“WHEN PRINCIPLE WAS KING” – Table of contents and Prologue

Chapter 1: The Principle of Change … 52
Chapter 2: The Principle of Lengthening The Cords … 59 
Chapter 3: The Principle of Hero Worship … 64
Chapter 4: The Principle of Personal Influence … 73 
Chapter 5: The Principle of Personal Growth … 84 
Chapter 6: The Principle of Finishing … 99
Chapter 7: The Principle of Personal Soul Winning … 105 
Chapter 8: The Principle of Simplicity … 114
Chapter 9: The Principle of Loyalty … 123
Chapter 10: The Principle of Morality … 134
Chapter 11: The Principle of Justice … 141

Chapter 12: The Principles of Hyles-Anderson College ….. 149 
Chapter 13: The Principle of Independence … 161

Chapter 18: The Principle of The Church Budget … 230 
Chapter 19: The Principle of Church Ministries … 236 
Chapter 20: The Principle of Missions … 252
Chapter 21: The Principle of Church Discipline … 261 
Chapter 22: The Principle of Restoration … 267

Chapter 23: The Principle of Inclusivism … 274
Chapter 24: The Principle of Successorship … 278
Chapter 25: The Principle of The Image Driven Church … 297 
Chapter 26: The Principle of Big Crowds … 305
Chapter 27: The Principle of Church Growth … 315
Chapter 28: The Principle of Preaching … 325
Chapter 29: The Principle of Questions And Answers … 333 
Chapter 30: The Principle of The Influence Of Women … 339 
Chapter 31: The Principle of Modernism … 356
Chapter 32: The Principle of The King James Bible … 369 
Chapter 33: The Principle of Worship … 380

Addendum … 388
Epilogue … 394
Poem: Whose Faith Follow … 403

First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, was
founded in 1888. Little did Dr. Hyles know that his
ministry would grow into a great local church and
would develop into a nationwide and even worldwide
impact on Christianity.

• The church grew from a weekly attendance
  of 700 to 20,000.
  

• The church baptized 10,000 converts a year
  for his last five years as pastor.
  

• 4,000 soul winners a week
  

• The Spanish Ministry averaged 2,000 a
  

  Sunday.
  

• The church had the largest Deaf Ministry in
  

  the world.
  

• The church ran over 200 Sunday school
  

  bus routes a Sunday.
  

• The church started their own Rescue
  

  Mission.
  

• The church has the largest Educable Slow
  

  Ministry in the world.
  

• The church operated Hyles-Anderson
  

  College, with over 2,500 students, on an 88
  

  acre campus.
  

• Over 3,000 graduates from HAC
• The church operated Hammond Baptist Grade School, Junior High School, and Hammond Baptist High School on a 26 acre campus. The church operated Hammond City Baptist  High School for Chicago children.
• The church hosted an ANNUAL
  NATIONWIDE PASTORS’ SCHOOL the third
  week in March, with thousands of pastors attending. 
• The church hosted an ANNUAL NATIONWIDE YOUTH CONFERENCE averaging 7,000 teens a year. 
• The First Baptist Church, since August 1959, had grown to a membership of 100,000.
• Property values grew from $70,000 to $70,000,000.
• Dr. Hyles authored 46 books and pamphlets with sales over 14 million.