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OU Serind OF BibLt tOUGHTIO Al Hislory of Dauid Lipscoml Cattege
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DAVID LIPSCOMB COLLEGE S 1 HAVE AOU WT scream THE One wintry March day in 1892, five months 16, found ourselves wading 18 inches of snow FIRST after David Lipscomb and James A. Harding on the way to the school building located on DECADE had opened in Nashville a Bible school, my Fillmore Street. We had just a few days earl- younger brother Edwin, aged 12, and |, aged ier come up from Florida to enter the new school. Trudging through snow was rather a bitter experience for two lads fresh from the land of sunshine. As far back as | can remember | had want- ed to be a preacher. | had been ‘’cut out’’ by my parents for the ‘’ministry’’ and had grown up with no other calling in mind. They had expected to send me to Brother Larrimore’s school at Mars Hill, Alabama, but before | was old enough to go, the Mars Hill College had closed its doors. We had learned, however, through James A. Harding, an evangelist of national reputation, that he and Brother David Lipscomb were contemplating the establishment of such a school in Nashville. So when the school had become a reality, arrangements had been made for Mother to come with us and put us in the new school. We had rooms at Aunt Sally Baugh’s in South Nashville near the old Peabody campus only a few blocks from Fill- more Street. Aunt Sally was an interesting character. With palsied head she threatened, should any- One dare to bring an organ into the newly es- tablished South College Street Church, to take an ax and demolish the thing. She was the mother-in-law of Tom Ryman, the famous steamboat captain, who had recently been converted by Sam Jones, the revivalist, and had poured the whiskey from his boats into the Cumberland River. He built a big auditorium and named it Sam Jones Tabernacle, now known as Ryman Auditorium. This building and the College Street church figured largely in the early history of the school, the latter as our place of worship and the former as the place to hear lectures, concerts, and recitals. Theater- going (there were three theaters in town) was outlawed by strictly religious people. The new school had no official name, though the announcements of its proposed opening in the Gospel Advocate had referred to it as ““The Bible School.’’ Shortly after the opening, Brother Harding published an article under the heading ‘’The Nashville Bible School,”’ and this became the prevailing name. The school building, located almost adjoining the Tennessee School for the Blind on the present Hermitage Avenue, had been a large brick residence. Upstairs were rooms for a few boarding students. Brother Harding's The first faculty and student body. (Top row, left to right) Two unidentified students, A. D. Rogers, William Taylor, Will Logan (deceased), William Sisco (deceas- ed), John Hayes, O. L. Trahern (deceased), and three family lived in the rear rooms downstairs. In the base- unidentified students. Seated center: Harding, David and ment was the dining room. Classes met in the two William Lipscomb, and Paul Hays (deceased). Front large front rooms, which were separated by a cold hall. row, Eugene Houston, Leon Harding, O. T. Craig, Dan Somehow, the schedule of classes for the three teachers Gunn, and an unidentified student. was adjusted to these two rooms. Grates were used for
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