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Lemuel Moss was born on December 27, 1829, in Bullittsville, Kentucky, the son of Rev. Demas Moss and Esther Lewis, pioneer Baptists of southern Indiana.
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Lemuel Moss was born on December 27, 1829, in Bullittsville, Kentucky, the son of Rev. Demas Moss and Esther Lewis, pioneer Baptists of southern Indiana.
After following the printer's trade for nine years, Moss entered the University of Rochester in 1853 as a special student. President Martin B. Anderson soon persuaded him to pursue the full course, and he graduated from the University with high honors in 1858 and from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1860.
He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1858, as well as a degree from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1860. He also received his Doctor of Divinity degree and Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Rochester (1868, 1883).
Ordained at Worcester, Massachusetts, Moss served as pastor of the First Baptist Church there from 1860 to 1864, when he accepted the secretaryship of the United States Christian Commission. He was the author of the only published account of the work of that body - Annals of the United States Christian Commission (1868).
His educational work began at Bucknell University, where from 1865 to 1868 he held the professorship of systematic theology. For the next four years the editorship of the National Baptist interrupted his teaching career, but in 1872 he was installed as professor of New Testament interpretation at Crozer Theological Seminary.
Two years later, Moss assumed the presidency of the old, moribund Chicago University, and from 1875 to 1884 he was president of Indiana State University. After a few years without charge, he became in 1889 editor of the Ensign of Minneapolis, Minnesota, which position he occupied until 1893. Returning to the pastorate for a brief period, he was minister of the First Baptist Church, Woodbury, New Jersey, 1894 - 1896. In 1897 he was editor of the Baptist Commonwealth, Philadelphia.
During the last eight years of his life, he promoted the work of the American Baptist Historical Society, acting as president from 1895 to 1900 and as vice-president, 1900 to 1904; from 1898 to 1904 he also lectured on social science at Bucknell University.
In 1902 Moss averted a serious crisis at the National Baptist Anniversaries at St. Paul. For many years the Baptists of the North had conducted their national and international work through three societies, the Missionary Union, the Home Mission Society, and the Publication Society. Criticisms of inefficiency, overlapping, and waste had been repeatedly made.
Considerable feeling was developing, and at the St. Paul meeting Moss offered resolutions, enthusiastically adopted, providing for the appointment of a committee of fifteen charged with the function of promoting harmony and consolidation. By serving upon this commission, he paved the way for larger endeavor and more harmonious cooperation among these societies. Truly democratic in his attitude toward their consolidation, he insisted that the Baptist constituency decide upon the type of national Baptist organization. The ultimate result was the provisional organization in 1907 of the Northern Baptist Convention. He died on July 13, 1904 in New York City and was buried in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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On December 24, 1851, Lemuel Moss married Harriet Bingham of Cincinnati. They had three children.
