[1] David Dockery described him as "one of the most influential and shaping leaders in Southern Baptist life in the twentieth century".
[2] Jerry Faught held him to be "perhaps the finest denominational statesman Southern Baptists have ever known.
"[3] He chaired the committee that drafted the 1963 revision of the Baptist Faith and Message.
[4] He graduated from Howard College (later named Samford University) and then attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he earned a doctorate in 1938.
[5] He is memorialized at two places on the campus of Samford University.