Later one of the most prominent members of that early core of ministers and students who came together in Nashville, the Reverend C. T. Vivian, said that it was as if God had a master plan, bringing so many uncommon people of such rare strength and vision together in one place at one time. Jim Lawson thought that C.T. was right, that it was a coming together of rare, committed, talented people. But the word he used was different. It was providential, he said, a Methodist word which meant that God was working in people and through them to bring them together at a certain time so that certain
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