Segregation: Right up there with the Gospel

-  First words of the sermon, "Is Segregation Scriptural." 

The answer to that question is, of course, "Yes. As Scriptural as the Gospel itself."

Of Networks & Verbal Perfection

A. THE NETWORK:
"I know what is going on over there in Japan. I have the contacts that make me know what is going on."

B. HIS WORD IS PERFECT:
"I have been preaching for sxity-one years, and I have never in my life been trapped by anything I have ever said. I have always been able to face what I have said, because I have always had an element of caution in it."

 - Letter to Dr. Gerald Johnsons

[Trapped by what he said? As far as the posthumously discovered letters from the offices of Strom Thurmond, the ones in which he says, "Please discard when you're done reading..." those are a different matter altogether.]

More Satan

To be perfectly frank with you, I am sure the opposition on the part of the education committee is the University is satanic. It is opposition to our Christian testimony and to this progressive school that is standing when others are failing and is showing up the failures of these other schools. There is no basis whatsoever for their attitude.

Bob Jones, Sr. to Governor Strom Thurmond, 1949

Purge

Often a rumor goes around that we expel lots of students and...this year we have lived up to that rumor.

Bob Jones, Jr. to the BJU Board of Trustees, 1965

Uncivility

Dr. Jones went on to say that he had explained to some of the members of the Board previously that BJU refused to sign the statement of compliance to the civil rights law, and he went on to say that by signing this statement we would not only have been agreeing to integrate but, most important of all, would also be in fact turning the reins of the property and the policies of the school over to the Government.

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1965

Don't Tell

I want to be free to write you what I have in mind, and be sure to have your secretary tear up any of my letters that have confidential matters in them after you have read them.

Bob Jones, Sr. to Governor Strom Thurmond, 1949

Praying to a White god

Our heavenly Father, bless our country. We thank Thee for our ancestors. We thank Thee for the good, Christian people -- white and black. We thank Thee for the ties that have bound these Christian white people and Christian colored people together throughout the years, and we thank Thee that white people who had a little more money helped them build their churches and stood by them and when they got sick, they helped them. No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South. Help these colored Christians not to get swept away by all the propaganda that is being put out now. Help us to see this thing and to understand God’s established order and to be one in Christ and to understand that God has fixed the boundaries of the nations so we would not have trouble and misunderstanding. Keep us by Thy power and use us for Thy glory, for Jesus’ sake. Amen.

Bob Jones, Sr., "Is Segregation Scriptural?"