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BIOGRAPHY: Moses D Denman
Born: Aug. 11, 1850 (to Jackson H. [Sr.] & Ann Wood Briscoe Denman, Larissa, Texas)
Never married
Professed a hope: 1865
Baptized: 1872 (by Eld. Moses H. Denman, Cedar Grove Church)
Primary fields of labor: Texas, Oklahoma
Churches served: Cedar Grove, Beulah
Deceased: Jan. 8, 1907 (Beaver County, Oklahoma)
Publications of note: the Old School Baptist Quarterly (1906-1907); Religious Writings (published posthumously in 1907)
IN EARLY CHILDHOOD my parents taught me of God and His laws and Jesus Christ and his crucifixion, also of Heaven, of Hell, and of Satan, as recorded in the Bible. Thus Father and Mother trained me to respect God and His holy worship. They often carried me to church and caused me to sit still and behave myself in the house of God. While this could not cause me to know God or to lovingly believe in Jesus, and though I then cared for none of these things, yet for all this early parental teaching and much more I now feel most heartily thankful to them and to the Lord.
— M.D. Denman, “Experience”
AT AN EARLY AGE he manifested great respect for superiors, an abiding interest in the lives of great men, and a strong desire to imitate, the good.
— Horace Denman, Obituary
IN EARLY CHILDHOOD he greatly enjoyed the company and conversation of Christian people, and was often moved to tears when the subject of Jesus and His crucifixion was mentioned.
— Eld. R.H. Pittman’s Biographical History of Primitive or Old School Baptist Ministers of the United States
AFTER RECEIVING a hope I desired to join the church and be baptized, but deferred doing so for about three or four years. During these years of trying conflicts many arguments were presented to keep me away from the church. The most forcible of these was a sense of my unfitness and unworthiness.
— M.D. Denman, “Experience”
HE WAS NEVER MARRIED but remained with his parents and proved a dutiful son; acquired a liberal education, taught school and earned money with which to attend college and graduated with honors in the medical department of the University of Tennessee [in 1882].
— Pittman’s Biographical History
FOR SOME EIGHTEEN YEARS following the completion of his medical course, he was actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and in his home neighborhood, Sparta, Bell Co. Texas…. Wishing to relieve the sufferings or to advance the well being of others, he never hesitated because of the night or the fierceness of the storm, nor did he question about the pay.
— Horace Denman, Obituary
HE GAVE UP his chosen profession so he could fulfill a duty he owed to his Heavenly Father, being impressed to travel and speak and write comfortably to the children of God.
— Ann W. Denman, Preface to Religious Writings of Moses D. Denman (1907)
HE… GAVE HIMSELF almost entirely to scriptural study and scriptural work. He led a life of abstinence and self-sacrificing devotion to the cause he espoused.
— Horace Denman, Obituary
IN 1865 HE PROFESSED a hope in Christ, joined the Old School Baptists at Cedar Grove Church and was baptized by his grandfather, Elder Moses H. Denman; was licensed to preach and in the latter part of his life gave up his chosen profession in order to be free to travel, speak and write of Jesus and His salvation; moved to Beaver County, Oklahoma, in 1904, and soon after began the publication of the Old School Baptist Quarterly.
— Pittman’s Biographical History
HE WAS EARLY LIBERATED to exercise in the public and has at all times since proven himself by a pious life and a godly conversation. He was a hard student and a zealous advocate of the truth. He has written much. In his meditations, in his preaching and in his writings he has dwelt much on the beauty and sufferings of Christ, the obligation of all men to live uprightly, but the total inability of any to attain unto eternal life except by the imputed righteousness of Christ.
— Horace Denman, Obituary
IT WAS SAD to leave the home I loved, specially Cedar Grove church. Yet duty urged me, to come with my aged parents. So on bidding the dear brethren and sisters of my home adieu, to go from them and from all the brethren of whom I was unworthy, I felt as if doomed to exile from the dear church of God in this new country. Feeling sure it was God’s hand taking me away from my beloved home church, I tried to be resigned. But since our Lord has planted this little church here, I feel to thank God and take courage. “Praise the Lord, oh, my soul.” If not deceived it is our chief concern to serve or keep house for our dear Saviour, in spirit and in truth.
— M.D. Denman, “Peculiar Providence”
GO ON in the discharge of your felt duty, and may Heaven’s rich blessings rest upon you.
— letter from R.A. Biggs in Old School Baptist Quarterly vol.1 no.1 (Jan. 1906)
BROTHER M. D. DENMAN edited and published a quarterly magazine with the title Old School Baptist Quarterly, which he furnished gratuitously…[an] excellent periodical.
— Eld. John R. Daily, as quoted at Primitive Baptist Online
HIS THOUGHTS were generally brief, clear and scrupulously exact.
— Horace Denman, Obituary
I HAVE RECEIVED sample copies of your much esteemed paper, The Baptist Quarterly, and handed them to brothers, sisters and friends, and all seemed to like them very much. I feel like I want to say that I know what you set forth will not trouble God’s people. If I know the truth it is plainly set forth in this paper. I know the truth has not nor never will trouble the church of God. But, dear brother, the truth will always unite God’s people.
— letter from A.B. Chambers in Old School Baptist Quarterly vol.1 no.4 (Oct. 1906)
I RECEIVED one of your papers, The Baptist Quarterly, and found it full of gospel truth. It is my heart’s desire that the Lord may bless your efforts to feed the church of God. I love to read your paper where there is no one fighting against another.
May the Lord keep you from publishing such unkindness.
— letter from Virgil F. Agan in Old School Baptist Quarterly vol.1 no.4 (Oct. 1906)
HE HAS OFTEN TIMES said to me “that he wanted to help build church houses, and assist the needy, especially the needy of the household of faith.”
— Ann W. Denman, Preface to Religious Writings
HE WAS VERY ZEALOUS in the cause of truth and on his deathbed told his brothers that he wanted all his property used for the benefit of the Old School Baptists.
— Pittman’s Biographical History
[AT THE TIME of his final illness] he was improving and preparing his land to rent out, thereby enabling him to devote all his time, talent and efforts to the cause of Christ and his people, the Primitive Baptist, without money and without price.
— Ann W. Denman, Preface to Religious Writings
HE HAD BEEN in feeble health for several weeks and was much weakened by indigestion until by undue exertion and exposure he contracted a spell of pneumonia of the most violent character. He took his bed Jan. 2, and at 11 o’clock Jan. 8, passed away very suddenly from an attack of heart failure.
— Horace Denman, Obituary
LET US REJOICE in hope of our final glorious meeting and recognition of Jesus and His saints, at His second personal coming. Then with our departed loved ones, in sweet
memory that though self-defiled, Jesus has atoned for our sins, and renewed us by His grace, our purified and happy spirits praising our Saviour shall sing, “Thou wast slain,
and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.” Rev. v. 9.
— M.D. Denman, “He Is Not Dead But Sleepeth”
BROTHER DEWITT’S DEATH is deeply deplored by friends and relatives and by the membership of Beulah church, Beaver County, Oklahoma, where his membership was at the time of his death. He was one who walked not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of the scornful but his delights were in the law of the Lord and in His laws did he meditate day and night.
— Horace Denman, Obituary
SUCH DEVOTION to the cause of Christ makes the departed one live in the hearts of the children of God.
— Eld. John R. Daily, as quoted at Primitive Baptist Online |
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