Claude D. Cole (1885-1968) is the 15th essay in A Noble Company, volume 11

. . .Cole was always in great demand to preach revivals and Bible conferences across the United States. In 1929, along with H. Boyce Taylor and Roy Beaman, he drove to southwest Texas to preach in two Bible Institutes. I. E. Gates, pastor of the First Baptist Church of San Antonio, was present at one of these Institutes and said Cole was the first man he’d ever heard preach on the doctrine of election in the state of Texas. While not everyone agreed with Cole’s interpretations of Scriptures, all recognized his abilities. Cole attended the 1950 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Chicago, Illinois, and preached for Pastor Roger Maslin at the East Maine Baptist Church in Des Plaines, Illinois. Maslin . . . considers Cole’s sermons at his church in 1950 to be the greatest preaching he’d ever heard in his life. --Ben Stratton