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title: 'Daniel Baker: The Heart of a Preacher'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-06-14
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-daniel-baker-the-heart-of-a-preacher
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# Daniel Baker: The Heart of a Preacher

“O may I never become a cold, lifeless, sentimental preacher, but may I imitate the zeal of a Whitefield, the tenderness of a Hervey, the affection of a Baxter, and blend all with the pure, sound, evangelical principles of a Doddridge.” — [**Daniel Baker**](/authors/daniel-baker) (July 31, 1813 journal entry) in [William M. Baker](/authors/william-munford-baker), *The Life and Labours of Daniel Baker, D.D.* (1858), pp. 66-67