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- BIO:Benajah Harvey Carroll 1843-1914
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- Baptist minister and educator. B.H. Carroll was born in
- Carrollton, Mississippi, the son of a preacher-farmer and one of
- twelve children. At the age of 18 he was graduated from Waco
- University in Waco, Texas, and then spent the next four years
- in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In 1865, at the
- age of 22, he was converted to Christ in a wood shed through
- the efforts of a Methodist evangelist, and was ordained to
- the ministry one year later.
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- During the first years of his ministry, immigrants
- were moving into Texas by the thousands, and he labored for
- their evangelization. After pastoring several Baptist
- churches, he became secretary of the Education Commission of
- the Baptist General Convention of Texas in 1899. He served in
- this capacity until 1901, at which time he became head of the
- Bible department at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. In 1905
- he was made dean of the Baylor Theological Seminary, which
- later became Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr.
- Carroll served as president of Southwestern from 1908 until
- his death in 1914.
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- In addition to his intellectual and argumentative
- abilities, in an age of denominational debates, he possessed
- a lovable nature. He once said, "When I come to know a man
- and love him as a friend and a brother, nothing can destroy
- the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love." He believed
- in the Baptist interpretation of the teachings of the New
- Testament, and was devoted to spreading those teachings to
- the uttermost parts of the earth.
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- Ruckman '67
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