Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – James P. Boyce – Graduated from Brown University Part TWO
Thomas E Kresal
Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – James P. Boyce – Graduated from Brown University Part TWO
It means a great deal to a man to be brought under the influence of such a man as Richard Fuller at the very beginning of his religious life. It necessarily set before Boyce a high ideal and possibly inspired him with a lofty purpose. If we had more Fullers to preach we might have more Boyces converted.He graduated at Brown University, September, 1847. Dr. Broadus, in his “Memoir of James P. Boyce,” says:”It was a sad disappointment to Mr. Ker. Boyce when he found that James was immovably resolved to be a minister. Besides a natural ambition that his son might become distinguished as a lawyer, and perhaps as a statesman for both of which pursuits the father’s insight discerned in him peculiar qualifications he began already to hope that James would be the man to take charge of his large estate and carry on his great business undertakings for the benefit of the whole family it was hard for him to acquiesce in the youth’s determination to ‘throw away’ all his practical powers and possibilities upon the work of a minister.”On the 14th of September, 1847, he was authorized by the church in Charleston to preach the Gospel “wherever God in his providence might call him.”He married Miss Lizzie L. Ficklen, December 20, 1848, and he at once settled in his native town, Charleston.Thomas E. Kresal from: Pillars of Orthodoxy, or Defenders of the Faith, pg. 93 by Ben Bogard, 1900
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