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Warren Akin Candler was born on August 23, 1857 near Villa Rica in Carroll County, Georgia, United States; the youngest of seven sons and tenth of the eleven children of Samuel Charles and Martha (Beall) Candler. He was a brother of Asa G. Candler, founder of the Coca-Cola Company and a noted philanthropist. His father, a successful farmer and local merchant, was of English, Irish, and Italian ancestry; his mother was of Scottish descent.
After local schooling, Warren entered Emory College, a Methodist institution in Oxford, Ga. He graduated with first honors in 1875 and, though not yet eighteen, was licensed to preach.
Candler was admitted to the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. An important influence upon the young pastor was Atticus Green Haygood, Methodist minister and president of Emory College, with whom Candler boarded during his first two years of preaching.
Serving in various pastorates in Georgia, Candler soon became a dynamic and highly successful revival preacher. In 1886 Candler became assistant editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, official organ of the Southern Methodist Church. Two years later he was chosen president of Emory College, where over the next ten years he built a reputation for sound management.
In 1898 Candler was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a position he held until he reached the age of compulsory retirement in 1934. Like the church's other bishops, he was an itinerant general superintendent; he continued to live in Georgia and traveled frequently to supervise conferences as far away as Denver.
Active in foreign missionary work, in 1898 Candler made the first of twenty trips to Cuba, where he tried to build a strong native ministry. From 1903 to 1910 he had episcopal responsibility for Mexico; and in 1906 he supervised the mission work in the Orient, particularly the Korean mission, in which he had long been interested. As a trustee of the Southern Methodist-founded Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, Candler strenuously opposed the weakening of denominational control that took place during the administration of Chancellor James H. Kirkland, particularly the appointment of non-Methodists as professors and deans. The dispute was exacerbated in 1913 when Andrew Carnegie offered Vanderbilt a million dollars for its medical school on the condition that the school's seven-man governing board include the chancellor and three men connected with the best medical schools in the country. Candler decried Carnegie as an "agnostic steel-monger" and charged that the Carnegie and Rockefeller boards sought "to dominate the education of the United States. " Meanwhile, in 1910, the Methodist General Conference initiated a lawsuit against Vanderbilt, claiming the right to elect the trustees and to veto any action taken by them. Both claims were denied in 1914 by the Tennessee supreme court in a decision that Candler labeled "a judicial theft. " Having lost Vanderbilt, the Southern Methodist Church, under Candler's leadership, voted to take over Southern Methodist University in Dallas from the Texas conference and to establish a new university at Atlanta. The latter was given the name Emory University and absorbed the earlier Emory College. To create the new university, Candler enlisted the support of his brother Asa, who gave an initial million dollars and subsequently six million more. The institution was on a sound financial basis under the administration of the two brothers: the Bishop served as chancellor (1914-19, 1920 - 22) and Asa as the first chairman of the board of trustees. They were also instrumental in building in Atlanta the Wesley Memorial Hospital, which later became a part of Emory University. Although he often criticized the South, Candler had a deep loyalty to his section and disliked outside intervention and criticism. When John D. Rockefeller offered money to help combat hookworm in the South, Candler condemned the act as "singling out the South for all sorts of reform. " The same regional loyalty led him to oppose the various moves for reunification of Northern and Southern Methodism. When his denomination's General Conference of 1924 adopted a plan of unification, Candler played a major role in defeating its ratification in the annual conferences. Not until 1939 was the union of the two churches (along with the much smaller Methodist Protestant Church) effected; although he did not then approve of it, Candler urged would-be seceders to remain within the national body. Believing that Negroes should be educated, under Southern auspices, to become useful members of Southern society, Candler helped found, in 1884, Paine College in Augusta, Ga. , and served for twenty-five years on its board of trustees. Candler was a lifelong prohibitionist. He nevertheless opposed the Woman's Christian Temperance Union because of its support of woman suffrage, and during the 1928 presidential campaign he firmly resisted appeals to speak out against Alfred E. Smith, asserting that the church should remain aloof from politics.
Candler died at the age of eighty-four at his home in Atlanta of bronchopneumonia, and was buried in nearby Oxford.
In addition to his platform achievement, he was a versatile and productive writer; but he was not a scholar, and little of his massive publication now has value.
Bishop Candler has become something of a legend in Georgia Methodism. As the president of Emory College, Candler increased the endowment and raised faculty salaries, arranged for the construction of a new library building, banned intercollegiate sports, lengthened the programs leading to the bachelor's degree to a full four years, and added a department of theology and two academic chairs (mathematics; history and political economy). He also upgraded the law school, persuading the state legislature to recognize its graduates as equal to law graduates of the University of Georgia. Candler helped to found Paine College in Augusta, Georgia and instrumental in building in Atlanta the Wesley Memorial Hospital. A college in Havana, Cuba, the school of theology at Emory, and a hospital in Savannah, Georgia, all bear his name.
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A leader of the "New Puritanism" that swept the South in the 1880's, he emphasized the old doctrines and the inspiration of the Bible. His sermons were hard-driving attacks on individual indulgences, all of which he judged as sinful; he made little distinction between play reading, theater- and moviegoing, dancing, drinking, gambling, and even playing or watching baseball games.
He was a defender of a strong, even autocratic, episcopacy in the tradition of George Foster Pierce, but he had a large following among Methodist laymen; his outspoken defense of orthodoxy and his prominence led many to regard him as the leading bishop of his church.
As a longtime member of Paine's Board of Trustees, Candler supported the hiring of African Americans to teach, thus helping to create a racially-integrated faculty, unusual in the post-Civil War South.
He was a longtime member of Paine's Board of Trustees.
Candler was also a member and later President of the Board of Trustees at the historically black Paine College in Augusta, GA, which opened in 1882 under the auspices of Methodist Church South.
Short, stout, and square-jawed, with a pugnacious air, he practiced a strenuous, emotional evangelism that brought mass conversions. A shrewd manipulator, able to speak on any topic with little preparation, he loved the limelight and enjoyed his platform successes. A master of humor, irony, sarcasm, and invective, he was also dictatorial, abrupt, intolerant, unwilling to compromise, and wholly lacking in a capacity for self-criticism. Yet his followers were legion, forgiving his shortcomings in the face of his achievement, much of which was made possible by the munificent generosity of his millionaire brother.
On November 21, 1877, Candler married Sarah Antoinette Curtright. They had five children.
