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BIOGRAPHY: William M. Mitchell
Born: Jan. 10, 1819 (to James & Margaret Mitchell; Chester, South Carolina)
Convicted of sin: 1834
Married: Jun. 2, 1842 (to Mary E. Taylor)
Baptized: Aug. 1842 (by Eld. J.J.Dickson at Providence Church)
Began exercising: 1843
Ordained: Jul. 1845
Primary field of labor: Alabama
Churches pastored: Mt. Olive, Enon, Macedonia, Canaan
Deceased: Feb. 26, 1901 (Opelika, Alabama)
THIS eminent servant of God…was for many years associate editor of the Gospel Messenger, and was one of the most able spiritual writers of the age.
— Eld. R.H. Pittman’s Biographical History of Primitive or Old School Baptist Ministers of the United States
THE PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS have no more esteemed minister or writer in the United States than Elder Mitchell.
— Eld. Sylvester Hassell, History of the Church of God ch.27 n.1 (1886)
[T]RACE HIS GOODNESS, his affection, and his love of truth in the written page as we do in the case of Paul and other pensmen of the Lord. Before such spiritual excellence and moral worth, such heaven-born humility and Christian love, the world’s grandeur and
ostentation are a thing of nought. We need not ask, who will write the memorial of his life or his epitaph in death. He needeth no epistle of commendation from any, for he being dead, yet speaketh, and our edified and instructed hearts are the seal of his
ministry. The spirit of devotion and love, and the incense of spirituality are in all his writings.
— Eld. S.B. Luckett, as quoted in Pittman’s Biographical History
[HE] HAD but poor advantages of education,though by hard study and close application advanced far enough in English studies to teach public school, which he followed a few years in his early manhood.
— Pittman’s Biographical History
[HE] WAS before his baptism wonderfully impressed with the thought that he must preach – the Lord leading his mind, when trying to pray, to read the 12th chapter of Isaiah, and at the fourth verse deeply impressing upon his mind the words ‘You must preach’.
— Pittman’s Biographical History
HIS GREAT SUFFERINGS from spinal disease, caused by lifting when fifteen years old, prevented him from serving churches and preaching much from the close of 1850 to near the close of 1854.
— Eld. Sylvester Hassell, History of the Church of God ch.27 n.1 (1886)
[HE] PREACHED his first sermon eleven months after uniting with the church—speaking, about two hours much to the edification of hearers: was ordained to all the functions of the gospel ministry July, 1845 and after more than forty years of useful, faithful and exemplary service died at his home in Opelika, Ala. February 26, 1901, in his eighty-third year of age.
— Pittman’s Biographical History |
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