. The Southern Baptist pulpit . ; -n of the Baptist I tan >mination in the United Statesof America i ? Foreign Missions, organized by thirty-three delegates, i s, in the cityof Philadelphia, on the eighteenth day of May, iBaptist people throughout the - d with this body for a • i -f thirt; In [8 ! [ the North and those of the South. The SouthernBaptist Convention w nized at Augusta, < on Thursday, th . i I May, of that year. Just have el mportant event, and we have met in the capital of our countryour separation that fifty yean k be- tween Northern and Southern Baptists was h
. The Southern Baptist pulpit . ; -n of the Baptist I tan >mination in the United Statesof America i ? Foreign Missions, organized by thirty-three delegates, i s, in the cityof Philadelphia, on the eighteenth day of May, iBaptist people throughout the - d with this body for a • i -f thirt; In [8 ! [ the North and those of the South. The SouthernBaptist Convention w nized at Augusta, < on Thursday, th . i I May, of that year. Just have el mportant event, and we have met in the capital of our countryour separation that fifty yean k be- tween Northern and Southern Baptists was happilycircumscribed in extent. It related exclusively tothe missionary operations which had hithertoconducted in common. The- fathers of that day were:ns that this point should be clearly understood,and that the extent of the disunion should not Iaggerated. The official addi nt forth by the Convention declared that Northern and Southern 1 II • • ft] -li-course on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Southern |)- 3. William Heth Whitsitt was born in Nashville. Tenn.,November 25, 1S41. When he was eleven years of age hisfather died, leaving him to the care and training of his mother,from whom he received the rudiments of an education. In1S57 he entered Union University and graduated with distinc-tion. He then spent one year at the University of Virginiastudying Latin. Greek, mathematics, and moral philosophy, andafterward took a two years course at the Southern Baptist Theo-logical Seminary. The two following years were spent in studyat the universities of Leipzig and Berlin, Germany. Returning to America in 1871 he entered the pastorate atAlbany, Ga., from which he was called in 1872 to a profes-sorship in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which heheld until his election in May, 1895. to succeed Dr. John in the presidency of that institution. That he shouldbe chosen by men who knew them both to succeed such a manefficient testimony to his character, his le
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