Apr 21, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1854 James Voller preached his first message as pastor of the Bathhurst Baptist Church in Sydney, Australia. It was only twenty-three years earlier that the first Baptist worship service was given to the Lord in that country. Something which made...
Apr 14, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
For several reasons, I rarely present anyone from the 20th century in these little histories. Today, I’m going to make an exception. Florence Almen had been serving in a Baptist mission in French Equatorial Africa. After a short furlough in America she bought passage...
Apr 7, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joshua Morse was born on this day in 1726 when his parents were living in the colony of Rhode Island. Even though his grandfather was a Baptist, his parents were not, and Joshua was not raised in the light of the Word of God. Nevertheless, at the age of sixteen he...
Mar 31, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Abraham Marshall was the son of Daniel and Martha. When he was just a baby, his parents began an effort to evangelize the Mohawk Indians in rural Connecticut, but when Shubal Sterns invited them to join him, they moved to Sandy Creek, North Carolina. While serving...
Mar 24, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The baby born on this date in 1828 was given the name of his father, Edward, a Baptist preacher who served the Lord in Virginia. When Edward was only eight years old, his missionary-minded father moved the family to Alabama. Eventually, the Lord saved the soul of...
Mar 17, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel L. Straughan was ordained to the ministry on this day in 1806. He was raised on a Virginia farm and had only two or three years of formal education. But it is said that “during his childhood, he exhibited a sobriety and manliness of character much beyond his...
Mar 10, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Before the establishment of the first permanent Baptist church in America, there was an attempt to organize a congregation just south of Boston. Six godly men, the principle leaders in the attempt, were arraigned before the General Court in Boston on this day in 1639....
Mar 4, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hezekiah Johnson was born in Maryland on this day in 1799. His Father was a Baptist preacher and the family moved to Ohio in 1816 to serve the Lord. Hezekiah professed faith in Christ when he was 26 and two years later he was ordained, moving to Iowa to plant a...
Feb 24, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Stillman was born on this day in 1737. The first eleven years of his life were spent in Philadelphia, after which he resided in Charleston, South Carolina. There he came under the gospel preaching of Oliver Hart. Still in his youth he saw himself as a sinner...
Feb 18, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Andrew Gifford was born into a home where his father and his father before him were both Baptist pastors; and both suffered for their faith, being persecuted and imprisoned. At an early age the testimony of his parents bore fruit, and Andrew trusted Christ as his...
Feb 11, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Benjamin Miller was born in 1715. As a child he and his family attended the Presbyterian church pastored by Gilbert Tennent. Under the peaching of the Protestants, Benjamin was born again. When Tennent encouraged young Miller to study for the ministry under the...
Feb 3, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard Major was born near Pennsbury, Pennsylvania on this day in 1722. His parents were Presbyterians, and under their teaching and the preaching of the Protestants, Richard periodically came under conviction as a sinner. To thwart the power of guilt, he would then...
Jan 28, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Tidence Lane was born the son of an ardent, Baptist-hating, Anglican in 1724. When the family moved from Maryland to North Carolina, Tidence came under the preaching of Shubal Stearns. In 1743, after the Lord saved his soul, the young man surrendered to preach the...
Jan 21, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
When I read that on this day in 1881 Charles Tupper died, my heart leaped just a bit, because as every educated Canadian knows, Charles Tupper was one of Canada’s “Fathers of Confederation,” serving as that country’s sixth Prime Minister. But when I saw that Prime...
Jan 14, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hezekiah Harman was born on this day in 1763 in Chatham county North Carolina. His father was the county sheriff, and young Hezekiah grew up very familiar with the firearms of his day. When he was seventeen years old he picked up his long gun and joined the state...
