BIO:Robert Reynolds Jones 1883-1968 American evangelist and educator.

   Robert Reynolds Jones, better known as Dr. Bob Jones Sr., was born in
Dale County, Alabama, on October 30, 1883. He was converted to Christ
at the age of 11, began to preach and hold revival meetings at the age
of 13, and was licensed to preach at the age of 15. He preached in the
cotton fields, and in country churches and in brush arbors. Later, he
held huge campaigns in American cities large and small, and preached
around the world in many cities and mission fields. In 1927 Dr. Jones
founded Bob Jones College, now Bob Jones University, where each year
more than 3,500 students from every state in the union and 34 foreign
countries are matriculated. This school, now located in Greenville,
South Carolina, came into existence as a result of the hundreds of
young people Dr. Jones had met in his ministry, whose faith had been
shaken in colleges and universities. He set out to build a school that
would combat the atheistic trend in education, and would become a
center in Christian education. Throughout his entire ministry, Dr.
Jones was a leading spokesman for the fundamental, conservative,
Scriptural position, while opposing modernism, neo-orthodoxy, and neo-
evangelicalism. The many hundred graduates of Bob Jones University
serving the Lord in churches in America and on the mission fields of
the world are an extension of his ministry to this present hour.
