Background
Mullins, Edgar Young was born on January 5, 1860 in Franklin Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Seth G. and Cornelia B. Mullins.
Mullins, Edgar Young was born on January 5, 1860 in Franklin Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Seth G. and Cornelia B. Mullins.
Student Agricultural and Mechanics College of Texas, 1876-1879. Graduate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1885.
Student Johns Hopkins University, 1891-1892.
Doctor of Divinity, Carson and Newman College, Tennessee, 1896, also McMaster University, Toronto, Canada, 1925. Doctor of Laws, Richmond College, Virginia, and Baylor University.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1885. Pastor Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 1885-1888, Lee Saint Church, Baltimore, 1888-1895, First Church, Newton, Massachusetts, 1896-1899. President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, since 1899.
Editor The Evangel, Baltimore, 1890-1895.
Secretary Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1895-1896. President Southern Baptist Convention, May 1921-1924.
President Baptist World Alliance, since 1923. Author: Why Is Christianity True?, 1905.
The Axioms of Religion, 1908.
Baptist Beliefs, 1912. Freedom and Authority in Religion, 1913. Commentary on Ephesians and Colossians, 1913.
The Life in Christ.
The Christian Religion in its Doctrinal Expression. Talks on Soul Winning, 1920. Spiritualism a Delusion, 1920.
Christianity at The Cross-Roads, 1924.
Home: Louisville, Kentucky.
Married Isla May Hawley, June 2, 1886. Children: Edgar Wheeler (deceased), Roy Granberry (deceased).