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THE ROMANCE OF A CENTURY 681
Following the war the seminary opened with seven students. Dr. Broadus
only one student m homiletics, and he was a blind mah. To this one blind
man he delivered his famous lectures On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons,
ihese lectures still are used in standard seminaries of various denominations.
«. Thi V e ? li ] :iary is low located in Louisville, Kentucky. It has about one
thousand students and assets of $5,000,000. Similar romantic stories might be
5° ld 0± the founding of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary by Dr.
* tJoL 1 ?^ 07 ' Y hlch now has approximately one thousand students and
assets of $3,000,000, and ISI located in Fort Worth, Texas.
•JPr* B *P^f* Bible Institute,* New Orleans, Louisiana, was founded in 1918,
with Dr. B. H DeMent as president. It now has about three hundred students
and assets of $500,000.
Southern Baptists now have sixty-four educational institutions, with some
twenty-five thousand students.
Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. Henceforth we go on in Christian Education.
Chorus:
BREAK THOU THE BREAD
Break Thou the bread of life,
Dear Lord, to me,
As Thou didst break the loaves
Beside the sea;
Beyond the sacred page
I seek Thee, Lord;
My spirit pants for Thee,
O living Word.
Bless Thou the truth, dear Lord,
To me, to me,
As Thou didst bless the bread
By Galilee;
Then shall all bondage cease,
All fetters fall;
And I shall find my peace,
My All in all.
Time and space forbid telling of the hardships and heroisms of Civil War
and Reconstruction days, and of dangers at times threatening the very existence
of our Convention work. Suffice to say that under God and the wise leadership
of Southern Baptist statesmen the work was held together and carried on Among
those great leaders should be mentioned I. T. Tichenor, who became secretary of
the Home Mission Board and who did more than any other man to save the
Southern Baptist Convention and its work.
SECOND QUARTER
THE ROMANCE OF THE WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Christian women have ever been loyal and helpful to our Lord and his cause
What they have done for missions in our denomination is a romantic story.
About 1800 a cripple by the name of Mary Webb went about in her wheel
chair organizing women into praying bands and children into missionary "cent
societies." Soon many "mite societies" were formed, studying and praying and
giving two cents a week for missions.
The movement early reached the South and grew rapidly. Our women wanted
a larger and more permanent organization. Many of the brethren opposed the
were the in movement, the On mission thirty-two basement May believing 11, causes. 1888, delegates of the But women during Broad the from should women the Street twelve Southern stay persisted. M. states at E. Baptist home Church, present.
and Convention, Richmond, let the brethren a Virginia. meeting look was There after held