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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Recollections of Columbia College

By C. M. Brittian

(Contributions Columbia College. Lake City. Florida, made to the

Florida Baptist denomination. 1907-1917.1

Article number six by C. M. Brittain

(Note: Columbia College was located on what are now the V.A Medical

Center grounds. Also, the author was the father of the late Carson

Brittain, for many years the pastor and later Pastor Emeritus of the Lake
City First Baptist Church).

No history dealing with the growth of the Baptist denomination in

Florida during the decade referred to above would be complete without a

chapter devoted to Columbia College.

This institution only lived 10 years but performed a real and lasting
service that cannot be forgotten.

As we intimated in our previous article, Columbia College grew out of a

deep and sincere feeling that Florida Baptists needed an institution for
higher learning under direct control of the Convention, and operated by

the Convention.

It had no fight to make on any other institution. It was organized to fill a
real need, and it served its day and generation in the most noble and far-

reaching way.

In our last article, I sketched briefly a few of the most important events

leading up to the founding of the college.

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