Tolbert Fanning, Farming in Georgia, and Franklin College
Lipscomb, along with his older brother William, was greatly influenced by conservative Nashville, Tennessee church leader Tolbert Fanning. Lipscomb was baptized by Fanning in 1845, and, in 1846, he entered Fanning's Franklin College, graduating in 1849. While a student at Franklin, Lipscomb roomed with the father of Edward Ward Carmack.
Fanning was an enforcer of strict orthodoxy with regard to Restoration doctrines, seeing anything not specifically authorized by the New Testament as an unnecessary and hence sinful addition to the "primitive" Christianity of the 1st century, which the movement was by definition dedicated to restoring.
Lipscomb then spent two years managing a plantation in Georgia before returning to Tennessee.
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