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In 1866 a ten year old boy named Reuben Archer Torrey began attending school on Walnut Hill in the City of Geneva. His father enjoyed substantial financial and political success in the Metropolitan New York region (he once refused to accept the nomination to run for governor of New York State), but felt his young and growing family would benefit greatly from the wide open country and slower paced life that was typical of Geneva at the time. Their beautiful 200 acre estate provided R.A. (dad was R.S.) with many physical benefits and opportunities. It was during these years that he developed his skills as an able horseman (dad raised horses for the local race track), but his physical talents were evident well beyond farm work, and even included the new sport of baseball.
Apart from the farm, Geneva proved to be just what the young man needed for his mental and spiritual growth as well. In a message entitled "How God Guides" Torrey later stated "When I was a boy, sleeping in a room in our old home in Geneva, N.Y., I dreamed I was sleeping in that room and that my mother, who I dreamed was dead (though she was really living at the time) came and stood by my bed, with a face like an angel's, and begged me to enter the ministry, and in my sleep I promised her that I would. In a few moments I awoke and found it all a dream, but I never could get away from that promise. I never had rest in my soul until I did give up my plans for life and promise God that I would preach."
The diverse religious views of his Congregationalist father, his Presbyterian mother, and his Episcopalian schoolmaster (Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Reed) helped him formulate perspectives that would later carry over into his work as editor of "The Fundamentals", a compilation of various authors that would become the basis of modern day Biblical Fundamentalism. So able was the young man that he graduated Walnut Hill School at the age of 15, and immediately enrolled as a student at Yale. Torrey would later go on to study the preaching methodology of Charles Finney, and eventually joined forces with the great Biblical evangelist Dwight L. Moody. While R.A. became a notable evangelist in his own right, without a doubt, the most important contribution he ever made was with respect to the aforementioned "Fundamentals."
These "fundamentals" still provide a substantial answer to almost all of the trends towards modernism and liberalism seen in many of today's churches. Articles dealing with Darwinism (evolution vs. creationism), German liberalism (can a literal interpretation of the scriptures be trusted?), separation of church and state, Biblical methods of church administration and finance, etc. provide a solid Biblical perspective that undergirds Christ honoring ministries throughout the world.
Grace Baptist Church was established in the 1950's as one of the few bodies of believers determined to remain true to the Word of God in the birthplace of Fundamentalism in America following the fundamentalist tradition. It is our hope that you will join with us in discovering and practicing God's will and Word in this Christian endeavor.
Apart from the farm, Geneva proved to be just what the young man needed for his mental and spiritual growth as well. In a message entitled "How God Guides" Torrey later stated "When I was a boy, sleeping in a room in our old home in Geneva, N.Y., I dreamed I was sleeping in that room and that my mother, who I dreamed was dead (though she was really living at the time) came and stood by my bed, with a face like an angel's, and begged me to enter the ministry, and in my sleep I promised her that I would. In a few moments I awoke and found it all a dream, but I never could get away from that promise. I never had rest in my soul until I did give up my plans for life and promise God that I would preach."
The diverse religious views of his Congregationalist father, his Presbyterian mother, and his Episcopalian schoolmaster (Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Reed) helped him formulate perspectives that would later carry over into his work as editor of "The Fundamentals", a compilation of various authors that would become the basis of modern day Biblical Fundamentalism. So able was the young man that he graduated Walnut Hill School at the age of 15, and immediately enrolled as a student at Yale. Torrey would later go on to study the preaching methodology of Charles Finney, and eventually joined forces with the great Biblical evangelist Dwight L. Moody. While R.A. became a notable evangelist in his own right, without a doubt, the most important contribution he ever made was with respect to the aforementioned "Fundamentals."
These "fundamentals" still provide a substantial answer to almost all of the trends towards modernism and liberalism seen in many of today's churches. Articles dealing with Darwinism (evolution vs. creationism), German liberalism (can a literal interpretation of the scriptures be trusted?), separation of church and state, Biblical methods of church administration and finance, etc. provide a solid Biblical perspective that undergirds Christ honoring ministries throughout the world.
Grace Baptist Church was established in the 1950's as one of the few bodies of believers determined to remain true to the Word of God in the birthplace of Fundamentalism in America following the fundamentalist tradition. It is our hope that you will join with us in discovering and practicing God's will and Word in this Christian endeavor.
