Another historian similarly says of Edwards: Scholarly, laborious, warm-hearted, eccentric, choleric Morgan Edwards, one of the most interesting of the early Baptist ministers of our country and one of those most deserving of honor. His very faults had a leaning toward virtues side, and in good works he was exceeded by none of his day, if indeed by any of any day … He was an able preacher and a good man, but not always an easy man to get on with.20 Baptist historian William Cathcart characterizes