Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Pastor George Whitefield Samson – Part SIX of SIX

Thomas E Kresal January 10, 2020

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives

Pastor George Whitefield Samson Part SIX of SIX

The increasing labors and cares of President Samson led him, in 1871, to resign, after twelve years’ arduous service as president, and twenty-five as a trustee, in order to accept the presidency of Rutgers Female College, New York City.

In 1873 he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist church, Harlem, now Mount Morris Baptist church, New York, though retaining his connection with Rutgers College as president up to 1875, and as lecturer on art up to the present time. Dr. Samson has, notwithstanding his arduous labors, written much.

In addition to the writings already mentioned, he published, in 1866, “Elements of Art Criticism,” and in 1868 an abridged edition of the same ; numerous small treatises and articles in weeklies, monthlies, and quarterlies, especially on the subjects of “Evolution” and the “Future State.” A small volume on the ” Atonement Historically Considered” has just been published, and a treatise on ” Wine in Religious Uses” has been prepared by him at the request of two Conventions.

No Baptist clergyman in the country is perhaps better known throughout the denomination than Dr. Samson.

Thomas E. Kresal from: The Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart, pg. 361.