Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Spencer Houghton Cone – A Precocious Childhood – PART ONE of ELEVEN

Thomas E Kresal Admin · 9 hrs November 22, 2019

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Spencer Houghton Cone – A Precocious Childhood – PART ONE of ELEVEN

Spencer Houghton Cone, D. D. was born in Princeton, N. J., April 30, 1785. His parents were persons of intellectual and moral worth. His father was a native of East Haddam, Conn., where for several generations the family had lived, and his mother was the daughter of Joab Houghton, of New Jersey, who was very active in the Revolution. She was a woman of more than ordinary excellence of character, being noted as a person of great prayer.

At the age of eight, and while spending a little time with his grandfather, Spencer Cone was deeply convicted of sin. It was while they were in attendance upon the annual meeting at the Hopewell church; but the feeling was only transient, though revived some two years afterwards, when he was taken by his mother to hear a sermon delivered by the Rev. Ashbel Green in Philadelphia. His efforts, however, were merely legal in nature, and he soon relapsed into his ordinary way of life.

His health in his boyhood was not robust, and so it was considered wise to permit him to pass some time on the farm of his grandfather. The consequence was that he outgrew his former weakness and acquired a vigorous constitution. His early life was marked also by an intellectual development almost precocious.

Thomas E. Kresal from – The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881, pg. 262

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