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title	:	Flowers and Fruits From the Wilderness : Or, Thirty Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras
author	:	Morrell, Z.N.
publisher	:	Baylor University
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780918954176
ebook isbn13	:	9780585231754
language	:	English
subject	Baptists--Texas--Missions, Texas--Description and travel, Honduras--Description and travel.
publication date	:	1976
lcc	:	BX6248.T4.M67 1976eb
ddc	:	917.64
subject	:	Baptists--Texas--Missions, Texas--Description and travel, Honduras--Description and travel.

Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness

Introduction "There are some men who cannot be forgotten, and he was one of that number." So spoke M. V. Smith in his memorial sermon at the death of Z. N. Morrell in 1883. Eleven years earlier, at the age of sixty-nine, Morrell had published his famous book Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness. As the memoir of a frontier ministry of thirty-six years, its pages mirror a most remarkable chapter in pioneer missions. It is a nerve-tingling, heart-racing saga. Wracked by lung hemmorhage which demanded that he seek drier climate, Morrell ended in 1835 his fourteen-year ministry in Tennessee. At the age of thirty-two, accompanied by his wife and four children, he set out for the "wilderness" of Texas, hoping to make it "blossom as the rose"one of his favorite preaching texts from Isaiah. Though he followed the advice of his physicians to relocate, Morrell never obeyed their orders, based upon the precarious state of his health, to stop preaching. While noting the hardship of pioneer life in the young Republic led by his fellow-Tennessean (and later fellow-Baptist) Sam Houston, Morrell never complained. Even when reporting worship services to which the men brought their gunssome guarding against hostile Indians while others worshippedhe wrote in terms of the challenge and the assurance of God's will. Feeble but faithful denominations on many occasions joined forces for evangelical missions even while commenting on their differences of viewpoint on baptism, communion and church orders. Protestant Methodists, Episcopal Methodists, Presbyterians, Missionary Baptists (Morrell's group), and anti-Missionary Baptists found strength in community endeavor. The Primitive

Baptists and Two Seed in the Spirit Baptists, however, chose isolation. Great names in Baptist history appear regularly: Pilgrim, Huckins, Byars, Creath, Gaines, Crane, Bagby, Carroll and R. E. B. Baylor. Baylor and Morrell first united their efforts in preaching at the Plum Grove Baptist Church near LaGrange. Morrell "preached"; Baylor "exhorted." Originally from Alabama, Baylor was described by Morrell in the poetic words, ''Here arose a bright star from the east." Their union of effort inspired Morrell to bless God "in faith that the wilderness of the Colorado [River] would blossom as the rose." So it did. Out of those years came the first Sunday School in Texas, demonstrating to the Pedobaptists that Baptists valued their children's spiritual welfare, even if they did not practice infant baptism. Out of those years came Texas' first Baptist Association. This period also saw the chartering of Baylor University in 1845, a full three years before the denomination organized itself into the Baptist Convention of Texas. As it opened, let this introduction close with a tribute from M. V. Smith's funeral eulogy on this giant in Baptist mission work. "Z. N. Morrell occupies a place in the history of Texas that cannot be overlooked." RAY SUMMERS WACO, TEXAS This volume is the sixth volume published by the Markham Press Fund of Baylor University Press, established in memory of Dr. L. N. and Princess Finch Markham of Longview, Texas, by their daughter, Mrs. R. Matt Dawson of Waco, Texas, and Mrs. B. Reid Clanton of Longview, Texas. KENT KEETH CHAIRMAN, MARKHAM PRESS FUND OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS

About This Edition The present facsimile edition of Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness has been assembled from two earlier editions of this work, both in The Texas Collection of Baylor University. The title page, original copyright information, dedication, preface, contents and chapters I-XXXII are from the first (1872) edition. Chapters XXXIII-XXXIV, the portrait engravings and the appendices "In Memoriam," "Memorial Sermon" and "Sketches" are from the "Fourth Edition, Revised" (1886). Additions include the introduction by Dr. Ray Summers, the edition note and the current copyright statement. The only omission from either original edition is a ten-page section of advertisements for other religious works offered by Morrell's publisher, Gould and Lincoln, which appeared at the back of the 1872 edition. This edition has been printed by offset by the Baylor University Press on 60 lb. Warren's Olde Style Wove paper. The cover design is adapted from that of the 1886 edition. Copyright 1976 by THE MARKHAM PRESS FUND OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS Waco, Texas 76703 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-12002 All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America

Page i Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness Or, Thirty-Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras. By Z. N. Morrell, An Old Texan. "The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."ISALAH. "What thou seest, write in a book."REV.

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