HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972 Thirty Years History: First Baptist Church Book (Pg. 6)a Sunday School for the local people of beginners. There was a student
Sunday School enrollment that year of 13 juniors, 30 sophs and 100
"fish", making a total of 147. The high attendance for the year was
196.
During the college year the Baptists met in the E. E. Building and in
the summer in the old Assembly budding located where the All Faiths
Chapel now stands. These buildings were not adequate for a Baptist
church program; however, they met the temporary needs of the group.
The Baptists continued to use the college buildings until a temporary
building was constructed on the lot where the Baptist church auditor-
ium now stands.
You cannot, as a rule, meet as a denominational group very long
before the people concerned will want to organize a church. This was
true of the College Station Baptists. However, they had some problems
to face and solve. The pastor of the First Baptist Church in Bryan
wanted the organization to be an azm of that church and therefore
bitterly opposed the separate church and refused to have any part until
the Sunday morning before the church was to be organized that
evening. The pastor told Rev. Brown early that morning that he could
not call off his services and have any part in the organization that
evening. However, one of his leaders, Judge W. S. Barron, knowing that
the college group was planning the organization at the evening service,
made a motion at the beginning of the morning worship service that the
church call off the evening service and help Rev. Brown in the organiza-
tion. Of course, the motion carried. Therefore, the pastor and some of
his leaders had a part in the organization.
Adams, W. F.
Littlejohn, L. W.
Albritton, J. A.
lightener, J. F.
Allen, H. R.
Lord, Guy W.
Atchinson, H.C.
Martin, Mrs. F. O.
Bagley, J. B.
Mackechav, H. G.
Blzzell, Dr. W. B.
Marstellar, Mrs. R. B.
Bizzell, Mrs. Samh
Mayfield, P. B.
Brashear, Allena
Meyers, Mrs. Sallie
Brewton, E. E.
Meyers, Miss Estelle
Brown, Rev. R. L.
Miller, T. A.
Brown, Mrs. R. L.
Mitchell, F. W.
Byrom, M. H.
Mitchell, Mrs. A.
Moore, J. L.
Calvin, Elmer
Morris, G. A.
Camp, CW.
Canion, C.
McDonald, J. F.
Carlton, M. W.
Carpenter, N. G.
Chaney, F. H.
Cofer, U.B.
Coleman, T. C.
Clark, B.C.
Clark, Mrs- B C
Debnam, S. A
Dotson, T. A.
Elwell, C. M.
Fraser, C. H.
Fountain, Mrs. C. P.
Freeman, Donald
Foley, C. E.
Garnett, W. E.
Goolsby, Mr, W. F.
Graze, 1. E.
Greer, Lanier
Hale, Fred
Henry, H. K.
Hodges, Mrs. M. A.
Holloway, J. P.
Howard, J. L.
Huffman, J. W.
Hunnicutt, Jr. R.
Jameson, B. E.
Jones, J. C.
Lanham, W. B.
Lee, R. E.
McDonald, Mrs. J. F.
McDonald, Warner
McDonald, J. H.
Neeley, R. G.
Newman, N. N.
Palmer. F. S.
Parr, V. P.
Rogers, R. H.
Royal, R. F.
Sharp, B. F.
Short, W. F.
Shook, E. M.
Simpson, H. B.
Skrabanck, R. E.
Smith, H. D.
Smith, J. E.
Spensers, Marvin
Sprague, C. T.
Taylor, E. A.
Thacker, R. B.
Wall, C. L. Jr.
Walton, T. 0.
Walton, Mrs. T. 0.
Walton, Turner
Walton, Miss Ethyl
Whitehouse, Ben
Ward, A. A.
Williamson, H. H.
Williamson, Mrs. H. H.
Wilcox, G. B.
Many of the College Station Baptists connected with the college and
others were opposed to any church organization and especially building
programs that would call for the raising offunds by the local members.
This will be explained he a letter to Rev. Brown when the Baptists were
trying to secure a lot on which to build o parsonage and a place where
the group could have socials and business meetings. The following is the
letter fmm Dr. T. O. Walton, Director, Cooperative Extension Service,
College Station, Texas, dated November 8, 1923'.