RILEY, WILLIAM BELL: 1861-
William Bell Riley was born in Greene County, Ind., on Mar. 22, 1861. His parents were Branson Radish and Ruth Anna Jackson Riley.
Riley attended Valparaiso Normal and Hanover College, receiving the A.B. degree in 1885 and the A.M. in 1888. In the latter year he also graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He later received the LL.D. from John Brown University (1938) and the D.D. from Union University (1911).
He married Lillian Howard on Dec. 31, 1890. She died in 1931, and on Sept. 1, 1933, he married Marie R. Acomb.
The Rev. Mr. Riley had been ordained to the Baptist ministry in Kentucky in 1883, and he occupied pulpits in Warsaw and Carrollton, Ky., New Albany and Lafayette, Ind., and Bloomington and Chicago, Ill., between 1884 and 1897. In the latter year he became pastor of the First Church, Minneapolis , where he occupied the pulpit until 1942, when he retired. In 1902 he founded the Northwestern Bible Training School at Minneapolis and continued as its president. He founded and became president of the Northwestern Evangelical Seminary in 1935. One of the most voluminous of modern writers on religion, he was also executive secretary of The World's Christian Fundamentals Association and editor of THE NORTHWESTERN PILOT.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Baptist Fundamentals. (Co-author.)
- The Greater Doctrines of Scripture. 1893.
- The Seven Churches of Asia. New
York, 1895.
- Fads and Fanaticisms. 1895.
- The Gospel in Jonah. New York,
1895.
- Vagaries and Verities.
Minneapolis, 1903.
- The Finality of the Higher Criticism; or the Theory of
Evolution and False Theology. Minneapolis,
1909.
- The Evolution of the Kingdom. New
York, 1913.
- Messages for the Metropolis.
Minneapolis, 1913.
- The Perennial Revival; a Plea for Evangelism.
Minneapolis, 1913.
- The Coming and Kingdom of Christ. 1914.
- Crisis of the Church. New York,
1914.
- The Menace of Modernism. New
York, 1917.
- Daniel vs. Darwinism.
Minneapolis, 1918.
- Light on Prophecy. 1918.
- Ephesians; the Three-Fold Epistle; Seven Studies.
Chicago, 1919.
- God Hath Spoken. Minneapolis,
1919.
- Inspiration or Evolution?
Minneapolis, 1923.
- The Bible of the Expositor and the Evangelist.
Cleveland, O., 1924-38. 40 vols.
- Christ the Incomparable.
Chicago, 1924.
- Sermons for the Times. 1924.
- The Blight of Unitarianism. 1926.
- Revival Sermons; Essentials in Effective Evangelism.
Chicago, 1929.
- The Minneapolis Pulpit. 1929.
- Ten Burning Questions. Chicago,
1932.
- The Goal of Religion. 1935.
- The Philosophies of Father Coughlin; Four Sermons.
Grand Rapids, Mich., 1935.
- Pastoral Problems. Chicago,
1936.
- Youth's Victory Lies This Way.
Grand Rapids, Mich., 1936.
- The Only Hope of Church or World; What Is It?
Glasgow, 1936.
- The Victorious Life. Grand Rapids,
Mich., 1937.
- Is Jesus Coming Again?
Grand Rapids, Mich., 1937.
- My Bible; an Apologetic. Grand Rapids,
Mich., 1937.
- Saved or Lost?
Grand Rapids, Mich., 1938.
- Wives of the Bible; a Cross-Section of Femininity.
Grand Rapids, Mich., 1938.
- Seven New Testament Soul-Winners. Grand
Rapids, Mich., 1939.
- Wanted–a World Leader. 1939.
- The Conflict of Christianity with Its Counterfeits.
Minneapolis, 1940.
- Re-Thinking the Church. Chicago,
1940.
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- Seven New Testament Converts. Grand Rapids,
Mich., 1940.
- Problems of Youth. Grand Rapids,
Mich., 1941.
- At Sunset; or, After 80. Butler,
Ind., 1944.
- Fundamentalism vs. Liberalism.
- Christian Science; Its Opposition to the Word of God.
New York.
- Will Christ Come Again?
Minneapolis.
- Divine Healing; or, Does God Answer Prayer for the Sick?
New York.
- Spiritualism; a Subject That Should Be Studied in the Light
of God's Word. New York.
- Theosophy. New York.
- Arguments Against; McCabe-Riley Debates.
Minneapolis.
- Bible; Is It an Evolution or an Inspiration.
Minneapolis.
- The Challenge of Orthodoxy.
Minneapolis.
- Christian Confederacy. Chicago.
- The Eclipse of Faith.
Minneapolis.
- Evolution; Does It Tend to Atheism?
Minneapolis.
-
Great Question, Who Was Christ?
- Interchurch; or, the Kingdom by Violence.
Minneapolis.
- Jerusalem and the Jew.
Minneapolis.
- Liberty of Faith vs. License of Infidelity.
Minneapolis.
- Mistakes of Millennial Dawn. Los
Angeles.
- Modern Amusements. Minneapolis.
- Old Testament Types. Los
Angeles.
- The Redemption of the Downtown.
Minneapolis.
- Riley vs. Fosdick. Minneapolis.
- Seven Churches of Asia. New
York.
- The Challenge of Youth.
- The Christian Fundamentalist.
- God Hath Chosen.
- Unveiling the Future.
