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McGary became interested in religion and studied the Alexander Campbell - Robert Owen debate of 1829.
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Austin McGary
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Born in Huntsville, Texas, to Isaac and Elizabeth (Visier) McGary, McGary"s father was said to have fought at the Battle of San Jacinto and to have guarded the recently captured Antonio López de Santa Anna. McGary"s mother died while McGary was a child. Before becoming an evangelist, McGary was elected sheriff of Madison County, Texas, a post he held for two years before resigning to work for the state of Texas in transporting prisoners to penitentiaries.
This work took place near the United States-Mexico border.
He began publication of the Firm Foundation in 1884, in his own words:
"to oppose everything in the work and worship of the church, for which there was not a command or an apostolic example or a necessary scriptural inference."
McGary"s position was often dubbed "The Texas Heresy" by its detractors. After resigning the editorship of the Firm Foundation in 1902, McGary lived in California and then in Oregon before returning to live in Texas.
Other later periodicals published by McGary included The Lookout and The Open Arena.
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