A city or house divided against itself: a discourse delivered by Rev. Richard Fuller, on the first day of June, 1865, being the day of national fasting and humiliation
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Sermons By Richard Fuller, Preached During His Ministry With The Seventh And Eutaw Place Baptist Churches, Baltimore, 1847-1876
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Our duty to the African race. An address delivered at Washington, D. C., January 21, 1851
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Richard Fuller was an American Baptist clergyman and pastor. He was a powerful and devout preacher, and though his adherence to Baptist doctrines at times verged upon complacency, he kept uppermost in his mind always the need of humility and tolerance.
Background
Richard Fuller was the ninth of the ten children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Middleton) Fuller. He was born on April 22, 1804, in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in Baltimore.
About the time of his birth, his parents joined the Baptist church, but he was brought up more an Episcopalian, it seems than anything else.
Education
Richard Fuller went to school in Beaufort, and in 1820, following the example of his brothers, he set out to attend college in the North.
Fuller's career at Harvard was cut short in December 1822, in the midst of his junior year, when he developed symptoms of what was thought to be tuberculosis.
A year or so of life in Northampton as prescribed by his doctors made him well again, and when his class was graduated in 1824, he was given his diploma, out of consideration for his past good record.
Then, he returned home and after a short period of private study, began to practice law.
Career
A few months after his marriage, Fuller was converted and in 1832 he entered the Baptist ministry and began in Beaufort a fifteen years’ pastorate. He made a tour of Europe in 1836.
In 1839, certain insinuations against the Catholic Church made in resolutions passed by the Prince William Temperance Society, petitioning the South Carolina legislature to enact a law of prohibition, gave rise to a controversy in the Charleston Courier between himself and his friend, John England the Catholic Bishop of Charleston, which, though protracted and stringent, was characterized by great personal courtesy on both sides.
Another public controversy of his was inaugurated in the latter part of 1844, when, at the request of the Christian Reflector of Philadelphia, he published in that paper an article explaining his belief that slavery was sanctioned by the Bible. The article was answered by his fellow Baptist divine, Francis Wayland, who invited a reply.
The ensuing argument, handled with great skill and decorum by both participants, was in 1845 put into a book, Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution. In 1847, he went to Baltimore where he was pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church, 1847-71, and of the Eutaw Place Church, 1871-76.
His reason for going there was largely the position of the city between the North and the South and its consequent prééminence as a place for observing the more and more turbulent aspect of sectional misunderstanding.
In January 1851, before the American Colonization Society, meeting in Washington to consider some of the phases of this misunderstanding, he made an address, Our Duty to the African Race (1851), which was so wise, perspicacious, and temperate that it pleased nobody.
During the Civil War, he remained in Baltimore, doing what he could, then and afterward, to alleviate popular distress which he had long foreseen and loathed.
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Personality
Fuller was a powerful and devout preacher, and though his adherence to Baptist doctrines at times verged upon complacency, he kept uppermost in his mind always the need of humility and tolerance.
Connections
In August 1831, Fuller was married to Charlotte Bull, daughter of James and Ann Stuart Bull.