Amzi Clarence Dixon (1854–1925). Born on July 6, 1854, in Shelby, North Carolina, to Thomas and Amanda McAfee Dixon, A.C. Dixon was a Baptist pastor, evangelist, and key figure in early American fundamentalism. The seventh of 13 children in a devout family, he converted at age 11 in 1865 during a revival and began preaching at 17. Educated at Wake Forest College (BA, 1875) and briefly at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 1876. Dixon pastored churches in North Carolina, Baltimore (Hanson Place Baptist, 1883–1890), and Brooklyn (Immanuel Baptist, 1890–1901), before serving as pastor of Ruggles Street Baptist Church in Boston (1901–1906), Moody Church in Chicago (1906–1911), and Metropolitan Tabernacle in London (1911–1919), succeeding Charles Spurgeon. His sermons, rooted in biblical inerrancy, drew thousands, emphasizing salvation and dispensationalism. A leader in the fundamentalist movement, he edited The Fundamentals (1910–1915), a 12-volume defense of orthodox Christianity, and authored books like Evangelism, Old and New (1905) and The Bright Side of Life (1897). Married to Susan Forde in 1876 until her death in 1919, he had three children; he wed Mary Field in 1920. Dixon died on June 14, 1925, in Baltimore, saying, “The Bible is God’s inspired Word, and we must proclaim it boldly.”