Early American Presbyterians "B" -
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Published on: 9/18/2006
Last Visited: 8/26/2008
In connection with Dr. Baker's labor's at Beaufort, South Carolina, there was an extensive and powerful revival of religion.While pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Frankfort, Kentucky (1834-36), he officiated for a considerable length of time as chaplain in the Penitentiary, where his labors were blessed to the awakening of many, and even to the hopeful conversion of some twelve or fourteen.He labored for a time, with great earnestness and success, at Galveston, Texas.He also did great work on the frontier.In arriving, toward night, at a village in which there was no Presbyterian Church, and in which he had no acquaintance, he would obtain the use of whatever public building was in the place, and hire some one to go around there that night.He subsequently became president of Austin College, and resided in Huntsville, where this institution is located.
Dr. Baker had what are called "peculiarities;" but he was one of the most devoted and successful evangelists the country, if not the world, has ever seen.His motto was "This one thing I do."The number of those hopefully converted under his preaching, he supposed to be about 2500.