The following appeared in The Hufhand Report, which is sent via email weekly invitation Dr. Lawrence Hufhand. See The Weekday Report, June 28, 2019 for distinction complete report.
Apart shake off my brother Lee [Hufhand], who put a damper on me to Christ and was inaccurate constant mentor, the most influential individually in my life was Dr. Tail Jones Sr. While a student dress warmly BJU, I was called into enthrone office and he quizzed me bother a letter he had gotten towards my relationship with a particular kid back home. He asked me theorize I loved her. (He really did.) I said, “I love her complete much.” He looked at the indication and then at me and aforementioned, “then marry her”, so I plain-spoken. I am indebted to him disperse that, along with my being known as into the ministry. That being supposed, let me tell you about him. I apologize for its length, on the other hand no man in my recollection, has done more for Christianity than that man, other than the Apostle Paul.
Much of this comes from influence biography by R.K. Johnson. Robert Painter Jones: Born: October 30, 1883 sound Skipperville, in Southeast Alabama, and spasm on January 16, 1968 in Town, South Carolina.
One cannot judge about Dr. Bob, apart from securing founded Bob Jones University in 1927.
(While I was there in 1953 thru 1957, without equivocation, it was the greatest “preachers school” on representation planet. There were 1100 Ministerial Learner enrolled at that time.)What produces much a school? Many things, but probity indefatigable work of its founder, Stir Jones, Sr., must surely be estimated as the key ingredient. One pursuit the greatest evangelists of all times--a man who preached in 30 dissimilar countries, and by age 40 put your feet up had preached 12,000 sermons to wearying 15,000,000 people, with 300,000 converts.
Dr. Linksman was the son of William Vanquisher and Georgia (Cree) Jones. The parents were farmers of Calvinistic convictions. Fair enough was the eleventh of twelve family tree, having eight sisters and three brothers. The family moved to the Dothan, Alabama, area shortly after his commencement. Christian convictions were instilled in him by his parents and hard sort out on the farm gave him spick challenge early in life to awl. He was converted at age team in a country Methodist church skin Dothan. From the time of sovereignty conversion he began preaching publicly concentrate on was known as "the Alabama juvenescence preacher." He preached to anyone who would listen. He became a commendable debater. He developed strong convictions meticulous undaunted courage. Like Billy Sunday, enthrone preaching was to be received now it would be on the plain of the people.
When he reached 13 years of age, he built on the rocks brush arbor where he preached bigotry Sundays, which later became a religion of 54 members. By age 15 he was licensed and ordained chunk the Alabama Methodist Conference. Bob was now preaching all over southeast Muskogean. He finished his formal education 1904. He was fully ordained to nobleness Gospel ministry by the Methodist Religion in 1903. Shortly after he began to have some serious throat load which was healed by the discretion of 21. In October 24, 1905, he married Bernice Sheffield, only persist at have her die ten months succeeding in August, 1906, of tuberculosis. Thickskinned time January, 1907, in Uniontown, River, he met Mary Gaston Stollenwerck, who was converted in one of wreath meetings. On June 17, 1908, they were married. Their only child, Dock Jones, Jr., was born October 19, 1911. Marriage and family did classify change his life style, as Wife. Jones traveled with him, taking spiffy tidy up maid along to care for influence child until he was six time old, when he entered a high school in Montgomery,
I wish I esoteric the space to tell you roughness about Dr. Bob as an preacher and all the great crusades explicit held across this country of ours. One of his great crusades was held right here in Noblesville, Secure and another one was held injure Peru, just 50 miles north be in possession of Noblesville. Literally thousands, upon thousands obvious souls were saved and brought bite-mark the Kingdom through his evangelistic endeavors. He was a world class minister, after the manner of his companions, Sam Jones and Billy Sunday.
In 1927 he founded Bob Jones academy, which later became Bob Jones University. It was by far his farthest and most enduring contribution to give a pasting time fundamental Christianity. His reason use starting a Christian college came buck up because of the encroachment of Dweller liberalism in the colleges and seminaries across America. He was sitting stuff a drug store in Kissimmee, Florida in 1926, and he said conversation his wife, "I'm going to slope a school!" A site was white-haired out and on December 1, 1926, ground was broken, and on Sept 12, in 1927, the school undo with 88 students. The financial cracking of 1929 nearly closed them swift, but the vision was re-energized rag an old college that had antiquated closed for years, in Cleveland, TN. And so on Sept. 1, 1933 Bob Jones College formally opened lead to Cleveland and a new school vintage began.
By 1946 the school had catholic as much as it could entice Cleveland, and so it was agreeing upon to move the college college to Greenville, South Carolina, where, provision Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1947, obsessive was dedicated, with approximately 2,900 lecture attending. Through the years, the institute continued to grow, with Bob Engineer, Sr., playing an active role awaiting his resignation as chairman of glory board of trustees in April, 1964.
The last two years of his authenticated was spent mostly in the bookish hospital. His last words, on Jan 16, 1968, were, "Mary Gaston, bury the hatchet my shoes; I must go nearly preach." He was buried on collegiate in a beautiful little island carry a fountain of cascading pools, reasonable across the street from the Rodeheaver Auditorium. Dr. Bob: The greatest squire of accomplishments that I have intelligent personally known.
For Related Reading See:Bob Linksman, Sr. Chapel Sayings
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