Background
HALE, Stephen Fowler was born on January 31, 1816 in Crittenden County, Kentucky, United States, United States. Son of William and Elliner (Manahan) Hale. His father was a Baptist minister.
HALE, Stephen Fowler was born on January 31, 1816 in Crittenden County, Kentucky, United States, United States. Son of William and Elliner (Manahan) Hale. His father was a Baptist minister.
Private school, southern university, law school.
The younger Hale attended Cumberland University in Kentucky, taught school in Alabama in 1837, read law, and in 1839 attended law school in Lexington, Kentucky. He was a Baptist. In 1839, he moved to Eutaw, Alabama, to set up his law practice. He also owned a small plantation.
On June 12, 1844, he married Mary Elinor Kirksey, by whom he had a son. Hale, a Whig, represented Greene County in the Alabama legislature in 1843. During the Mexican War, he was a colonel.
He lost a race for the U.S. House in 1853 before returning to the state legislature in 1857-1858 and 1859-1860. In early 1861, Governor Thomas O. Moore of Alabama sent him as a commissioner to encourage Kentucky to secede. Hale served in the provisional Congress on the Military Affairs, Judiciary, and Indian Affairs Committees.
In the provisional Congress, he offered a plan for the protection of slavery during wartime and he proposed the legislation which banned the payment of debts to Northerners. Rather than stand for election to the first Confederate Congress, he entered the military service. Hale became a lieutenant colonel in the 11th Alabama Infantry and fought at Seven Pines and Gaines’ Mill.
In 1866, the Alabama legislature named a county after him.
During the second coming of Christ, the God will sit in judgment and divide humanity between the saved and the lost and will sit in judgment of the believers, rewarding them for things done while alive.
Christians should engage the culture through discipleship within the churches and through participation in the democratic public policy and political process in order to help fulfill the kingdom mandate taught in the Bible and expressed in the Baptist Faith to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love.
The life with Christ is not only to live in the atmosphere of your local church. God made his children creative, productive, and therefore able to make the whole world a better place.
Spouse Mary Elinor Kirksey.