ARTHUR T. PIERSON Memoir; Spurgeon Successor; Bethany Collegiate
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ARTHUR T. PIERSON: A Spiritual Warrior, Mighty in the Scriptures, A Leader in the Modern Missionary Movement; illustrated; by Delevan Leonard Pierson [his son] New York, [1912], Fleming H. Revell Company; 333 pp.
When Charles Spurgeon's illness with Bright's disease kept him from preaching, he asked Pierson to substitute for him while he recovered; but when Spurgeon unexpectedly died on Janua...ry 31, 1892, the people of the Metropolitan Tabernacle invited Pierson to stay on, which he did for the next two years. It is notable that Spurgeon asked a Presbyterian minister who had not been baptized as a believer to occupy the pulpit in his place.
Pierson held the opinion that Christians could disagree on the mode of baptism and whether it should be administered to infants or believers only. He later became convinced that believer baptism was correct and on February 1, 1896 was baptized by Spurgeon's brother, James A. Spurgeon at the age of fifty-eight.
Pierson spoke with D. L. Moody at his Northfield Conferences and was also a speaker at the Keswick Convention. During this period George Mueller and others had helped to change Pierson's eschatology from postmillennialism to premillennialism. As a missionary speaker A. T. Pierson influenced Robert Elliott Speer, Samuel Zwemer, Horace Grant Underwood and John R. Mott to give their lives to missions.
Besides his contributions to missions, Pierson's most notable influence was due to his commitment to orthodoxy. When liberalism began sweeping through the mainline denominations, Pierson joined other concerned Christian leaders in publishing "The Fundamentals", a series of booklets designed to answer the critics of Christianity.
Because of his apologetic abilities, Pierson was invited to write five of the major articles. Each booklet was distributed freely to pastors throughout America. This marked the beginning of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy in American churches. In time, the booklets were combined into a twelve volume set of books. Since then, Pierson has often been called the "Father of Fundamentalism".
This memoir has no underlining or yellow highlighting. The pages are clean but the binding is shaken. A former owner's name and address on front flyleaf. Inside covers indicate at one time this belonged to a retirement community library.
If you purchase more than one book from me at about the same time, ask me to reduce the shipping charges!
I am reducing my personal library after 50 years of collecting theology and religious history books. This book is one of my gems which must make room for retirement.
ARTHUR T. PIERSON: A Spiritual Warrior, Mighty in the Scriptures, A Leader in the Modern Missionary Movement; illustrated; by Delevan Leonard Pierson [his son] New York, [1912], Fleming H. Revell Company; 333 pp.
When Charles Spurgeon's illness with Bright's disease kept him from preaching, he asked Pierson to substitute for him while he recovered; but when Spurgeon unexpectedly died on Janua...ry 31, 1892, the people of the Metropolitan Tabernacle invited Pierson to stay on, which he did for the next two years. It is notable that Spurgeon asked a Presbyterian minister who had not been baptized as a believer to occupy the pulpit in his place.
Pierson held the opinion that Christians could disagree on the mode of baptism and whether it should be administered to infants or believers only. He later became convinced that believer baptism was correct and on February 1, 1896 was baptized by Spurgeon's brother, James A. Spurgeon at the age of fifty-eight.
Pierson spoke with D. L. Moody at his Northfield Conferences and was also a speaker at the Keswick Convention. During this period George Mueller and others had helped to change Pierson's eschatology from postmillennialism to premillennialism. As a missionary speaker A. T. Pierson influenced Robert Elliott Speer, Samuel Zwemer, Horace Grant Underwood and John R. Mott to give their lives to missions.
Besides his contributions to missions, Pierson's most notable influence was due to his commitment to orthodoxy. When liberalism began sweeping through the mainline denominations, Pierson joined other concerned Christian leaders in publishing "The Fundamentals", a series of booklets designed to answer the critics of Christianity.
Because of his apologetic abilities, Pierson was invited to write five of the major articles. Each booklet was distributed freely to pastors throughout America. This marked the beginning of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy in American churches. In time, the booklets were combined into a twelve volume set of books. Since then, Pierson has often been called the "Father of Fundamentalism".
This memoir has no underlining or yellow highlighting. The pages are clean but the binding is shaken. A former owner's name and address on front flyleaf. Inside covers indicate at one time this belonged to a retirement community library.
If you purchase more than one book from me at about the same time, ask me to reduce the shipping charges!
I am reducing my personal library after 50 years of collecting theology and religious history books. This book is one of my gems which must make room for retirement.
