FIFTH SERIES 1902-1914 WITH SUPPLEMENT BY GEORGE BRAXTON TAYLOR Professor and Resident Chaplain Hollins College, and author of "Life and Letters of Rev. George Boardman Taylor, D. D.;" WITH A FOREWORD BY REV. GEORGE W. MCDANIEL, D. D. 1915 J. P. BELL COMPANY, INC. LYNCHBURG, VA. FOREWORD The history of any people is the biographies of its great men. This is preeminently true of Virginia Baptists. As the life of a state is seen best in the lives of its leading citizens, the history of Virginia Baptists is fully and faithfully delineated in the lives of its ministers. They are a noble succession. From the days of Semple, Rice, and Clopton, through all the intervening years, among the fairest names on the pages of history are the defenders of our Faith. The biography of the eminently pious may well be regarded with deep and living interest. In every herald of the Cross we behold a monument on which is inscribed the triumph of the gospel. They reflect with no common luster the glory of their divine Redeemer. These "good ministers of Jesus Christ" have left their impress on the world. Where is the state, North, South, East, or West, that has not been made a debtor to the ministry of Virginia? The memorial of their deeds is recorded in this series of biography. Preceding volumes have been widely read, and preserve in permanent form the consecutive story of our people from the beginning in Virginia down to the present day. The forthcoming volume will be gladly welcomed, and will possess an entrancing interest for the reader of to-day, because it holds the portraiture of those of our own time. Many of these we have "seen in the flesh," and, having known, we love. They are among the faithful ministers who were pastors of the churches where we now worship, and who led many of us to Christ, and baptized us, and married us. They buried our dead and now they have |