest Mormon, who, after carefully weighing the arguments herein presented against the divine origin of the Book of Mormon, if he can present a real satisfactory reply, to do so through the public press, or by private correspondence, only hoping that any replies made, whether public or private, shall he made in the same kind, charitable, Christian spirit the author has, at least, tried to maintain throughout this discussion…”[21]  

It's clear from many news reports of his lectures that his intent was to win Mormons to Christ and inform Christians what Mormons believed.  While it is not clear exactly when and where he first encountered Mormons, it's likely his burden for their salvation grew during his time in Eagle Rock and led him to then move to Salt Lake, which he did in late November 1884, just after the Eagle Rock Baptist Church was dedicated.[22]  He took a position as an assistant pastor of the Baptist Church in Salt Lake, but most of the early reports of his activities in Salt Lake concern his stereopticon art entertainment exhibitions.[22-24] While most of these shows featured images from Yellowstone Park,[23] one show focused on temperance and the effect of alcoholism on families.[24]

His research into Mormonism continued in Salt Lake and by mid-May, 1885, he was ready to present his findings. The Salt Lake Evening Democrat reported:

Tomorrow evening at the Baptist Church, Rev. Mr. Lamb will deliver a lecture on the “Book of Mormon - Is it from God?” It will not be a rehash of the old questions as to the “Spaulding Theory,” etc., but a careful examination of the book itself to find whether the impress of divinity is stamped upon its style, the character of its contents, the words used, the construction of its sentences, etc. It will be the estimate of a scholar and a student.  Rev. Lamb has given much study and thought to the internal evidences of the divinity of the Bible and he will apply to the Book of Mormon the same tests that have been, during the ages past, applied to the various books of the Bible to decide their age, their authenticity and their inspiration.  The lecture enters a comparatively new field of investigation and we advise our readers to go and hear it.[25]

This lecture was followed up in early June by a somewhat similar one, a history of the transmission of the Bible from ancient times to the present day,[26] but with the opposite conclusion, that whereas the Book of Mormon does not have internal or historical evidence of being from God, the Bible does.  In part, this lecture was to address charges made by Mormon leaders concerning the Bible:

This valuable and interesting historical lecture (is) designed to show how we know that the Bible as we now have it is the same as to its books and contents as when it was first given to the world, with a brief criticism of Apostle Orson Pratt’s attack upon the Bible.[27]

A year later Rev. Lamb mentioned the response to his early lectures in an address "Mormonism and How to Meet It" to an audience in Cleveland, Ohio:

 

One year ago last June I promised to give a lecture in our Baptist church in Salt Lake City.  I carried out my promise faithfully and many of the Mormons came to hear me.  I gave the lecture a second time and more came than the first.  The third time every inch in the church was taken up and the people were in the halls and outside the windows, which were open.  I gave it a fourth time in the opera house.  The subject of the lecture was “The Discussion of the Book of Mormon as a Book.” The mayor of the city had it published and many came to me urging me to give myself up to the work.  Finally I yielded and have been doing the work ever since.  I commenced a very careful investigation of The Book of Mormon which professes to be a record written 1500 years ago of the people living on this continent before that time and I have found that every statement of this book as to the character of the people living here at that time is false. I came east to put the result of my work and investigation in a book.…My work is to go back and try and reach those young people (Mormons whom I consider open to conversion).  I hope you will all pray for me...  If the time ever comes when they (the Mormons) are converted we want to be there to take them into our church.[28]

Rev. Lamb published his fourth lecture at the request of the Governor of Utah, Eli Murray, in booklet form, entitled "Book of Mormon - Is it from God?" and it was available for 25 cents in mid-August, two weeks after the lecture.[29] Response was both positive and negative, as reflected in this report from the Dillon newspaper:

Rev. M. T. Lamb, a Baptist minister formerly located at Glendale in this county, has been laboring for some time past to convert the Latter Day Sinners at Salt Lake.  Mr. Lamb will be remembered in this section as a zealous worker in the cause of Christ.  Mr. Lamb did not bring all of the sinners of Glendale into the fold, but his failure in the Glendale field may be attributed to the sinfulness of the people up that way and not to Mr. Lamb’s earnest efforts to lead them to the throne of grace. In Mormondom, Mr. Lamb had tackled the fraud known as “The Book of Mormon.”  He has published a little book entitled “The Book of Mormon – Is it from God?” The Mormon papers pitch into the pamphlet plenty and “lamb” Lamb in a manner intended to be unmerciful.  Mr. Lamb handles the matter ably and the reverend gentleman easily proves that the Mormon Bible emanated from the devil, or from the devil’s right bower, old Joe Smith.[30]

 Similarly the Butte newspaper reported on his meetings and booklet:

I am reminded right here of a little book your readers ought to be interested in both on account of the subject and its author.  It is a series of lectures, entitled “The Book of Mormon, Is it of God?” by Rev. M. T. Lamb, who organized the Baptist church in your city, was afterward at Glendale, then Eagle Rock and is now at Salt Lake City.  Persuaded that the Mormon stronghold lies in the faith the majority of them have in their Divine revelations, he studied their book carefully, subjecting it to the tests by which the Bible is proved Divine, viz. by internal evidence.  Having studied and proved, to his own satisfaction, not only the falsity, but the absurdity of the book, he announced his lectures, against the wishes and advice of his own church and personal friends.  But one of Mr. Lamb’s characteristics is to do as he thinks he ought, if the world is against him. His promise to discuss the subject fairly and gentlemanly, brought out the Mormons. They crowded the house the first lecture and were pleased and frightened and curious.  At the next lecture there was a larger crowd – all could not get in.  Well, everybody, Mormons and Gentiles, acknowledged the lectures aimed the deadliest blow at Mormonism yet dealt, and Governor Murray and other prominent citizens requested their publication.  So they are before the reading public, clear, decisive and to the point.  This is an unsolicited notice of the book.  I admire it and hope Montana folks generally will appreciate it.[31]

In the fall of 1885, Rev. Lamb spent four weeks preaching in Boise,[32] followed by presenting his stereopticon entertainment exhibition in Wood River, Idaho, for the purpose of raising funds for publishing a no-charge, larger edition of his lectures.[33]  

After a few months back in Salt Lake, for the next several years[34] Rev. Lamb traveled the country giving lectures on Mormonism. To Christian audiences, he described his work in Mormon communities, sharing difficulties in reaching them and his hope that disenfranchised Mormon youth could be converted.  To more general audiences he would begin:

“I am not here to abuse the Mormons, but to ask from you love and sympathy for the great body of the members of that religion.  They are not hypocritical.  The leaders may be frauds and hypocrites, but the masses are as sincere in their beliefs as you and I in ours.  The sincere, honest Mormon is a strange mixture, a religious puzzle. While religious, even fanatically so, he will adopt practices which we consider utterly foreign in Christianity.  The average Mormon is very religious, more so than the professors of other religions, and ready to make greater sacrifices for his creed..." [35]

Available sources show that his travels included:

1. Ocean Grove, New Jersey, August 1886 - speaking at the Women's Christian Encouragement Conference of the Women's Christian Union of Jew Jersey [36]

2. Philadelphia, late September and early October 1886 - first addressing the Proceedings of the North Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches on his evangelistic work among the Mormons and then to the same group on “Mormonism and How to Meet It,” which was followed by a discussion by three pastors and scholars [37]. Also on that visit to Philadelphia he addressed the Presbyterian Ministerial Association, presenting a paper on "Mormonism."[38] 

3. Lambertville, New Jersey, October 1886 - "The lectures on the Mormons by Rev. M. T. Lamb, assistant pastor of the Baptist Church of Salt Lake City, delivered in this city last Thursday evening was original in its manner of dealing with the Mormon question and in the facts brought out.  It gave one an insight of the difficulties besetting the question and the proper way of fighting this blot on our civilization.  At the close he still further interested his audience by reading from the Book of Mormon. Rev Mr. Lamb says there is little hope of converting the old Mormons, but their children are not so fanatical and set in their opinions and they may be won.[39]

4. New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, November 1886 - spoke in two Baptist churches [32]

5. Stamford, Connecticut, January 1887 - gave a lecture at the YMCA and preached in a Baptist church[40]

6. New York, New York, February 1887 - lectured at Union Theological Seminary; one professor was so impressed with the lecture that he ordered nearly 150 copies of Rev. Lamb's book to give to all the professors and the students of the seminary[41] 

7. Washington D.C., March, 1887 - spoke to the East Side Baptist Church on the Christian way of treating the Mormon Question, lectured on "The Mormons and Their Book" at Calvary Baptist Church, and also spoke on "The Mormon Question" at the First Congregational Church.[42]

8. Baltimore, Maryland, April 1887 -  spoke at a Baptist Church on "Mormonism and How to Meet It" [43]

9. Akron & Cleveland, Ohio, May 1887 - lectured at the Congregational Church in Akron and the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland[44]

10. Kalamazoo, Michigan, June, 1887 - gave multiple lectures at the First Baptist Church[45]

11. Council Bluffs, Iowa, September 1887 - gave his lecture on “Mormonism and How to Meet it” at the Presbyterian Church and also at the First Baptist Church[46]

12. Denver, Colorado, October, 1887 - "Rev. M. T. Lamb who has devoted his life to the subject of Mormonism, will speak on that subject in the First Baptist Church this morning."[47] A few days later he spoke on “The Book of Mormon” at the Second Congregational Church[48]

13. Malad, Idaho, January, 1888 - "The court house was crowded to its utmost capacity tonight with people anxious to hear the reply to the Rev. M. T. Lamb which was delivered by the Rev. Elvin of the Josephite Church. Evin took the stand and at once entered into his subject, which was delivered in a far inferior style to that of Mr. Lamb, who is spoken of here as having a very gentlemanly manner, and that which was so noticeable in Mr. Lamb – that of delivering his lecture in a way that could scarcely stir up the feelings of even the most devout Mormon – was entirely lacking in Mr. Elvin, who was so thoroughly wrapped up in his subject that he at times gave vent to his feelings and let go at the Rev. Lamb in a way that was thought by a very great many to be very ungentlemanly… Lamb will again speak tomorrow night ….[49] A report of Rev. Lamb's second lecture began, "Malad is wild with the lecture fever. People of all denominations flock from their homes and trudge through blinding snow storms to listen to the Rev's Lamb and Elvin from night to night.  The large and spacious court room proves to be entirely too small to accommodate those deeming admission..."[50]

14. Springville, Utah, March, 1888 - lectured on the Book of Mormon at the Presbyterian Church[51]

There are numerous announcements in Salt Lake newspapers from January to April of 1888 of Rev. Lamb preaching in the Baptist Church in Salt Lake. However the available references for the next 18 months or so, from all states, mention Rev. Lamb only twice, selling property in Salt Lake in January[52] and apparently purchasing ten lots in the same city in June.[53]  However in 1890, he again is very active on his speaking tour, giving lectures on Mormonism.  The Morning Call of San Francisco notes that he had gone on an 18-month tour of the East starting in early 1889,[54] but the absence of announcements or reports of any lectures by him in newspapers of that year suggests that this 18-month tour was more likely in 1886 and 1887.

Starting around July 1890 he did indeed resume his speaking tour, this time in cities on the Pacific Coast.  He lectured numerous times in San Francisco,[54,55] Oakland,[55d] then in the Mormon temple in San Jose,[56] and perhaps in other cities.  In a meeting with Congregational ministers in San Francisco, Rev. Lamb shared:

"The work of converting the Utah Mormons is most interesting.  They seem to crave long sermons, and my discourses always lasted from one to two hours.  Besides preaching to them. I discussed religious subjects with several of their 'wise men' in public debates, one of which lasted thirteen days.  My visit to the Pacific coast, among other things, is to look into the workings of the Mormons of California, of whom there are about 1000...."[55a]

In Washington state, he stayed long enough in Port Angeles to organize a church of 13 members and 65 children attending Sunday school.[57] The church was organized September 14, 1890; Rev. Lamb likely oversaw the construction of their church building in the next eleven weeks, and then early in the spring of 1891 he resigned.[57]  Curiously, a report of the Northwest Baptist Convention held in Victoria, British Columbia in early September 1890 shows "Rev. M. T. Lamb, Davenport, Iowa" in the "invited visiting brethren" list.[58] So apparently he had moved his residence to Iowa prior to his Pacific Coast tour. 

Rev. Lamb's name drops out of the news again in 1891, except for an announcement of him speaking to a group of ministers at the YMCA and also at Emmanuel Baptist Church in St. Paul, Minnesota in July, and in this notice he is referred to as "Rev. M. T. Lamb of Salt Lake City."[59]  

However, within a year the focus of his ministry changed dramatically, this time to unwanted and homeless children. First in Davenport, Iowa, he gave "what time he could" to helping place homeless children in Christian homes.[60] In late 1892 he was elected district superintendent for the Kansas City District of the Children's Home Society.[61] Then in 1894 he moved to New Jersey where he founded and directed a children's home which by the time he retired had placed close to 2,000 children in Christian homes.[62]  Though he retired from his position as superintendent of the National Children's Home Society in New Jersey in 1908, he then worked to raise an endowment for the institution.[1] 

In addition to The Golden Bible (1886), Rev. Lamb wrote several books dealing with evangelism, The Great Commission (1893), Every Creature (1903) and Won by One - The Call to Personal Evangelism (1908), and several books dealing with children, including Heredity: Being the Second in a Series of Four Booklets on Child Saving (1898), The Child and God (1905), and The Making of a Man: or, The Place of the Bible in Shaping Character (1909).[63]   

Martin T. Lamb's father, Aroswell Lamb, was also a pastor, as was his grandfather, Rev. Nehemiah Lamb. His mother, Phebe (Wixom) Lamb, died when Martin was 10; his father remarried the following year.  At age 21, Martin married Ermina Lee in Michigan. Martin and Ermina had one son, William, born in Iowa in 1875 and who died in Glendale, Montana at age 9.  They had three daughters, Elsie Amelia, born in 1862 in Wisconsin, Rosa Ermina, born in 1869 in Iowa, and Ruby Lee, born in 1883 in Glendale, Montana.[64]  Martin passed his interest in missions on to his daughter Rosa, who served with her husband as missionaries to India for 10 years.[1,65]  in

Rev. M. T. Lamb passed away in 1912, and his wife Ermina in 1926.[1,64]

References and Notes 

[1] Trenton Evening Times, Aug. 15, 1912, p. 1

[2] The Zion’s Advocate, Nov. 30, 1860, p. 3

[3] See newspaper article posted at https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2019/50/38755288_510f402e-edaf-4ba7-8452-a5235e2bcded.jpeg

[4] Christian Watchman and Reflector (Boston, MA), Oct. 31, 1861, p 2; Weston A. Goodspeed & Charles Blanchard, Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana, p. 140;  Publisher  F.A. Battey & Co.,  Chicago, 1882; The Standard (Chicago, IL), March 26, 1868 p 5; New York Herald (New York, New York), May 10, 1874 p. 7; Daily Illinois State Journal, Dec 1, 1881 p 4.  

[5] Trenton Evening Times, Jan. 8, 1901, p. 1.

[6] Daily Illinois State Journal, Dec. 1, 1881 p 4;  The Helena Weekly Herald, Jan. 19, 1882, p. 7. 

[7] The Semi-weekly Miner (Butte, Montana), January 21, 1882, p. 5

[8] Butte Daily Miner, March 1, 1882, p. 3. The health of his son improved and the family joined Rev. Lamb in Montana, but his son died in June, 1883.

[9] Glendale is now a ghost town

[10] Butte Semi-weekly Miner, July. 8, 1882, p. 5.

[11] The Semi-weekly Miner, Aug. 12, 1882, p. 3.

[12] Dillon Tribune, April 7, 1883, p. 5; Dillon Tribune, March 18, 1887, p 6; The Semi-weekly Miner, April 21, 1883, p. 2. 

[13] The Semi-weekly Miner, Aug. 4, 1883, p. 5.

[14] Dillon Tribune , October 13, 1883 p. 5.

[15] Dillon Tribune, April 12, 1884, p. 5.  

[16] That Rev Lamb began work in Eagle Rock in April 1884 is taken from his Ancestry.com profile posted by his great-great-granddaughter; the source is possibly "Forty Years with Baptist Pioneers in South Idaho" by Tracy Greer Gipson; that he moved his family from Glendale to Eagle Rock on July 1, 1884 is from the Dillon Tribune, July 5, 1884, p. 5.  Sources that indicate he had organized churches in both Eagle Rock and Blackfoot by early August 1884 [Dillon Tribune, August 9, 1994, p. 9] suggest that he had begun his visits to Eagle Rock and Blackfoot in the spring of 1884.

[17] Tracy Greer Gipson, Forty Years with Baptist Pioneers in South Idaho  

[18] Rebecca Mitchell, "Historical Sketches," printed in the Idaho Falls Times, September 26, 1905, p. 1.
[19] Idaho Falls Daily Post, Feb. 9, 1930, p. 18.

[20] Dillon Tribune, August 9, 1884, p. 9.

[21] M. T. Lamb, The Golden Bible, 1887; available online at https://archive.org/details/goldenbibleorboo00lamb; also as a reprint by Jim Spencer, 1998, https://archive.org/details/GoldenBibleBook/mode/2up

[22] Salt Lake Herald, November 29, 1884, p. 9.

[23] Dillon Tribune, December 6, 1884, p. 9. 

[24] The Salt Lake Herald, January 25, 1885, p. 2: "His set of eight views on the effect of alcohol on the stomach and twelve views on the downward progress of the domestic family, on account of strong drink and eight views on “The Bottle” by (George) Cruikshank, also (views) by many others.  

[25] Salt Lake Evening Democrat, May 16, 1885, p 5.

[26] The Salt Lake Herald, June 7, 1885, p. 13.  

[27] The Salt Lake Evening Democrat June 13,1885 p 5. 

[28] Plain Dealer, May 30, 1887, p. 2.

[29] The Salt Lake Herald, August 16, 1885, p. 5. The booklet sold for 25 cents in paperback and 50 cents with a cloth cover.

[30] Dillon Tribune, September 19, 1885, p. 5.

[31] Butte Semi-weekly Miner, October 24, 1885, p. 2.

[32] https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/108605351/person/110071367097/facts [ subscription to Ancestry required to view profile]

[33] Wood River Times, October 30, 1885, p. 4.  

[34] The Salt Lake Tribune reported on January 10, 1886 that Rev, Lamb would fill the pulpit of the Baptist Church in Salt Lake, which had recently been vacated by their Pastor, Rev. DeWitt. Available sources show him doing that until May, and then in August, 1886 he resumed his lectures on Mormonism, first in Philadelphia. Numerous reports confirm that he gave lectures around the country in 1887 and 1888. The Morning Call (San Francisco, California) of August 9, 1890, p. 9 reports that he began an 18 month lecture tour in the East in early 1889, which would be followed by a tour of cities on the Pacific coast, however this date may be in error.  Thus he toured the country giving lectures on Mormonism over a period of about four years.

[35] Salt Lake Herald, November 27, 1886, p. 5. 

[36] The Evening Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey), August 6, 1886, p. 3. 

[37] The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 1886, p. 2.

[38] The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 1886, p. 7.

[39] The Lambertville Record, October 20, 1886, p. 4.

[40] Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), January 14, 1887, p. 2.

[41] New York Tribune, February 17, 1887, p. 8. 

[42] Evening Star (Washington D.C.), March 12, 1887, p. 2; National Republican (Washington D.C., March 16, 1887, p. 3. 

[43] The Sun (Baltimore Maryland), April 2, 1887, p. 2; Excepts from his lecture are given in the Salt Lake Evening Democrat, April 27, 1887. p 5 and  The Republican (Oakland, Maryland), April 9, 1887

[44] The Summit County Beacon (Akron, Ohio), May 25, 1887, p. 3; The Cleveland Leader and Morning Herald, May 30, 1887, p. 3.

[45] Kalamazoo Gazette, June 7, 1887, p. 1.

[46] The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, September 11, 1887, p. 5; Omaha Daily Bee, September 11, 1887, p. 7. 

[47] Denver Rocky Mountain News, October 16, 1887, p. 20.

[48] Denver Rocky Mountain News, October 23, 1887, p. 17.

[49] Salt Lake Herald, January 5, 1888, p. 9.

[50] Salt Lake Herald, January 10, 1888, p. 7.

[51] Salt Lake Herald, March 2, 1888, p. 9.

[52] Salt Lake Tribune, January 3, 1889, p. 5. 

[53] Salt Lake Herald, June 15, 1889, p. 10.

[54] The Morning Call (San Francisco), August 6, 1890, p. 9.

[55] a) San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 1890. p. 6; b) San Francisco Call Bulletin, July 13, 1890, p. 5; c) San Francisco Call Bulletin, July 15, 1890, p. 5; d) San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 1890. p. 10; e) San Francisco Call Bulletin, August 9, 1890, p. 9

[56] The Evening News (San Jose, California, August 15, 1890, p. 3.

[57] Rev. J. C. Baker, Baptist History of the North Pacific Coast, American Baptist Publication Society, 1912, p. 225; https://archive.org/details/baptisthistoryof00bake/page/225/mode/1up?view=theater&q=lamb.

[58] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 6, 1890, p. 3.

[59] St. Paul Daily Globe, July 7, 1891, p. 4 & p. 9.

[60] The Chicago New Record, May 23, 1892, p. 14.

[61]“Children’s Home Society,” St. Louis Republic, November 13, 1892, p. 27.

[62] Trenton Evening Times, September 7, 1912.

[63] Most of Rev. M. T. Lamb's books are available online for reading and downloading; see is https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Lamb%2C%20M%2E%20T%2E%20%28Martin%20Thomas%29%2C%201838%2D1912; https://archive.org/details/everycreature00lamb; https://archive.org/details/MN41736ucmf_3/mode/2up and other sites.

[64] See Rev. Lamb's family tree at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lamb-1550 or https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9QMM-8N9. 

[65] Watchman-Examiner, a National Baptist Paper, February 8, 1940, p. 139 [this is an obituary of Martin's daughter Rosa, which states she and her husband were missionaries in India for 10 years; Reference 1, Martin Lamb's obituary, states that his daughter served as a missionary for 12 years.]