. The Southern Baptist pulpit . skegee, Ala., Jul 56. lie was admitted to the bar at the age of nineteen, and practised law about three years. He began hisministry at Columbus, Mi--., in 1878, and has been signally suc-cessful in attracting large congregations, promoting denomina-tional int .id winning souls. Inheriting the oratoricaltemperament, Dr. Battle uses the pen but meagerly in preparingfor the pulpit, and. therefore, to be fully appreciated must beheard. Great audiences are often mightily swayed by his ora-tory, but in the pulpit he ever exalts the Cross and humblym (.0,1 for results.
. The Southern Baptist pulpit . skegee, Ala., Jul 56. lie was admitted to the bar at the age of nineteen, and practised law about three years. He began hisministry at Columbus, Mi--., in 1878, and has been signally suc-cessful in attracting large congregations, promoting denomina-tional int .id winning souls. Inheriting the oratoricaltemperament, Dr. Battle uses the pen but meagerly in preparingfor the pulpit, and. therefore, to be fully appreciated must beheard. Great audiences are often mightily swayed by his ora-tory, but in the pulpit he ever exalts the Cross and humblym (.0,1 for results. Mrs, Battle is the daughter of Rev.(and Hon.) J. L. Stewart, of North Carolina, and by her rarepersonal attra beautiful character, and devotion to thet Christ, greatly enhances her husbands lore-: College conferred upon him the honorary degreeof i» !•. A- pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Petersburg,Va., he is successor to a long line of distinguished and honoredmen in the Baptist ministry of the II. w. Battli . D D XI .STRAP. 7Kl P. I \. TI11 triumphant r to his church,v incongru that .in . thing .i for usI that I tie to the Corin- ? inthe alr^ :i elm:. ffinth, until at v rhal- ruth «»f the Timothy ai I Titus t C rinth • if we only h i«l the a Bph- Titn : in the heat of his right indi raid haw I T. | | S] that letter to he t, hut it : «l I: cans <\ the church - much-needed thinking, and thus tie to the Corin-thians, intended, in turn, to prepare the way far the Mre persona than Paul have found that it is not v to maintain ones equanimity under unju trm; l). C, during the Jubilee Session of the South-ern I M 133 134 THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST PULPIT cistn, especially when the aspersions relate to thefondest attachment and the supreme ambition of an ordeal reveals the man, and in its fierce lightgraces or defects stand forth in sharpest outlines. IfPaul never appeared more human, neither was heever more manifestly great, than when pou
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