Boyce, James Petigru

D.D. (Columbian College, Washington, D.C., 1859), LL.D. (Union University, Murfreesborough, Tenn., 1872), Baptist; b. at Charleston, S.C., Jan. 11, 1827; graduated at Brown University, 1847; studied theology in Princeton Theological Seminary, 1849-51; became pastor of the Baptist Church, Columbia, S.C., 1851; profe or of theology in Furman University, Greenville, S.C., 1855; chairman of the faculty, and profe or of systematic theology, 1859, in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, then at Greenville, S.C., and of church government and pastoral duties, 1877. In 1877 the seminary was moved to Louisville, Ky. He was chaplain of the Sixteenth South-Carolina Volunteers from 1861 to 1862; member of the South- Carolina Legislature from 1862 to 1865; of the governor's (Magrath) staff and State Council, 1864 and 1865; and of the State convention for reconstruction in 1865; from 1872 to 1879 was annually elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a trustee of the John F. Slater Fund. Besides speeches, sermons, and articles, he has published Three Changes in Theological Education, Greenville, S.C., 1856 (the principles of which addre are embodied in the peculiar plan of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary); Brief Catechism of Bible Doctrine, Greenville, S.C., 1863, last ed. Louisville, Ky. r 18S4; Abstract of Theology, Louisville, Ky., 1882.