Hallo Roland.
Danke für die Infos.
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Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (August 19, 1843 - July 24, 1921) was an American theologian, minister, and writer whose best-selling annotated Bible popularized futurism and dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christians.
Cyrus Scofield was born in Clinton Township, Lenawee County, Michigan, the seventh and last child of Elias and Abigail Goodrich Scofield. Elias Scofield's ancestors were of English and Puritan descent, but the family was nominally Episcopalian.
By 1861 Scofield was living with relatives in Lebanon, Tennessee. At the beginning of the American Civil War, the 17-year-old Scofield enlisted as a private in the 7th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., and his regiment fought at Cheat Mountain, Seven Pines, and Antietam. In 1862, after spending a month in Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Scofield successfully petitioned for a discharge. Scofield then returned to Lebanon and was conscripted again into Confederate service. Ordered to McMinnville, Tennessee, Scofield deserted and escaped behind Union lines in Bowling Green, Kentucky. After taking the Union oath of allegiance, Scofield was allowed safe passage to St. Louis, Missouri, where he settled.
In 1866, he married Leontine LeBeau Cerrè, a member of a prominent French Catholic family in St. Louis. Scofield apprenticed in the law office of his brother-in-law and then worked in the St. Louis assessor's office before moving to Atchison, Kansas in late 1869. In 1871, Scofield was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, first from Atchison for one year and then from Nemaha County for a second. In 1873 he worked for the election of John J. Ingalls as senator from Kansas, and when Ingalls won, the new senator had Scofield appointed U. S. District Attorney for Kansas - at 29, the youngest in the country. Nevertheless, that same year Scofield was forced to resign "under a cloud of scandal" because of questionable financial transactions, that may have included accepting bribes from railroads, stealing political contributions intended for Ingalls, and securing bank promissory notes by forging signatures. Shortly thereafter Scofield may have been jailed on forgery charges.
Perhaps in part because of his self-confessed heavy drinking, Scofield abandoned his wife and two daughters during this period. Leontine Cerrè Scofield divorced him on grounds of desertion in 1883, and the same year Scofield married Hettie Hall von Wartz, with whom he eventually had a son.
According to Scofield, he was converted to evangelical Christianity through the testimony of a lawyer acquaintance. Certainly by the late fall of 1879, Scofield was assisting in the St. Louis campaign conducted by Dwight L. Moody, and he served as the secretary of the St. Louis YMCA. Significantly, Scofield came under the mentorship of James H. Brookes, pastor of Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, a prominent dispensationalist premillennialist.
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Quelle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._I._Scofield
Interessant auch: The Life Story of Scofield
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The drinking, loose ways of the political crowd upon whom Scofield had now turned his back had not been to his liking, nevertheless he himself had been living not at all as a Puritan. The moderate use of liquor was a commonplace in the life in which he moved and had been reared. He drank as he pleased, and, like most men who drink "in moderation," he soon drank too much.
From 1865 until 1879 his life was intense, largely a life of combat in courts and politics which not seldom became extremely embittered. He says himself of that period: "It must not be forgotten or suppressed that the habit of drink during this period became fastened upon me, for it is due to my adorable Lord that His perfect and instantaneous deliverance of me should be made known, as I have testified again and again in meetings."
Quelle:
http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bscofield.pdf
Vielleicht sollte man tatsächlich seine Vergangenheit als Trinker besser berücksichtigen. Er hat sich wohl Ende 1879 oder kurz danach bekehrt.
Gottes Segen,
José