The time studying under Larimore cemented a lifelong friendship which involved constant companionship, mutual public praise, and lengthy personal correspondence.
After his death, it was commented that "powerful, because honest earnest, intellectual, sincere, scriptural, and logical, in the pulpit, he was more and most potential in wielding the pen.
While his writings touched on the full scope of the issues facing the movement in the late 19th century, his main focus was on the constitution of the New Testament Church.
[6] Poor health eventually required Srygley to move from Kentucky to Tennessee where in 1889 he became a front page editor for the Gospel Advocate.
[7] The Gospel Advocate, under the editorship of David Lipscomb, was the leading paper in the conservative wing of the southern movement which would eventually become known as the Churches of Christ.