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title: 'Daniel Baker’s Invitation to Princeton Seminary Students to Come to Texas'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-06-04
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-daniel-bakers-invitation-to-princeton-seminary-students-to-come-to-texas
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# Daniel Baker’s Invitation to Princeton Seminary Students to Come to Texas

“Let it not be forgotten, that he who comes to this State must be no drone, nor speculator in lands. He must be a man of God, indeed; a man of intelligence and zeal; a man, like Barnabas, full of faith and the Holy Ghost; and, like Paul, ‘in labours more abundant.’ Come then, dear young brethren,” exclaims this venerable pioneer for Christ, who invited them into no path in which he had not trodden before himself — “come on the wings of love; come in the exercise of faith and prayer; come prepared to do the work of an Evangelist, and make full proof of your ministry. Come in this spirit, and you need fear nothing. I tell you plainly, we have no beds of roses here; but we have wide fields of usefulness. We have no California gold here; but we have many precious souls, which, as jewels, may be safely casketed for eternity.” — [**Daniel Baker**](/authors/daniel-baker), March 2, 1849 letter to Princeton seminary students, as found in [William M. Baker](/authors/william-munford-baker), *The Life and Labours of the Rev. Daniel Baker, D.D., Pastor and Evangelist* (1859), p. 411.