Background
Newton, Joseph Fort was born on July 21, 1880 in Decatur, Texas, United States. Son of Lee and Sue G. (Battle) Newton.
Newton, Joseph Fort was born on July 21, 1880 in Decatur, Texas, United States. Son of Lee and Sue G. (Battle) Newton.
Student Hardy Institute (now defunct) and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Doctor of Letters, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1912. Doctor of Divinity, Tufts College, 1918.
Doctor of Laws from Temple University in 1929.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1893. Pastor 1st Baptist Church, Paris, Texas, 1897-1898. Associate pastor non-sectarian church, St. Louis, 1898-1900.
Founder, and pastor People’s Church, Dixon, Illinois, 1901-1908. Pastor Liberal Christian Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1908-1916, The City Temple, London, England., 1916-1919, Church of the Divine Paternity, New York, 1919-1925, Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook Philadelphia, 1925-1930, St. James Church, Philadelphia, 1930-1935. Church of St. Luke and Epiphany, Philadelphia, 1938.
Author: David Swing, Poet Preacher, 1909. Abraham Lincoln, 1910. Lincoln and Herndon, 1910.The Eternal Christ, 1912. Sermons and Lectures, 1912. The Builders, A Story and Study of Masonry, 1914.Wesley and Woolman, 1914. What Have the Saints to Teach Us? 1914. The Ambassador, 1916.The Mercy of Hell, 1918. The Sword of the Spirit, 1918. The Theology of Civilization, 1919.Some Living Masters of the Pulpit, 1922. Preaching in London, 1923. The Men’s House, 1923.Preaching in New York, 1924. The Truth and the Life, 1925. The Religion of Masonry, 1926.God and the Golden Rule, 1927. Altar Stairs, 1928
The New Preaching, 1929. Things I Know in Religion, 1930.The Angel in the Soul, 1931. The Sermon in the Making, 1932. Living Every Day, 1937.We Highly Resolve, The Stuff of Life, 1939. His Cross and Ours, 1940. Living Up to Life, 1941.Live, Love and Learn, 1943. Where Are We In Religion?, 1944. River of Years (autobiography), 1946.The One Great Church, 1947. Life Victorious, 1948. also many pamphlets on patriotic and Masonic topics, and numerous addresses and sermons.
Served as Grand Chaplain Grand Lodge of.
Married Jennie Mai Deatherage, June 14, 1900. Children: Joseph Emerson, David (deceased), Josephine Kate.