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E. Y. Mullins: "A Man of Books and a Man of the People".(Edgar Young Mullins)(Biography)
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Baptist History and Heritage
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January 1, 2008
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- Ellis, William E.
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In the early twentieth century, no Baptist theologian, minister, or layperson better represented "the sensible center" than Edgar Young Mullins, according to Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.
Mullins, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) from 1899 to 1928, also held an important position in American religious history in the early twentieth century.
Early Life
Born on January 5, 1860, in Franklin County, Mississippi, the fourth of eleven children of a Baptist minister and farmer, Seth Granberry Mullins, and his wife, Sarah Cornelia Mullins, E. Y. Mullins came of age in Corsicana, Texas, ...
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