Dec 26, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
One of the missionaries working with William Carey was a physician named John Thomas. It was Thomas who won the first Hindu in India to Christ, after years of fruitless labors. A man, named Krishna Pal, fell and broke his arm, and Dr. Thomas was sent to set it. When...
Dec 11, 2025 | Lessons on Bible Trivia, This Sunday in Baptist History
Students of Baptist history have always found it interesting, if not confusing, that many early Welsh preachers had the same, or very similar, names. Abel Morgan seems to have been one such name, because it is applied to one Baptist preacher born in this country and...
Dec 5, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Moor Rice was a Baptist preacher for two short years. He was born in Kentucky on this day (December 7) in 1792 to a Baptist mother and a Presbyterian father. His dad was a farmer who also ran a still. After only ten months of formal education Thomas was put...
Nov 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There are many Baptists these days who seem to love the Reformers, even to the point of claiming a kind of kinship with them. I am afraid that many of them know neither the history of their own doctrines nor the practice of those Protestant Reformers. On this day in...
Nov 20, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1853, in Roman Catholic France, the account of an exhumation was published, stirring a variety of emotions. Close to the holiday residence of Napoleon III was a small village in which the well-to-do Andru family lived. A Baptist, J. B. Cretin had...
Nov 13, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Abraham Marshall, the son of Daniel Marshall, who was our subject a few weeks ago. On this day in 1786 he returned to his Georgia home after journeying by horseback to Connecticut to take care of some his deceased estate. Everywhere he stopped on that trip he tried...
Nov 6, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I recently read an article describing the moral decadence of the 17th and 18th centuries, and it surprised me. Christians today think that our society is the worst of all time, but that may not be an accurate perception. Through George Whitefield and Jonathan...
Oct 30, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Daniel Marshal is a name that Baptists ought to know or learn. He was a friend and relative of Shubal Sterns and a member for some time of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church in North Carolina. He was acquainted with John Gano. It was Marshal who carried the gospel into...
Oct 23, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Lewis Lunsford was born in Stafford County, Virginia in 1753. Early in his life, while listening to the preaching of William Fristoe, the Lord gave him faith to believe on Christ as his Lord and Saviour. After being baptized by Fristoe, the young man began to preach...
Oct 16, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Last week, I mentioned the 1803 Louisiana Purchase which greatly expanded the territory of the United States. The purchase was almost a gift from Napoleon who was afraid it was going to fall into the hands of the English. Iowa was a part of that purchase. In 1834...
Oct 9, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There are “foreign mission fields,” even on the North American Continent. Baptist churches, their preachers and missionaries are “foreign” to the Roman Catholics of Quebec even today, and this is somewhat true in Louisiana as well. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803...
Oct 2, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1772, Stephen Smith Nelson was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. At the age of fourteen he was converted to Christ – after which he became a member of the Baptist church in that city. At the time, the Middleboro Baptist Church was pastored by Isaac...
Sep 25, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1930 Charles Evans Hughes joined one of the Baptist churches in Washington, D.C., but sadly I’m not sure which. Much earlier, Charles had graduated from Brown University, the Baptist’s first school of higher learning in this country. He went on to...
Sep 19, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
As far as we know, the first Baptist church in Sweden was formed in Landa Parish, Halland, on this day in 1848. In the evening of that day four men and one woman were baptized in the waters of Vallervik Bay, and in a nearby farm house, the small church was organized....
Sep 4, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Knibb was born on this day in 1803. His father made no profession of faith, but his mother did, and she did her best to see that her children attended the Independent chapel in Kettering, England. It was there that the gospel seed was planted. Over time, it...
