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A History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY William A. Mueller ,,\ 11,-:. ~ "/" \\,':: BRO A D MAN PRESS B P Nashville, Tennessee © 1959 • BROADMAN P RESS Nashville, Tennessee All rights reserved International copyright secured 423-08039 Library of Congress catalog card number 59-9687 Printed in the United States of America 5.N58KSP To All the Alumni Preface HE DREAMS, devotion, and insight of James Petigru Boyce brought into focus the desires of Southern Baptists for a Tcentral theological institution and thus determined that a cen tennial history of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary would have to be written at this time. It is appropriate, therefore, to let Dr. Boyce set the tone of this preface. The Civil War had driven the Seminary from its original home in Greenville, South Carolina, to Louisville, Kentucky. On the occasion of the opening session in this new home, September 1, 1877, Dr. Boyce looked back over the first eighteen years of sig nificant struggle and said: I do not propose to recount the history of this enterprise. That history, so far as it ever can be written, must await the full fruition of all our hopes, and should come from one less intimately asso ciated with it than I have been. It never can be written in full; it never ought to be thus written. It is only God's inspiration which dares speak of evils and faults and injuries and calumnies proceeding from men whom we know to be good. That inspired Word alone can make these simply the shadows which bring out more gloriously the brightness of the character of the good. -
David Tappan
THE HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AT HARVARD COLLEGE, THE REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN The ancestor of this family, Abraham Toppan, had come to this continent from Yarmouth, England in 1637, there had been any number of intervening generations, and then the father of David Tappan, the Reverend Benjamin Tappan, who had gotten married with Elizabeth Marsh, had been pastor of a church in Manchester, Massachusetts from 1720 to 1790. HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1752 April 21, Monday: David Tappan was born in Manchester, Massachusetts to the Reverend Benjamin Tappan and Elizabeth Marsh Tappan. In addition to David there would be 11 children in that family, Benjamin, Samuel, Mary, Wigglesworth (who would die a bachelor), Abigail, Samuel, Ebenezer, Michael, Elizabeth, Patty, and Amos. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT The Tappan Family “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX REVEREND DAVID TAPPAN THE TAPPAN FAMILY 1771 James Madison, Jr. graduated from the College of New Jersey (during his education he seems to have compiled ABRIEF SYSTEM OF LOGICK on the basis of lectures offered by the Reverend John Witherspoon). PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ...The arbitrary signs of Ideas have been invented & instituted by Men for the communication of their thoughts to one another, & discover their not being Natural but artificial by their being in various Countries and Ages, various and changeable. The Brute creation have nothing but the Language of Nature, which is intelligible to all those of the same species; but being given only for necessary Uses, makes their conversation and correspondence very narrow and confin’d. -
Table of Contents PROCEEDINGS One Hundred and Fifth Meeting
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 23, 1934-1935 Table of Contents PROCEEDINGS One hundred and fifth meeting...................................................5 One hundred and sixth meeting..................................................7 One hundred and seventh meeting..............................................9 One hundred and eighth meeting................................................10 One hundred and ninth meeting..................................................11 One hundred and tenth meeting..................................................13 One hundred and eleventh meeting.............................................15 One hundred and twelfth meeting................................................16 PAPERS Christ Church, Cambridge........................................................17 By John Perkins Brown Thirty-eight Quincy Street........................................................24 By David T Pottinger Extracts from the Reminiscences of Isabella Batchelder James.........................................................................49 By Mary Isabella Gozzaldi James Russell Lowell As I Knew Him...........................................61 By Isabella Batchelder James Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes..............................................67 By Rev. Samuel Atkins Eliot Mary Isabella Gozzaldi...............................................................72 By Fanny Elizabeth Corne Kirkland Place...........................................................................76 By France -
Sarah Holmes Tappan
SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN The oft-repeated supposition that Sarah Holmes was a great-niece of Benjamin Franklin is founded upon a family tradition that their relative Mary Franklin had been an aunt of Benjamin Franklin, and there is no preserved verification that such was indeed the case. The concept that any number of the Tappan male offspring would receive the name “Benjamin” in order to evoke this supposed association with the famous family of Franklin is clearly spurious as the name “Benjamin” had been popular among the Tappans from the very beginnings of that family in America. HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1747 October 21, Wednesday (Old Style): Birth of Benjamin Tappan in Manchester, Massachusetts. TAPPAN FAMILY LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. Sarah Holmes Tappan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1748 January 2, Saturday (1747, Old Style): Sarah Holmes was born in Boston, a daughter of William Holmes, Sr. with Rebecca Holmes. TAPPAN FAMILY THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT Sarah Holmes Tappan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1760 The population of Boston at this point was 15,631, of which some 8% were black. Ordinarily, racial minorities were banned from Boston’s public spaces at important times — they could not, for instance, enter the town Common during militia musters.