The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-17
DIR. BROADUS is DEAD
HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN
DIvINEs IN THE COUNTRY.
Though All His Work Was Done in
the South, He Had National Repu-
tation as n Scholar.

LOUISVILLE, March 16.-Dr John A.
Broadus died at $40 this morning aged
seventy.one years. No arrangements have
as yet been made for the funeral
DIR. Broadus had national reputation as
scholar, author, teacher and orator. He
was born of Welsh ancestry, in Culpepper
county, Virginia, on Jan. q, 1924 His
father was a leading politician in Virginia,
and for a term of years represented Rap
pahannock and Culpepper counties in the
State Senate. In early youth Dr. Broadus
developed studious habits, and gave much
promise of the mind that was to be after
ward known and recognized as mastery
throughout the length and breadth of the
land. His father sent him to the University
of Virginia at an early age. and SO highly
did his preceptors praise him that his
father gave up his farm and moved near the
university, so that he might be near his
son and see that ne was enabled to take
every possible advantage offered him. Nor
did he dsappoint his friends. In 1850 he
graduated with high honors. Immediately
after graduating he was appointed to teach
in the university, and in the following
year he was made assistant professor OF
Latin and Greek. This position he held for
two years, and at the same time he held
the position of pastor of the Charlottesville
Baptist Church. In 1855 he was made chap
lain of the university. This Office he held
for two years. and then returned to the
pastorate.
In 1859, with the late Rev. james p.
Boyce, who had been professor of theology
in Furman University, he organized the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
When it was first organized DR.. Broadus
had two pupils and DR.. Boyce one. Later
it was removed to Greenville, S. C. There
the new college opened with four profess
sors and ten students The professors were
Rev. James p. Boyce, chairman; Rev. John
A. Broadus, Rev. William Williams and
Rev. Basil Manly, jr. DR.. Broadus occu-
pied the chair of homietics and interpreta-
tion of the New Testament. At the second
session of the seminary the number of
pupils had increased to thirty-six.
Promptly with the opening of the war Dr.
Broadus left the seminary and became a
missionary chaplain in the army of Robert
E. Lee. He remained with the Confederate
army until the close of the war, when he
reopened the seminary with seven students
The fame of the seminary and the number
of its students grew apace, and in 1871 the
members of the faculty agreed that it
should be removed to a place larger than
Greenville. S. c. The Kentucky Baptists
pledged 100000 10 the seminary and the
faculty decided to remove it to this city
In 1877 DIR. Broadus removed his fam
lily to Louisville and at once took a
leading place among the ministers of that
".
recognized as the head of the Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary. which now has pupils
to the number of three hundred and an en-
dowment of half million dollars, and pos
sesses magnificent buildings.
DIR. Broadus a student on temporal
affairs as well as on those. of a spiritual
nature. He read much and kept himself
we'll informed on the questions of the day
And in addition to his reading he wrote a
great deal himself. The first book to bring
him fame was published in 1870. 1t was
Preparation and Delivery of Sermon
He also published in the Religious Herald
a series OF articles criticising the American
Bible Unions version of the New Testa-
ment. In 1872 he wrote "Refiecfions on
Travel This contained an account of his
journey through Egypt and the Holy Land
In 1867 he published THE History OF
Preaching. Commentary on Matthew
sermons and Addresses Jesus or Naz-
areth," should Women Speak in Mixed
Assembes?' and other articles from his .
pen appeared later. DIR. Broadus ii is said
has been compared to Gladstone as Greek
scholar. and as lecturer he has appeared
before the students Of Yale, Johns Hopkins