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HISTORY OF BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
The danger of any religious move
ment like that of a Separate Baptists
grows out of the fact that the per
sonal experience of divine grace does
not prevent the individual from the
blunders due to ignora&ce and the
mistakes which grow out of prejudice
Often these early Baptist preachers
whose religious experience thrilled
and quickened whenever it was re
counted made the most ridiculous
blunders in the interpretation of the
Bible. The ordained preachers of oth
er bodies, the Presbyterian, the Epis
copalian, the Congregationalist, were
men of education and their suppo&ed
lack of spirituality increased among
the Separate Baptists a poorly found
ed prejudice against education.
There is no exact report as to the
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STEIJSTBERG- UNDERSELLS THEM AT,T ■
Baptist membership in 1882. There
were approximately two hundred and
fifty churches with a membership
which probably exceeded fifteen thous
and. There were perhaps a hundred!
ordained minister, few of them educa
ted men. Georgia enjoyed a contact
with northern cities not possessed by
other Southern States Sailing vessels
were constantly plying between Sa
vannah and the Northern ports. Scores
of young men, graduates of Eastern
institutions came to the State, some
entering the ministry and others en
gaging in teaching and other porfess
ions. The influence of this northern
invasion has had a far-reaching in
fluence upon our Georgia Baptist life
Next to Jesse Mercer, the outstand
ing figure as w e survey the past o»e
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By Rufus W. Weaver, President of Mercer University in Christian Index
hundred years was undoubtedly Adiel
Sherwood. The following quotation
from the pen of Judge George Parchal
indicates something of the work of
Dr. Sherwood:
“It was in the year just mentioned
(1818), that Adiel Sherwood came
down from New York and settled in
Middle Georgia. He was a Baptist
clergyman of the working, liberal
kind. His classical education was
thorough, and: his theological educa
tion had been in the best schols. His
reading was varied, and his powers
as an elocutionist were of a superior
order. He looked over the field and
seemed to comprehend that the har
vest was ripe for the sickle, and the
laborers but few. His fame was
spread, and the Church felt that he
was sent to elevate it from a reproach
of want of learning, While Mr. Sher
wood adopted all the tenets of his or
der, he seemed to look upon illiterate
preachers as the blind leading the
blind. He therefore commenced an
unmerciful lashing of unlearned
preachers. If he did not reject the
whole theory of special calls, he
severely taught that those who had re
ceived them ought to educate themselv
es so far as to convey their ideas in
intelligible language.
“The admootV ns of this one man
were not unheeded. There was an
instance of a promising man, about
the same age as my mo r her, who had
b •.)*> L'eight up in the ciu.Jry and
was connected with a family which
became distinguished in after years,
who had received an ‘old-field educa
tion.’ He united himself to the Bap
tist church when quite young, was
called to preach and was really use
ful. For 'some time Mr. Sherwood
made the house of this popular preach
er, who was also a prosperous farm
er, his home. And so awakened did
this self-taught disciple become to
the necessity of mental culture, that
he gave up his pulpit for some years
until he had mastered at pretty thor
ough theological and classical coures
Then he became a powerful reformer
and baptized several thousand during«
twenty years of administration,
“The efforts of Mr. Sherwood wire»
not alone upon the preachers engaged
upon the work. The more wealthy
and intelligent congregations took up
young men, whom the charitable
called ‘beneficiaries,’ sent them
abroad and educated them for the min
istry. School houses w r ere erected and
I academies incorporated in almost ev
erv meeting house yard; better teach
ers were employed.
“The State was brought to aid in
the cause of education, by liberal ap
propriations of money, and a great re
form was inaugurated. Mr. Sher
wood seemed to be sent as a reform
er to. a people who, if they had not
made ignorance a merit, had not
thought it a reproach.”
The list of young men, progressive I
far-seeing, well educated, would be
headed by the name of William T.
Brantley, Sc., "a courtly, courteous,
highly cultivated minister and scholar
Other names would include Jabez P.
Marshall, grandson of Daniel Mar
shall, J. H. T. Kilpatrick, born in
North Carolina, highly educated with'
a spirit burning with zeal of missions
temperance, education and Sunday
Schools; Charles O. Screven, son of
the Revolutionary hero, General James
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Screven, graduate of Brown Univer
sity; James Armstrong, formerly a
Presbyterian student for the minis
try and a native of New York; Dr.
William Turpin, a native of Virginia,
and a man of great benevolence and
usefulness; Hon. Hark A. Cooper,
member of Congress, candidate for
Governor; General Reuben Shorter,
whose son, John Gill Shorter, later
became Governor of Alabama; Thom
as Stocks, for many years President
of the Board of Trustees of Mercer
University; Dr. Cullen Battle, fatheri
of President A. J. Battle, and Gener
al Cullen Battle of the Confederate
Army; C. D. Mallary,, a graduate of
Middlebury College, Vermont; James
Shanon, a distinguished scholar,
graduated at Bel/fast later
becoming President of William Jewell
College in Missouri; H. O. Wyer, born
in Beverly, Mass., and educated in
Waterville College, Maine; Iverson 1
L. Brooks, a graduate of the Universi 1
ty of North Carolina, a generous giv
er to educational and benevolent en
terprises; Wilson Lumpkin, who later
became Governor of Georgia ,and his
brother, John Lumpkin, a preacher of
great native ability; Joshua S. Calla
way, a self-educated man who became
a profound theologian; Vincent R.
Thornton, close friend of Jesse Mercer
and an orator by nature, and a score
of thores helped to make this history
of the Georgia Baptist Convfention
during its first decade.
The name of Billington McCarter
Sanders together with those who were
associated with him does not appear
until the plans were made for the
founding of Mercer Institute, the es
tablishment of which marked a new
era in the life of our people.
There was an extraordinary revival
period beginning with 1827 and con
tinuing for three years. The sermon
preached by Dr. Adiel Sherwood at
the Antioch Baptist church in Morgan
county produced results nothing less
than pentecostal. It is reported by
authentic testimony that 4,000 asked
for prayer. During this revival peri
od over 16,000 were received into the
membership of the Baptists chuhches
of Georgia by baptism. Dr. Adiel Sher
wood, who was pastor of the Baptist
church at Eatonton wher the revival
had its genesis, says: “I believe the
great revival had its origin in a la
dies prayer-meeting which had been
faithfully observed by a few pious
members of the church. Among those
Mrs Thomas Cooper, Mrs. J. Clarke,
Mrs. Flournoy and Miss Charlotte
Sherwood, my sister, who paid us a
visit about that time.” For fifteen
years afterward there were received,
into our Baptist church those who de
clared that their conviction of sin and
their interest in religion began with
the sermon preached at the Antioch
Baptist church by Dr. Sherwood.
Four years later the Georgia Bap
tist Convention met with the Big
Buckhead Baptist church. The breth
ren were depressed by the spiritual
reaction following the revival. They
deplored with great earnestness the
conditions which then existed and
placed special emphasis upon “a want
of carefulness in the admission of:
members and lack of close and good
ly discipline.” In large measure they
declared that an inefficient ministry
was responsible for the divisions, of
fenses and fierce controversies which
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existed .
It is probable that the missionary
enterprise came first in the thinking
of our Georgia Baptist leaders who
founded the Convention and who or
ganized auxiliary missionary societies
wherever sufficient interest could be
awakened All of these societies ceas
ed to exist, but the Mercer University
Missionary Society organized in 1833
has been revived and now holds the
most important position of any relig
ious body on the campus.
These leaders soon realized that the
only hope of securing a general and
hearty support of the mission pro
gram depended upon an educated min
istry. Adiel Sherwood led in the ef
fort to establish a school for the train
irig of pious young men whom God
had called into the ministry. The be
quest of Josiah Penfield. in 1928, the
resolution to establish a theological
and classical school passed by the
Convention in 1831, the movement in
behalf of higher education which was
then sweeping over Georgia led, on
January 14, 1833, to the opening of
Mercer Institute, with Billington Me
Carter Sanders as principal and Ira
O. McDaniel as assistant.. From this
time forward an annual report on this
institution was made by the Executive
Committee of the Convention and lat
er when a charter had been secured
it was made by the Board of Trustees
of Mercer University
(Continued next week)
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All creditors of the estate of Jas
F. Rackley, late of Burke county, de
ceased, are hereby notified to render
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debted to said estate are required to
make immediate payment. This 15th
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ceased, Sardis, Ga.—fit.
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