Background
Riley, William Bell was born on March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, United States. Son of Branson Radish and Ruth Anna (Jackson) Riley.
(Out of his fifty years of experience as a pastor and teac...)
Out of his fifty years of experience as a pastor and teacher of homiletics, Dr. Riley prepared this handbook on every question pertaining to the work of the Christian ministry: appointment, preaching, administering the ordinances, per-forming a wedding service, conducting a funeral, untangling church quarrels, visiting, church music, finance, church organizations, the pastor and missions, and transacting church business. The book is Biblical and practical. Its chief authority is the Bible and every chapter has Scriptural quotations enforcing its thesis. It is practical because of the rich experience of the author and his skill in making that experience available to his readers. These forthright directions and suggestions have been tested out by Dr. Riley in the classroom and in the field. They have proved helpful to preachers just beginning their ministerial experience and to those still seeking solutions to so many of the common problems.
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Dr. Riley requires no introduction as a wise and experienced adviser, both of young and old, in the finer qualities of the mind and the attributes of the spirit. In this booklet will be found some of his sagest counsel for the guidance of every prayerful Christian who would attain mastery over self and the world. Dr. Riley deals with four imperatives which lead towards the heights of Christian living - victory over temper, the tongue, trouble and temptation - and indicates how this rich experience may become the possession of every earnest follower of the Lord.
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(The relation of creed to conduct is argued alike by Reaso...)
The relation of creed to conduct is argued alike by Reason and Revelation. The Bible says "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he;" and the keenest observers upon human life have been compelled to concede the scientific accuracy of that claim. The faith of today will determine alike the conduct and character of tomorrow. A false theology eventually fruits in foul living. The opinion of the preacher and the school professor voiced in the presence of youth, is more than a mere matter of polemics; it is practically a matter of morals, hence the title of this book "The Menace of Modernism." Hundreds of grateful students have already bourne testimony to the help received from the original delivery of this series; the author sends it forth asking no greater reward or return than that of lending similar help to thousands.
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(My ministerial life has been a long-drawn-out debate; the...)
My ministerial life has been a long-drawn-out debate; the subject of controversy has been the character of my ministry. For forty-five consecutive years I have been in the pastorate; for the same length of time I have been tempted to quit it for evangelism. Today, in looking over the past, I find my debate is not at an end. On the one hand, the blessed church I serve and the school I was privileged twenty-five years ago to found comfort me concerning the choice of the pastorate. On the other hand, the sight of unregenerate multitudes, walking the broad way, makes me wonder still if I should not have spent every waking hour in soul winning. This debate has determined my life course and has given me, at the lips of my brethren, the title, “The Pastor Evangelist.” I have contributed something like forty large volumes and a greater number of smaller ones to Biblical exposition, to the defense of the essential doctrines of the Church and to the complex questions associated with Church life. The volume on The Perennial Revival was and is an appeal to church men to engage in continuous soul winning, and it contains a setting forth of certain principles which we have found to be both Biblical and practical. This volume is in one sense a companion-piece to that, for it contains a series of twelve sermons which have been blessed, above their fellows, in soul-winning results. We have seen many thousands respond to these discourses in spoken form. We now send them forth in print, trusting that type may not take from them their spiritual power or import. W.B.R. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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(Mr. Louis Entzminger I regard as the greatest Sunday Scho...)
Mr. Louis Entzminger I regard as the greatest Sunday School man on the American Continent. I have reached this opinion after close observation of his work in other fields, and after two extended engagements of Mr. Entzminger in my own church and Sunday School. His present undertaking in the form of Bible exposition adapted to Sunday School workers, is at once an important and much needed work. Having examined his production upon Genesis, I hereby express the hope that he may give equal thought, time, and intelligent treatment to the entire Bible. In case he accomplishes that task, he will put over a colossal undertaking, and one that will bring him the gratitude of thousands of Sunday School teachers and scholars. It has long been my opinion that his exceptional talents should be devoted entirely to the important work of Sunday School teaching, organization, and administration. W. B. RILEY
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Dr. Norris is a fearless man in more ways than one. We have known men who seemed to have any amount of moral courage, who were physical cowards; and we have known men abundantly endowed with physical courage, who were moral cowards. But Dr. Norris is afraid of nothing, either in the physical or moral realms. Who but Dr. Norris would have dared even to attempt what, by the blessing of God, he has achieved in Detroit? Even the most daring of other men would have been afraid to try. It was this Editor's privilege and honour years ago to enjoy the warm personal friendship of the late Russell H. Conwell, in many respects, in his day, the world's greatest lecturer. We never heard Dr. Conwell lecture without feeling at the end that nothing was impossible. We have the same feeling when we read this record of the achievements of Dr. Norris. It gives us a feeling that there is no enemy physical or moral that may not be defeated and utterly routed; nor any task in our Lord's service which may not be accomplished. Dr. Norris has been subject to trials that were no easier to endure than those of Job, but he has triumphed over them all. In Fort Worth, twice his great church was reduced to ashes – each time to rise from the ashes greater than ever. Some people in this northern part of the Continent would be inclined to say, “Yes, of course; but that was in Fort Worth. And Dr. Norris is a Baptist, and Baptists grow in the Southern states almost without cultivation. Notwithstanding their orthodoxy, they seem to be rather indigenous to the soil.” It is a fact that Baptists are perhaps the largest body of Christians in the South, and we think it is probably true that Baptist churches do multiply more rapidly in the South than in the North—that is, of course, under the ministry of ordinary men. But that explanation of the First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, will no longer hold. For what about Detroit? Can anyone find a more difficult city on the American Continent in which to do Christian work than Detroit? It may not be more difficult than Chicago or New York, but certainly the difficulties are at least as great. And yet in the short space of three years the Temple Baptist Church of Detroit has outgrown all its buildings, and like Abraham, has dwelt “in tabernacles, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.” The story of these marvelous achievements must prove an inspiration and tonic to the faith of every true believer; and what is equally important, it will provide a spur to the Christian effort of all who read it. Could we afford it, we would place a copy of this book in the hands of every minister of every denomination on this Continent. It should prove equally valuable to deacons and elders, and church officers of every name and rank in all churches; and we question whether any book outside the Bible was ever published so full of inspiration and suggestion and explicit direction to Sunday School workers as this latest book by Dr. Norris. Dr. W.B. Riley
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(THE successful pastor does not neglect any section of soc...)
THE successful pastor does not neglect any section of society. In his preaching he must provide a portion for each and all. This is to be accomplished by varied methods. The general truths of Scripture are as essential to the spiritual life of mankind as are bread and water to the physical being; and yet as there are special dishes, some adapted to the babe, others to the full-grown man, and still others to old age, so Scriptural truth must be adapted to different ages and sexes. The minister who can give a sermon that attracts, teaches, and inspires children is the subject of sincere congratulation. A speaker who can hold the attention of strong men, break their hearts with a sense of sin, and send them by the route of prayer into the Divine Presence, is always and everywhere in demand. But in this matter of ministering to immortal souls, WOMEN are not to be neglected. Since the day when the Master of men assembled His first disciples, woman has occupied a conspicuous place in the Christian church. As has often been said, she was not only the last at the cross and the first at the tomb, but she was the first to herald the resurrection, and from that moment till now, she has been the prominent messenger of the cross and lover of the Christ. Christianity, in a real sense, became her Magna Charta. From the beginning it emphasized her immortality and set itself for her liberation. Heathenism permitted woman no features of freedom; Judaism granted her but few; Christianity, however, with a single sentence struck the chains of her slavery a breaking blow— “In Christ Jesus ... there is neither male nor female” (Galatians 3:28).
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Riley, William Bell was born on March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, United States. Son of Branson Radish and Ruth Anna (Jackson) Riley.
Teacher’s Course, Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal School. Bachelor of Arts, Hanover (Indiana) College, 1885, Master of Arts, 1888. Graduate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1888.
Doctor of Laws, John Brown U., 1938. Doctor of Divinity, Union U., Jackson, Tennessee, 1911.
Ordained Baptist ministry, Dallasburg, Kentucky, 1883. Pastor at Warsaw and Carrollton, 1884-1887, Tabernacle Church, New Albany, Indiana, 1887-1888 First Church, Lafayette, 1888-1891, First Church, Bloomington. Illinois, 1891-1893, Calvary Church, Chicago, 1893-1897, First Church, Minneapolis, 1897-1942, now pastor emeritus.
Founder, 1902, and since president Northwestern Bible Training School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founder and president Northwestern Evangelical Seminary, 1935. Founder Northwestern College of Liberal Arts, 1944.
Executive secretary The World’s Christian Fundamentals Association, and editor of The Northwestern Pilot. President Minnesota Baptist State Convention, 1944-1945. Author: The Greater Doctrines of Scripture, 1893.
The Gospel in Jonah. 1895. The Seven Churches of Asia, 1895. Fads and Fanaticisms, 1895.
Vagaries and Verities, 1903. Finality of the Higher Criticism, 1909. Messages for the Metropolis.
The Perennial Revival. Evolution of the Kingdom, 1913. Crisis of the Church, 1914.
Menace of Modernism, 1917. Daniel versus Darwin, 1918. Ephesians the Threefold Epistle, 1919.
Inspiration or Evolution?, 1923. Christ the Incomparable, 1924. The Blight of Unitarianism, 1926.
Revival Sermons, 1929. Ten Burning Questions, 1932. The Philosophies of Father Coughlin, 1935.
Youth’s Victory Lies This Way. Also, beginning in 1924, was author of a Series of 40 vols., completed in 1938, under title “The Bible of the Expositor and the Evangelist.” Writer of many brochures and articles on religious subjects, including: The Coming and Kingdom of Christ, 1914. Light on Prophecy, 1918.
God Hath Spoken, 1919. Sermons for the Times, 1924. The Minneapolis Pulpit, 1929.
The Goal of Religion, 1935. Pastoral Problems; The Only Hope of Church or World, 1936. Saved or. Lost, Is Jesus Coming Again?, My Bible—An Apologetic, Wives of the Bible, The Victorious Life, 1937.
Seven New Testament Soul Winners, Wanted—A World Leader, 1939. Seven New Testament Converts, 1940. Christianity’s Conflict with Its Counterfeit, 1940.
Rethinking the Church, 1941. Problems of Youth, 1941. Sunset Sermons or After Eighty, 1943.
The Preacher and His Preaching, 1947. Home: Twin Lakes Lodge, 3718 Golden Valley Road Address: 50 Willow St., Minneapolis.
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Married Lillian Howard, December 31, 1890 (died August 10, 1931).; married second, Marie R. Acomb, September 1, 1933. Children: Arthur Howard, Mason Hewitt, Herbert Wilde, Eunice, William Bell, John Branson.