Biography:

Baptist minister, college administrator. Born– September 9, 1863, Spartanburg, S.C. Parents– John Earle and Louise Nancy (Bomar) Bomar. Married– Nancy “Nannie”  Elizabeth Earle, September 6, 1888. Children– Five. Education– Wofford College, A.B., 1882; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lexington, Ky., 1888; studied at the University of Chicago, 1899; Howard College, D.D., 1902. Ordained to the ministry in the Southern Baptist church, 1888; served churches in Camden, S.C. until 1891; in Versailles, Ky., until 1896, in Marion, Ala. until 1913; served as vice president of Judson College, 1910-1913, and then president until 1923. Traveled to China where his daughter was a missionary in 1923-1924; served as pastor of a church in Tuskegee, 1924-1931. Trustee of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Died February 20, 1932.

Publication(s):

Enduring Salvation and Other Sermons. New York; Pageant Press, 1958.