“…but in an inspection of the Texas Baptist papers of the period one will find all the vitriol was not flowing from his pen.”

Good point. In this specific case, it would end badly for the deacon.

I believe that a deacon and a gun and an arguement will always end badly….just for who?

David

The SBC is slowly improving. It is doing so because voices are speaking out. Things that were formerly hidden from public view are not. But those changes have to be lasting, and we still have a ways to go. In the SB, there are many things I am thankful for. In the SBC, slowly there are things I am thankful for, but I have to know that the changes I am seeing are lasting, with more around the corner. Too many people have been ruined who shouldn’t have been. Christians who were shot down by their own. I haven’t gotten to the point where I can just forget that.

Having grown up in a church that censured B. H. Carroll and Baylor over their treatment of R. C. Burleson during this controversy, I guess I’m predisposed to have as high a view of Hayden as Cranfill. Joe Early has turned out one of the fairer treatments of Hayden I’ve read written by (the descendants of) his opponents. There are plenty of bad things that can be said of him, but in an inspection of the Texas Baptist papers of the paper one will find all the vitriol was not flowing from his pen.

Thanks

Jack

1 First Baptist Church, Triangle, VA (I, my two brothers and father were saved there)

2. First Baptist Church, East Hartford, Connecticut (My husband was saved there, my son and daughter were saved there and my husband was called to ministry there. Strong emphasis taught on Missions Home and Abroad.

3. Boyce Bible School, Louisville, KY., (They allowed my husband to learn enough to preach the gospel and prepared him for pastoring for nearly 23 years in KY.)

4…Oh, I can’t keep doing this. David is gone and he’ll take my book back if I highjack his thread.

I’m so grateful to be a Southern Baptist. Today as always. God has given me so many blessings through the people in the SBC. In fact, it was at a writer’s conference in Nashville that helped me begin publishing articles. I’ve met, loved and prayed for many a missionary I’ve met at Ridgecrest N.C. Oh, my! That’s another blessing of the SBC. And the Bible studies and authors who’ve been trained in our Baptist colleges and Seminaries. MY my. And the Baptist Hospitals who’ve helped save lives, birth babies and heal the broken hearted. There’s much to be grateful for.

My spam word is faithfulness. Had it not been for the faithfulness of Southern Baptists giving to Annie Armstrong offering, First Baptist East Hartford would never have existed. It started in a YMCA in liberal Connecticut. Had it not been for FBC East Hartford, two men I know would not have gone into the fulltime service for the Lord.

SBC majors on the majors. The minors eventually die away. selahV

It has been alleged that the recent loss by The University of Oklahoma Sooners to the Florida Gators is the result of extravagant living by Dr. Paige Patterson. I have substantiated this by contacting several of my sources at SWBTS I cannot divulge my sources for obvious reasons.

Jack