Of the International Sunday School Union.
Son of Philip and Sarah Maxwell. Married Clara T Durham about 1889. Children: Louise, May, Lee, and Clara.
Excerpts from "Official Report, 1902-190?":
"Rev. L. B. Maxwell, our field worker among the colored people, after seven years of splendid service, died March 15, 1902."
"After he was graduated from Atlanta University and Hartford Seminary, he remained for ten years the pastor of the First Congregational Church at Savannah, Ga. During the last six years of his life he was the Field Worker for the South of the International Sunday-school Convention."
"On Sunday morning [April 1901] he preached what proved to be his last sermon on earth, at the Wheat Street Baptist Church, Atlanta. On Sunday afternoon at one o'clock he addressed the famous Ogden Party, then on its first educational tour through the South. The meeting was held in the First Congregational Church, Atlanta. The church was too small to accommodate the large crowd of whites and blacks assembled. There were more people in the yard and streets than were inside the church edifice. It was arranged that Brother Maxwell should deliver his address from a side door of the church, so as to be heard by those outside as well as by those inside, and there Brother Maxwell took his stand, anxious always to please everybody, and for nearly one hour on a raw April day he spoke to the people, apparently unconscious of the fact that he was standing all the time in a draught. At three o'clock the same day, without going home for dinner and without stopping to take sufficient rest, he went across town nearly two miles to address the B. Y. P. U. of Friendship Baptist Church. That night he went home, took to his bed, and never again appeared in public.
He was not long confined to his bed before the attending physicians announced that he was stricken with tuberculosis and that his complete restoration to health was impossible. On November 20, 1901, thanks to the generosity of the International Committee, he was taken from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Cal., with the hope that in a new and different climate his life might be prolonged. From that far-off city, he was called to his reward on March 15, 1902, after a continued illness of eleven and one-half months."
"The funeral services were held in Bethel A. M. E. Church, the Congregational Church, the church of his faith, being too small to accommodate the three thousand people, white and black, who attended the exercises. Ministers of many different denominations took part in the service. He had given his life to interdenominational Sunday-school work, and it was fitting that he should have had an interdenominational funeral. He left a widow and four small children— three girls and one boy— the oldest being only twelve and the youngest two years old In remembering the sainted dead, let not the International Committee forget the widow and the fatherless children."
"The world will not for many generations look again upon the like of L. B Maxwell. I speak advisedly. In making the man whom we lately knew by that name, Nature used her best material. In him the physical, intellectual and moral elements were so blended that it might well be said that he was a well-rounded man, unless perhaps it might be thought that his physical strength was not sufficient for his superior mentality. He might have excelled in law, in literature, in statesmanship or politics; he might have succeeded in business; he was pre-eminently fitted for the work of a college professor. But he preferred to devote, and did devote, his splendid talents to the [unreadable] the good of men by proclaiming the simple story of the cross.
Son of Philip and Sarah Maxwell. Married Clara T Durham about 1889. Children: Louise, May, Lee, and Clara.
Excerpts from "Official Report, 1902-190?":
"Rev. L. B. Maxwell, our field worker among the colored people, after seven years of splendid service, died March 15, 1902."
"After he was graduated from Atlanta University and Hartford Seminary, he remained for ten years the pastor of the First Congregational Church at Savannah, Ga. During the last six years of his life he was the Field Worker for the South of the International Sunday-school Convention."
"On Sunday morning [April 1901] he preached what proved to be his last sermon on earth, at the Wheat Street Baptist Church, Atlanta. On Sunday afternoon at one o'clock he addressed the famous Ogden Party, then on its first educational tour through the South. The meeting was held in the First Congregational Church, Atlanta. The church was too small to accommodate the large crowd of whites and blacks assembled. There were more people in the yard and streets than were inside the church edifice. It was arranged that Brother Maxwell should deliver his address from a side door of the church, so as to be heard by those outside as well as by those inside, and there Brother Maxwell took his stand, anxious always to please everybody, and for nearly one hour on a raw April day he spoke to the people, apparently unconscious of the fact that he was standing all the time in a draught. At three o'clock the same day, without going home for dinner and without stopping to take sufficient rest, he went across town nearly two miles to address the B. Y. P. U. of Friendship Baptist Church. That night he went home, took to his bed, and never again appeared in public.
He was not long confined to his bed before the attending physicians announced that he was stricken with tuberculosis and that his complete restoration to health was impossible. On November 20, 1901, thanks to the generosity of the International Committee, he was taken from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Cal., with the hope that in a new and different climate his life might be prolonged. From that far-off city, he was called to his reward on March 15, 1902, after a continued illness of eleven and one-half months."
"The funeral services were held in Bethel A. M. E. Church, the Congregational Church, the church of his faith, being too small to accommodate the three thousand people, white and black, who attended the exercises. Ministers of many different denominations took part in the service. He had given his life to interdenominational Sunday-school work, and it was fitting that he should have had an interdenominational funeral. He left a widow and four small children— three girls and one boy— the oldest being only twelve and the youngest two years old In remembering the sainted dead, let not the International Committee forget the widow and the fatherless children."
"The world will not for many generations look again upon the like of L. B Maxwell. I speak advisedly. In making the man whom we lately knew by that name, Nature used her best material. In him the physical, intellectual and moral elements were so blended that it might well be said that he was a well-rounded man, unless perhaps it might be thought that his physical strength was not sufficient for his superior mentality. He might have excelled in law, in literature, in statesmanship or politics; he might have succeeded in business; he was pre-eminently fitted for the work of a college professor. But he preferred to devote, and did devote, his splendid talents to the [unreadable] the good of men by proclaiming the simple story of the cross.
Of the International Sunday School Union.
Son of Philip and Sarah Maxwell. Married Clara T Durham about 1889. Children: Louise, May, Lee, and Clara.
Excerpts from "Official Report, 1902-190?":
"Rev. L. B. Maxwell, our field worker among the colored people, after seven years of splendid service, died March 15, 1902."
"After he was graduated from Atlanta University and Hartford Seminary, he remained for ten years the pastor of the First Congregational Church at Savannah, Ga. During the last six years of his life he was the Field Worker for the South of the International Sunday-school Convention."
"On Sunday morning [April 1901] he preached what proved to be his last sermon on earth, at the Wheat Street Baptist Church, Atlanta. On Sunday afternoon at one o'clock he addressed the famous Ogden Party, then on its first educational tour through the South. The meeting was held in the First Congregational Church, Atlanta. The church was too small to accommodate the large crowd of whites and blacks assembled. There were more people in the yard and streets than were inside the church edifice. It was arranged that Brother Maxwell should deliver his address from a side door of the church, so as to be heard by those outside as well as by those inside, and there Brother Maxwell took his stand, anxious always to please everybody, and for nearly one hour on a raw April day he spoke to the people, apparently unconscious of the fact that he was standing all the time in a draught. At three o'clock the same day, without going home for dinner and without stopping to take sufficient rest, he went across town nearly two miles to address the B. Y. P. U. of Friendship Baptist Church. That night he went home, took to his bed, and never again appeared in public.
He was not long confined to his bed before the attending physicians announced that he was stricken with tuberculosis and that his complete restoration to health was impossible. On November 20, 1901, thanks to the generosity of the International Committee, he was taken from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Cal., with the hope that in a new and different climate his life might be prolonged. From that far-off city, he was called to his reward on March 15, 1902, after a continued illness of eleven and one-half months."
"The funeral services were held in Bethel A. M. E. Church, the Congregational Church, the church of his faith, being too small to accommodate the three thousand people, white and black, who attended the exercises. Ministers of many different denominations took part in the service. He had given his life to interdenominational Sunday-school work, and it was fitting that he should have had an interdenominational funeral. He left a widow and four small children— three girls and one boy— the oldest being only twelve and the youngest two years old In remembering the sainted dead, let not the International Committee forget the widow and the fatherless children."
"The world will not for many generations look again upon the like of L. B Maxwell. I speak advisedly. In making the man whom we lately knew by that name, Nature used her best material. In him the physical, intellectual and moral elements were so blended that it might well be said that he was a well-rounded man, unless perhaps it might be thought that his physical strength was not sufficient for his superior mentality. He might have excelled in law, in literature, in statesmanship or politics; he might have succeeded in business; he was pre-eminently fitted for the work of a college professor. But he preferred to devote, and did devote, his splendid talents to the [unreadable] the good of men by proclaiming the simple story of the cross.
Son of Philip and Sarah Maxwell. Married Clara T Durham about 1889. Children: Louise, May, Lee, and Clara.
Excerpts from "Official Report, 1902-190?":
"Rev. L. B. Maxwell, our field worker among the colored people, after seven years of splendid service, died March 15, 1902."
"After he was graduated from Atlanta University and Hartford Seminary, he remained for ten years the pastor of the First Congregational Church at Savannah, Ga. During the last six years of his life he was the Field Worker for the South of the International Sunday-school Convention."
"On Sunday morning [April 1901] he preached what proved to be his last sermon on earth, at the Wheat Street Baptist Church, Atlanta. On Sunday afternoon at one o'clock he addressed the famous Ogden Party, then on its first educational tour through the South. The meeting was held in the First Congregational Church, Atlanta. The church was too small to accommodate the large crowd of whites and blacks assembled. There were more people in the yard and streets than were inside the church edifice. It was arranged that Brother Maxwell should deliver his address from a side door of the church, so as to be heard by those outside as well as by those inside, and there Brother Maxwell took his stand, anxious always to please everybody, and for nearly one hour on a raw April day he spoke to the people, apparently unconscious of the fact that he was standing all the time in a draught. At three o'clock the same day, without going home for dinner and without stopping to take sufficient rest, he went across town nearly two miles to address the B. Y. P. U. of Friendship Baptist Church. That night he went home, took to his bed, and never again appeared in public.
He was not long confined to his bed before the attending physicians announced that he was stricken with tuberculosis and that his complete restoration to health was impossible. On November 20, 1901, thanks to the generosity of the International Committee, he was taken from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Cal., with the hope that in a new and different climate his life might be prolonged. From that far-off city, he was called to his reward on March 15, 1902, after a continued illness of eleven and one-half months."
"The funeral services were held in Bethel A. M. E. Church, the Congregational Church, the church of his faith, being too small to accommodate the three thousand people, white and black, who attended the exercises. Ministers of many different denominations took part in the service. He had given his life to interdenominational Sunday-school work, and it was fitting that he should have had an interdenominational funeral. He left a widow and four small children— three girls and one boy— the oldest being only twelve and the youngest two years old In remembering the sainted dead, let not the International Committee forget the widow and the fatherless children."
"The world will not for many generations look again upon the like of L. B Maxwell. I speak advisedly. In making the man whom we lately knew by that name, Nature used her best material. In him the physical, intellectual and moral elements were so blended that it might well be said that he was a well-rounded man, unless perhaps it might be thought that his physical strength was not sufficient for his superior mentality. He might have excelled in law, in literature, in statesmanship or politics; he might have succeeded in business; he was pre-eminently fitted for the work of a college professor. But he preferred to devote, and did devote, his splendid talents to the [unreadable] the good of men by proclaiming the simple story of the cross.
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