Blog of the Week 8

Micah Thomas 1778-1853

The first oil painting that I ever saw
Was of a man who had lived long before.
Micah Thomas his name, the people said,
Who for many years back had been quite dead.
Yet in his day, God's people he had led,
Serving as principal of a college
Filling young men's hearts with holy knowledge.
This blog is now here to elucidate
Who he was and why to appreciate
What he did on earth, his point of view,
One sev'n sev'n eight to eighteen fifty two.

As the above doggerel reveals the first oil painting I ever saw was of Micah Thomas. I must have been four. It hung in the main Sunday School hall of the chapel where I was eventually converted. You can see it on the blog clip. Micah Thomas was the principal of the Baptist College that preceded the one that later moved to Cardiff. I began the blog in 2012 It can be found here. There are 56 posts there. There have been a modest 5000 hits or so, 

Most popular post on the blog is the first part of an article by E W Price Evans in the Baptist Quarterly in 1951. You can find it here. .