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Robert Greene Lee, 1886-1978, Baptist Preacher
Written by: Unknown Posted on: 03/17/2003
Category: Biographies
Source: CCN
Robert Greene Lee
1886-1978
Robert G. Lee began his career on a farm near Fort Mill,
South Carolina, where he was born of poor but deeply reli-
gious parents. Early in life, he felt the call to be a
preacher, and in spite of many obstacles he heeded that call.
He won many scholastic and oratory honors at the Furman
Preparatory School and Furman University, Greenville, South
Carolina, where he graduated with an A.B. degree in 1913. He
took postgraduate work at the Chicago Law School, receiving a
Ph.D. in international law in 1919. He was ordained at his
boyhood church at Fort Mill, South Carolina, in 1910.
His first full-time pastorate was at Edgefield, South
Carolina. This was followed by pastorates at First Baptist
Church, Chester, South Carolina; First Baptist Church, New
Orleans, Louisiana; and Citadel Square Baptist Church,
Charleston, South Carolina. He was pastor of the Bellevue
Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee, from December, 1927, to
April 10, 1960. During his pastorate at Bellevue, over 24,000
people joined the church, over 7,600 of these for baptism.
Dr. Lee preached his famous sermon, Payday...Some Day, over
1,200 times in the United States and other countries. He died
July 20, 1978, in his home in Memphis, Tennessee.
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