<P> The Sword of the Lord is published by Sword of the Lord Ministries, a non-profit organization based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which also publishes religious books, pamphlets, and tracts from a fundamentalist Christian perspective, as Sword of the Lord Publications . </P> <P> In 2012 the newspaper was a 24 - page, biweekly tabloid with a circulation of "just over 100,000 ." </P> <P> The Sword of the Lord was first published on September 28, 1934, in Dallas, Texas by John R. Rice, who edited the publication until his death on December 29, 1980 . At first it was simply the four - page paper of Fundamentalist (later, Galilean) Baptist Church of Dallas, where Rice was the pastor . The paper was handed out on the street, and Rice's daughters and other Sunday school children delivered it door - to - door . </P> <P> The Sword of the Lord moved with the Rice family to Wheaton, Illinois in 1940, and then to its present location in 1963 . Upon the Sword's move to Tennessee, Rice co-edited the paper with his brother Bill (1912 - 1978) until Bill's death . Curtis Hutson replaced Bill Rice as co-editor, and he became the sole editor two years later when John R. Rice died . Hutson died in 1995, and editorship passed to Shelton Smith, former pastor of the Church of the Open Door / Carroll Christian Schools, Westminster, Maryland . </P>

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