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"The practical effect of this doctrine [Divine Sovereignty] has been to make strong Christians. The men who had come to believe that they were nothing, and God everything, and yet that God was working in them and through them, could do their work in the world, since God gave it to them to do, without fear of men or the devil. The Protestants of Geneva, the Hugenots of France, the Covenanters of Scotland, the Puritans of the English Civil War, and our own Pilgrim Fathers, got the iron in their blood from their Calvinism...it has been associated with an unusual manifestation of moral vision, enthusiasm, and strenuousness...abasing man before God, but exalting him again in the consciousness of a new-born liberty in Christ, teaching him his slavery through sin, yet restoring to him his freedom through grace, leading him to regard all things in the light of eternity, it contributed to form a grave, but very noble and elevated character, rearing a race not afraid to lift up the head before kings."

- WH Griffith Thomas, The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty-nine Articles

NOTE: WH Griffith Thomas was scheduled to be the first professor of theology for Dallas Seminary. He died the year the school was opened.

Oddly enough someone very close to me has just recognized the work God has laid out for her.. The past year has been very hard on her but she knew all along that she was being sharpened.

BTW, she is a 4.5 TULIP

Who was the actual guy who taught theology to teach at Dallas' first semester?

A Dallus alumnus told me that story yesterday, but I can't remember who the substitute was.