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  • SEBTS Commencement - Carl Elkanah Bates May 12, 1960

    Description:
    This service is an SEBTS commencement service. The service begins with prayer (00:00-13:38). Douglas H. Pruden was recognized as the representative from this graduating senior class (13:39-14:29). President Stealey offers warm words of thanks and congratulations to this graduating class (14:30-19:02). He then introduces the speaker, Carl Elkanah Bates, who was pastor of First Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC (19:03-20:45). Special music and singing occurs before he begins to speak (20:46-26:17). His subject for the message is “Nineteen Years From Now,” relating his own life with the lives of those who are graduating and hoping to impart something helpful for them to carry into their futures, namely that God will be with them day after day, until the end of the age. He also encourages them to be fervent in prayer, humilty, and endurance, which are provided in God’s plan through His grace and love (26:18-50:21). The service ends in prayer (50:22-51:27).
    Subject:
    Commencement ceremonies
    Creator:
    Bates, Carl Elkanah and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
    Location:
    Wake Forest (N.C.)
    Language:
    English
    Date Created:
    May 12, 1960
    Resource type:
    Audio
    Identifier:
    SEBTS_Commencement_Carl_Elkanah_Bates_1960-05-12

  • SEBTS Commencement - Dotson McGinnis Nelson, Jr. May 1958

    Description:
    On Thursday, May 15, 1958, the commencement sermon was given in the SEBTS Chapel. After the prelude and processional (start-0:34), Dr. Sydnor Stealey, the President of SEBTS, gave an invocation (0:35-2:40). After a few more songs, prayer, Scripture reading, and the graduates’ gift to the seminary (2:41-22:20), Dr. Dotson McGinnis Nelson, Jr., the pastor at First Baptist Church of Greenville, SC, gave the main address entitled, “Truth Incarnate” (22:21-1:07:15). The service concluded with a hymn, a benediction from Dr. Stealey, and the recessional (1:07:16-end).
    Subject:
    Commencement ceremonies
    Creator:
    Nelson, Dotson McGinnis, Jr. and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
    Location:
    Wake Forest (N.C.)
    Language:
    English
    Date Created:
    May 1958
    Resource type:
    Audio
    Identifier:
    SEBTS_Commencement_Dotson_McGinnis_Nelson_Jr_1958-05

  • SEBTS Commencement - John Hall Buchanan May 14, 1959

    Description:
    After a few songs, the reading of Philippians 1:9-18, and a prayer, Dr. John Hall Buchanan, chairman of the survey committee that helped start Southeastern, is introduced (start-14:32). Dr. Buchanan encourages the class of 1959 from Philippians 1:9-11 (14:35-49:58). Dr. Stealey then concludes the service with a prayer.
    Subject:
    Bible. Philippians and Commencement ceremonies
    Creator:
    Buchanan, John H. (John Hall), 1928- and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
    Location:
    Wake Forest (N.C.)
    Language:
    English
    Date Created:
    May 14, 1959
    Resource type:
    Audio
    Identifier:
    SEBTS_Commencement_John_Hall_Buchanan_1959-05-14