American Decades
Riley, William Bell 1861-1947
MINISTER
Early Ministry.
William Bell Riley was educated at Hanover College in Indiana and then studied at the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. After serving a series of small churches, he became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Minneapolis in 1897, which he quickly developed into one of the largest congregations in the country and a major force in the struggle for Fundamentalism. In 1902 he founded the Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School, which was later expanded with the addition of a seminary and then a college and now is called the Northwestern Schools.
Fundamentalism.
Riley was one of most successful proponents to a general audience of the imminent return of Christ, the premillennialist doctrine that became one of the principles of Fundamentalism in the late nineteenth century. But Riley led the struggle with modernism in his own Northern Baptist Convention and in...
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1920's Religion
