The 1899 Inaugural Address of E.Y. Mullins

...I believe the forty-years of the Seminary's history will bear me out in the statement that it has stood for the irenic spirit. When I was a student the impression made upon me by my honored teachers all of whom have passed to their heavenly reward, save the one for whose brow as woven a few evenings ago a chaplet of love and admiration, was to follow the words of the Apostle, "As much as in you lieth, live peaceably wit all men." I can see in my mental vision the picture of the incomparable Broadus upon one occasion, in a great and divided religious convention, stepping to the edge of the platform and commanding a hush upon the babel of voices as he proposed the following hymn:

"E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.”

If the spirits of those illustrious dead could be present with us this evening, I believe they would join with me in the wish that “The God of Peace who brought again from the dead that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant, even our Lord Jesus Christ, make us perfect in every good work to do His will, working in us that which is well pleasing in His sight, to whom be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.”


Source: Biblical Recorder
Date: October 18, 1899
Title: INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF REV. E. Y. MULLINS, D. D. PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (credit: Benji Ramsaur)