Caleb Blood was born in Massachusetts in 1754. As a young man, while attending a dance, he came under great conviction for his sin. The voice of God seemed to say, “What doest thou here, Elijah?” Under the direction of the Holy Spirit Caleb repented before God and trusted in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. His conversion was so thorough and his thirst for the things of God was so complete that within eighteen months the Baptist church in Carlton, Massachusetts, sent him out as their itinerant preacher.
While preaching in Marlow, New Hampshire, the Lord blessed, and a little church was formed. It called for Brother Blood’s ordination and for four years served there as pastor. Over the next twenty years he pastored and traveled throughout New England and Canadian Maritimes as a revivalist. When the University of Vermont was founded in 1791, Caleb Blood was one of its trustees, until he left the state in 1807 to assume the pastorate of the Third Baptist Church in Boston. He died on this say in 1814, while pastoring the First Baptist Church in Portland, Maine.
Caleb Blood was a pastor, educator, evangelist and writer. His tracts and books exposed Universalism, Freemasonry, and pedobaptism, and others encouraged Christian young people and godly homes. In his day he was one of the leading Baptist ministers in New England. He died on this day two hundred and two years ago.