Baptist History, Heritage and DistinctivesThe Life of Elder James S. Coleman – Landmark Sucessionists Part Four of Nine

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Baptist History, Heritage and DistinctivesThe Life of Elder James S. Coleman – Landmark Sucessionists Part Four of Nine

His entering the ministry was like a clap of thunder in a clear sky to the great majority of people. Some smiled, some scorned, some cursed, some said he was crazy, and others shouted the praises of God.His entering the ministry is an answer to those, who sneer at the ministry and say that “men become preachers when they find they can’t do anything else.” When such men as J. S. Coleman, Major W. E. Penn, J. B. Moody, J. N. Hall and hundreds of others who have been pre-eminently successful in politics and business, enter the ministry, it is proof that to be a successful preacher a man must be able to do almost anything else.Dr. Coleman is one of the first orators in the ministry. His style is peculiar, but it has a power scarcely equaled by any other man. Some excel him in grace and culture, some excel him in diction, some may have a more melodious voice, but in that mysterious thing called power he scarcely has an equal.Perhaps no man has done more in distributing Baptist literature than he. He has been a book agent all his life. When he holds a meeting he 1eaves as many books and papers behind as possible, and their silent work goes on through the years. He has a colportage work now, all his own, and his agents are selling Baptist literature in several counties of Kentucky.The man to whom Dr. Coleman owes more, perhaps, than to any other, man is the late Dr. J. M. Pendleton. To Pendleton he went for instruction and advice, and he could not have gone to a grander or better man. Would to God that all our preachers had such a counselor. The chairs of theology in our seminaries are now largely filled with boys whose theological setting is somewhat uncertain, and it is to be feared that few such men as J. S. Coleman will be turned out by those schools.To use Dr. Coleman’s own words, he is “an old Landmark successionist, denying the claims of all other churches.” His unparalleled success in pastoral and evangelistic work proves that holding these rigid Baptist doctrines does not interfere in the least with soul-winning. Whenever an anti-landmarker can show anything like such success for his work as can be shown for Coleman’s work, then it will be time to cry down 1andmarkism as hurting the usefulness of those who hold to it.Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from: Pillars of Orthodoxy by Ben Bogard, 1900 pg. 337-38https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3371273976257604&set=gm.1331092857085860&type=3&eid=ARATWb2syPoJo0mzx-XGRXLSKd-o1ds922weP0PgiNC5YCOiSnfkanDvY6LKHQ4WD6C-ptOzy2pKJMOm&ifg=1