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Lee Rutland Scarborough was an American Southern Baptist clergyman and educator. He was also a president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Background
Lee Rutland was born on July 4, 1870 in Colfax, Louisiana, United States, the fifth son and eighth of nine children of George Washington and Martha Elizabeth (Rutland) Scarborough.
His father, a native of Mississippi, had fought for the Confederacy; a yeoman farmer, he moved in 1874 to McLennan County, Texas, where he became a Baptist preacher, and then in 1878 to Jones County in West Texas. One of the first settlers there, he lived in a dugout and supported himself by farming and ranching while he evangelized and organized churches throughout the area. His wife had been a devout Baptist since her girlhood in Tennessee.
At the age of eight he was picking cotton and herding cattle; but after witnessing a murder trial at age twelve he determined to seek a career in law.
Education
As a boy Lee sporadically attended schools at Anson and Merkel, Texas, supplementing this instruction with home tutoring by his cousin, Emma Scarborough, the first teacher in Jones County.
At eighteen he enrolled in Baylor University, the summa schola of Texas Baptists, in Waco. He earning a B. A. in 1892.
In 1895 he entered the pre-law program at Yale, where the next year he received a second bachelor's degree and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Later he attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville.
Career
In Baylor University Lee Rutland boarded with an uncle, Judge J. B. Scarborough, a lawyer and a Baylor trustee.
At First Baptist Church in Waco he heard Benajah Harvey Carroll, "colossus of Texas Baptists, " and by his father's command sent home written reports on the sermons. In 1892 Scarborough taught in the preparatory department at Baylor, 1892-94, then served for a year as principal of the high school at nearby Mexia while continuing law studies with Judge Scarborough.
Upon his return from Yale to Texas in 1896 he was licensed to preach and became pastor of the Baptist church at Cameron, Texas, where he was ordained later that same year. He remained at Cameron until 1901. From then until 1908 he was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas. During the twelve years of his two pastorates he more than doubled the membership of both churches and conducted more than a hundred revival meetings, preaching an average of five hundred sermons each year and earning a reputation as "possibly the greatest pastor-evangelist in the Baptist denomination of that day" (Dana, p. 81).
B. H. Carroll had resigned his pastorate at Waco and had become the head of a new seminary growing out of the theological department of Baylor University. With large designs for the future, Carroll persuaded Scarborough in 1908 to join his faculty as professor of evangelism. With the seminary in search of a permanent home, he collected $100, 000 from the Baptists of Fort Worth, purchased land south of the city, and began a large building. The school moved to Fort Worth in 1910 and was chartered as Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Carroll died in 1914, bequeathing his mantle to his protege Scarborough, who was installed as president the next year. Scarborough served until his retirement in 1942, all the while continuing as professor of evangelism - a post which became popularly known as "The Chair of Fire. "
Southern Baptists turned frequently to President Scarborough for denominational leadership. When they conceived the "Seventy-Five Million Campaign" in 1919 as a five-year program of missionary advance, he was made the general director; within a year he had secured pledges for nearly $93, 000, 000, although because of the postwar depression only $58, 000, 000 was actually collected.
He was president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1929-32; vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1934-35, and president, 1939-40; president of the convention's Relief and Annuity Board, 1941; vice-president of the Baptist World Alliance, 1940-42; and sometime member of numerous denominational boards and committees. In 1936 he undertook a 25, 000-mile evangelistic tour of South America for the Foreign Mission Board, and in 1939 he led (with Roland Q. Leavell) a Southwide revival which won for Southern Baptist churches 266, 000 new members.
Scarborough found time to write sixteen books. In the spirit of John R. Mott and the Student Volunteer Movement, Recruits for World Conquest (1914) promoted the idea of "calling out the called". Scarborough next produced his most durable book, With Christ after the Lost: A Search for Souls (1919). It was revised in 1953 by Eldred Douglas Head, Scarborough's successor at Southwestern Seminary.
In May 1941 Scarborough suffered a light stroke, which forced him to retire the next year. With his wife he moved to Edinburg, Texas, where his son Lawrence operated a citrus farm. After a second stroke in the summer of 1944 he was taken to the Amarillo home of his daughter Euna Lee (Mrs. A. D. ) Foreman. The next year he died at North West Texas Hospital in Amarillo of cerebral apoplexy complicated by arteriosclerosis.
Achievements
Lee Rutland Scarborough occupied the world's first academic chair of evangelism, "The Chair of Fire" and became the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Scarborough became a chief architect of the Southern Baptist program of popular theological education. During Scarborough's presidency Southwestern Seminary erected buildings costing more than a million dollars and, with its three schools of theology, religious education, and sacred music, became one of the largest theological seminaries in the world. His most famous works: With Christ after the Lost: A Search for Souls (1919).
He is memorialized in Baptist Theological Seminary in Scarborough Hall, built to house the School of Theology.
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Religion
Scarborough had professed conversion at age fourteen and had been baptized (by immersion) at Anson, Texas. Three years later he came under such powerful religious impressions as to regard this experience as his real conversion, and in 1889 he was rebaptized at Waco by B. H. Carroll.
He defended the principles of the freedom of individual church institutions against the attacks of J. Frank Norris, fundamentalist pastor of the large and wealthy First Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
Views
Scarborough himself was soundly fundamental, but never rabidly fundamentalist. He joined with Edgar Young Mullins in ignoring a Southern Baptist Convention resolution which required all denominational boards and institutions to disavow evolutionary theories.
Personality
Scarborough's fund-raising efforts were as persuasive as his preaching.
Connections
On February 4, 1900, Scarborough married Mary Parker ("Neppie") Warren of Abilene, Texas. It was a long and happy union, enriched with six children whom they saw educated and launched on successful careers: George Warren, Euna Lee, Lawrence Rutland, Neppie, Ada Beth, and William Byron.
