Religion

The present church was built in 1822–1823 under the leadership of Pastor Elipha White. It bears many similarities to Episcopal churches, including clear glass windows with semicircular windows above.

Johnson served only one term in the legislature. Subsequently she was a Methodist missionary for three years, teaching home economics to women in India.

When the sectional split in the Baptist denomination came in 1845, Johnson immediately began work on the constitutional committee for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and served as the new organization’s first president from 1845 to 1851.

Sensing a call to ministry, he applied in May 1886 to the MECS for an exhorter’s license but was denied. He felt there was prejudice against his Holiness views.

Although its students come from most states and many foreign countries, as its central mission Lander University continues to serve the South Carolina Piedmont.

Latter-day Saints, often referred to as Mormons, are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Lee’s ideas would eventually return home to South Carolina in the form of the fundamentalist movement that controlled the South Carolina Baptist Convention by the 1990s.

LeJau worked for the more humane treatment of slaves. He denounced the law that permitted the physical mutilation of runaway slaves and carried on a veritable crusade again brutality, immorality, and profaneness.

For more than half a century Hovie Lister was leader and pianist for the Statesmen Quartet, one of the best-known and most significant exponents of southern gospel music.

Having attained spiritual perfection, in 1921 he drew together his first close disciples and began his spiritual mission. These disciples gave him the name “Meher Baba” (“Compassionate Father”).

One of eight seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (LTSS) was established by Lutherans of German origin in 1830 and is the nation’s second-oldest Lutheran seminary in continuous existence.

Early Lutherans in South Carolina were invariably of German descent. The first were a part of the Purrysburg settlement of mainly French Swiss immigrants in the 1730s along the Savannah River.

In 1864 Lynch journeyed to Rome as Confederate commissioner to the States of the Church (the Holy See), seeking papal recognition of the Confederacy and to turn European opinion in the South’s favor.

The school Mather envisioned was founded twenty years later by the New England Southern Conference (NESC) of the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church.

Of the three colleges that he presided over, Maxcy made his greatest impact on South Carolina College.

Early in life Mays developed an “insatiable desire” for education, but racial inequality and prejudice had severely handicapped his educational aspirations.

Constructed for textile mill workers at McBee’s nearby Reedy River Factory (ca. 1825), it seated 155 people—large enough to hold most of his employees and their families, who were, according to tradition, required to attend services.

A craftsman without formal training, McCollough was nevertheless aware of the new ideas that were transforming Episcopal church architecture. “Ecclesiologists,” influenced by the high-church Oxford movement in England, emphasized the relationship between theology and architecture, believing that new churches should mirror fourteenth-century English Gothic design. Recessed chancels, dark interiors, stained glass, pointed arches, battlements, and cross-topped spires replaced Georgian simplicity.

After the Civil War he became a leader in reorganizing the denomination, calling for the 1866 meeting of the General Conference. At that meeting he was elected a bishop, and he increasingly became the chief spokesman for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

The Anabaptists differed from other Protestants in that they insisted on a conscious choice to join the church (adult baptism), a disciplined church in which members were responsible to each other, and a sharing church in which material needs were met by fellow members. They rejected the union of church and state and the validity of oaths and self-defense, including military service.