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John was born on April 6, 1875 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. He was the son of Julia Rebecca (Carter) and Henry Dundas Straton, a Baptist preacher of rigorous orthodox faith.
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John was born on April 6, 1875 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. He was the son of Julia Rebecca (Carter) and Henry Dundas Straton, a Baptist preacher of rigorous orthodox faith.
He was a student at Mercer University, from 1895 to 1898 and was professor of oratory and interpretation of literature there in 1899. He attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was ordained in 1900 and graduated in 1902.
After teaching two years, 1903-05, in Baylor University at Waco, Texas, Straton became pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Chicago. In 1908 he went to the Seventh Immanuel Church in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1913 to 1917 he was minister of the First Baptist Church in Norfolk, Virginia.
In 1918 he accepted the pastorate of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City. The frankness with which he assailed the excesses of the years after the World War was in itself enough to attract immense public attention; but this was accentuated by sensational methods of public appeal that precipitated feverish controversy.
He preached on cabaret orgies, the ouija board, and the Elwell murder mystery. He made a tour of the tenderloin district, and on an Easter Sunday, in 1920, denounced the whiskey drinking, soliciting, and dancing he had seen. He attended the Dempsey-Carpentier prize-fight and used his experience as the basis of a furious pulpit denunciation of the sport.
He attacked the atheists and forced trial of a suit against Charles L. Smith, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, for sending annoying literature through the mails. Repeatedly he conducted exciting revival services. These activities, sustained with immense vitality and resource, made him a figure of first-class local importance.
In his later years, he became a national figure as well. His evolution debates with Charles Francis Potter carried his name and word to all parts of the land. On the death of William Jennings Bryan, he assumed undisputed leadership of the Fundamentalist forces.
Bitter controversy with Governor Alfred E. Smith led him into the presidential campaign of 1928, and for weeks, in the blasting heat of summer, he toured the Southern states in opposition to the "wet, " Catholic, Tammany standard-bearer of Democracy.
The severity of his campaign exertions, following upon the strain of his New York ministry, led to a paralytic stroke.
He died at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, New York.
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He became a Christian when he was a teenager and heard the revival preaching of James Hawthorne. From 1913 to 1917 he was minister of the First Baptist Church in Norfolk, Virginia. He was in appearance and temper the typical Protestant zealot.
He read widely and more than once confounded his opponents by unexpected knowledge of facts; but these facts were held at arm's length like stones to be broken by the hammers of controversy, never received into his mind like food to be digested and absorbed.
He was less intolerant and more tender than his critics imagined; if he appeared stern and unrelenting, it was because of his dogmatic assurance of the rightness of his position. His superb showmanship, which included early use of the radio and constant resort to newspaper publicity, was as sincere as it was ingenious and occasionally vulgar: it was motivated not by self-seeking but by shrewd understanding of the popular mind and determination to capture that mind at any cost for the causes he had at heart.
There was comfort, also, in the unshakable loyalty of hosts of followers. It is doubtful, however, if he ever suspected the vicarious enjoyment of wickedness he supplied in sermons that gave his hearers the nearest thing to indulgence in what he denounced.
His lean, handsome face had a granite-like quality of grim and terrible resolution. His tall, spare, and powerful figure quivered with nervous energy, yet was held taut in masterful control. A fine voice gave wings to a natural eloquence, carefully trained to full effectiveness. His mind, set like hardened cement by early domestic and educational influences, became impervious to later impressions of thought and life. An ironic humor, a genuine courage, a fierce scorn of consequences armored him against storms of public ridicule.
His wife was Georgia Hillyer of Atlanta, Georgia, to whom he was married on November 2, 1903. They had four sons: Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, John Charles Straton, Rev. Warren Badenock Straton, and George Douglas Straton.