A. C. Dixon (1854-1925)

Amzi Clarence Dixon was a Baptist pastor, Bible expositor, and an evangelist who was popular during the late 19th/early 20th centuries. With R.A. Torrey he edited an influential series of essays , published as The Fundamentals (1910-5) which gave Christian Fundamentalism its name.

Amzi was born near Shelby, North Carolina on 6th July 1954. His father was a Baptist preacher. He was converted while his father was preaching in 1865 and baptized the next year. While still young he believed he had been called to preach.

Career
In 1875 he graduated from Wake Forest College, North Carolina.
He immediately began to serve as a pastor of 2 country churches.

1874-5 pastor of Baptist churches in North Carolina

1876-9 studied at Southern Baptist Seminary and attended University of North Carolina and pastored there

1879-82 pastor at Asheville, North Carolina

1982-90 pastor at Immanuel Baptist church in Baltimore, Maryland
1986 received doctorate from Washington and Lee University

1890-01 pastor at Brooklyn, New York
often rented Opera house on Sunday services

1901-06 pastor in Boston , Massachusetts
taught at Gordon College (See notes)
published *Old and New *

1905 attended the first Baptist World Congress in London

1906-11 pastor at Chicago Avenue Church, Illinois.
(1908 change of name to Moody church)
became syndicated columnist for 3 local papers

1911-19 pastor at Metropolitan Tabernacle (MT) in London
( He followed the great Charles Spurgeon into the pulpit)
1910-15 edited with R.A. Torrey* The Fundamentals*
a very influential series of 90 essays initially published
in 12 volumes ( See notes)
often spoke at large Bible conferences
1919 retired as pastor of MT

1919-21 lectured at Los Angeles Bible Institute and in China & Japan

1922 first pastor of University Baptist Church Baltimore, Maryland

He was a staunch advocate of Fundamentalist Christianity during its developmental period. His preaching was often fiery and direct.

The papers of Amzi number approx, 6,100 items and stored in 30 archival boxes and 4 scrapbooks. (Read Scope and Content Note)

Personal Life
Married Susan Mary (Mollie) Faison in July 1880. They had 5 children.
Susan died on 6th August 1922 in China while attending conference with husband.

Towards the end of his life he had chronic back pain to the extent he suspended his service at University Baptist church. He died of a heart attack on 14th June 1925.

Sources used
Amzi Clarence Dixon Papers
wikipedia