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To Preach Christ
William Carey Crane was President of Baylor University in Independence, Texas, from 1863-1885. It is well known that he was an excellent scholar, a highly rated Baptist preacher, and a major force in the early days of the Southern Baptist Convention. But what was his background? Clearly, he was well educated. But what, exactly, does that mean? Where did he go to school? Who taught him? And what did he learn? What was his religious background, training, and experience? In this book, Professor Elmer H. Duncan surveys a wide variety of nineteenth-century materials in an attempt to answer these questions. More generally, he seeks to give the reader a glimpse into the religious and academic life of the United States, as it was a hundred and fifty years ago. - from book flap.
Making the Bible Belt
"By reconstructing the religious crusade to achieve prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reveals how southern religious leaders overcame longstanding anticlerical traditions, built a formidable social movement, and, in the course of outlawing liquor, injected religion irreversibly into public life." -- Provided by the publisher.
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Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Supplement No 1
The deed abstracts identify the principals to the deeds, dates, location of the property, and, sometimes, the names of heirs and other relatives. The Minute Book abstracts refer primarily to deeds and wills, with the latter providing the names of the intestate, date of the will, and the names and relationships of the heirs.
Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas
Biography is not given its rightful place in literature. It has a more intimate relation to History than is assigned by common judgment; for, after all, the life of any nation is written in the lives of those who have shown themselves in some respects superior to their fellows. History is to a great degree but the sum of individual action, and the work of the historian consists in connecting many fragments of personal experience and effort, in such a way as to form a narrative harmonious and instructive. Of no Commonwealth, in ancient or modern times, is it so true as of Texas, that its history can only be thoroughly understood through intimate acquaintance with the lives of those who made t...
