Dr. Abraham Samson

His father, Abisha Samson, was the sixth in descent from Abraham Samson, who came to Plymouth among the earliest Pilgrims; and his mother, Mehetable Kenrick, was the sixth in descent from one of the earliest Puritan settlers at Boston.

Abisha Samson was converted in a Congregational church but, upon further examination of the Scriptures, was united with the First Baptist Church, Rhode Island.
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Samson entered Brown University in 1835 studying under the famed Baptist, Francis Wayland until 1839.
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Receiving a degree from Newton in 1843, pastoring several Baptist Churches along the way and teaching in several schools, Dr. Samson was invited to become fifth president of Columbian College, Washington, D.C. in 1859 and remained so all through the War Years (today, George Washington University).

Also, Dr. Samson was associated with the boards of the Northern and the Southern Baptist organizations, and was a trustee of the Southern Theological Seminary at Greenville, South Carolina.Perhaps Cathcart said it best of Dr. Samson: "No Baptist clergyman in the country is perhaps better known throughout the denomination than Dr. Samson."
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Not a prolific writer, yet President Samson left his academic mark on both the academy at large and learned Baptist thinking in particular.One major work by Dr. Samson dealt with the elements of art critique.However, by far, the greatest achievement Dr. Samson left for his Baptist descendants is a work all but forgotten now.
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Samson published in 1885, a "treatise on Wine in Religious Uses" entitled "Divine Law As To Wines".This volume of mammoth proportions takes the reader through a virtually exhaustive look at wine in history, both profane and religious, with an obvious focus on wine in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

Writing in the same vein as other temperance theologians, Dr. Samson takes the Moderation advocates to the historical, theological and Biblical wood shed.Not an ounce less confidence than Eliphalet Nott did Dr. Samson put forth the unpopular thesis--at least unpopular in today's atmosphere among many Baptists--that the Biblical revelation knows of no such sanction of alcoholic beverages for pleasurable purposes as Moderation advocates maintain.
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It is not practical to attempt a review of Dr. Samson's work of well over 600 pages.Below, however, are a fraction of the dozens of different wine topics by which he demonstrates God's approval of some wines and disapproval of others:
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Enough, however, is offered from Dr. Samson, who, like Eliphalet Nott, demonstrates a grand truth: those who embrace abstinence from intoxicating beverages for pleasurable purposes need not fear those who argue for Moderation in drinking.