Aug 13, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
We’ve often mentioned the persecution which the early Baptists faced in the Commonwealth of Virginia. By most accounts there were 43 Baptist ministers jailed there for preaching the gospel before religious freedom became common. Most of these jailed preachers were...
Aug 6, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1804 John Gano departed this life while at his home near Frankfort, Kentucky. He had spent his long life in the service of his Saviour, first as an itinerant preacher, then as the pastor of two of the most important churches in America at Philadelphia...
Jul 31, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The father of William Button was a faithful deacon at the church in Horsleydown which was pastored by John Gill. William was saved by God through that church and was baptized the same day as John Ryland, Jr, who later became a well-known Baptist preacher. William...
Jul 23, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In late 1681 William Screven was given authority by the Baptist church in Boston to attempt to build a church in Maine. Screven took his responsibility seriously, and the following year he asked that the Boston church oversee the organization of an autonomous church...
Jul 18, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was Christmas day in 1766, in a poor Welsh home, that a baby boy was born. His parents decided to name him Christmas. As a child, after the death of his father, Christmas Evans had no opportunity for an education. When he was fifteen he still could not read. But at...
Jul 9, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Algerius was born in Naples, Italy, into a Catholic family of wealth and privilege, so the young man was given a good education. Those were the days of the Protestant Reformation, so while in seminary, preparing for the priesthood, he and other students often talked...
Jul 3, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The account of the whipping of Obadiah Holmes is well-known to most Baptists. John Spur was a witness to the event. He testified that John Cotton was the Puritan preacher and prosecuting attorney in the case. Prior to the sentencing Cotton declared that “denying...
Jun 25, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Milo Jewett was born in 1808 into the family of a successful physician, and as a result, Milo received an excellent education. He graduated from Dartmouth after which he began a career as a lawyer, but it didn’t suit him so attended Andover Seminary, at which time he...
Jun 18, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Pleasant Bostick was the first of three sibblings to go to China as missionaries. Together they gave 110 years to the Lord, preaching the gospel. Their mother was, at first, apprehensive about their work, but later testified that she wished all fifteen of her...
Jun 11, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Daniel Fristoe was converted to Christ in 1755 and he was ordained sixteen years later. This was in northern Virginia. On the day of his ordination, June 14, 1771, John Young had been haled into the nearby Caroline County courthouse for preaching the free grace of...
Jun 9, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joseph Samuel Murrow was born on this day (June7) 1835 in the home of a Methodist preacher. At the age of 19 he was converted and united with Green Fork Baptist Church. Soon he was licensed to preach, and in 1855 he entered Mercer University. Two years later he was...
May 28, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Bryce was born of Scotish parents in Goochland County, Virginia on this day (May 31) in 1784. He was raised in the Episcopal Church, but at the age of 21 he came under conviction through the preaching of Andrew Broadus and upon his profession of faith united with...
May 21, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
King James II of England was a Roman Catholic, but his daughter Mary was not. Mary married a Dutch Protestant named William, and with the providential hand of God upon them, William and Mary became the rulers of England. It was called “the glorious revolution.” The...
May 14, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Charles Luther was born on this day in the year 1847. Even though he was raised in a godly home, he was not born again until his senior year at Brown University. Charles grew up with a love for journalism and for a time he worked on a newspaper in Springfield,...
May 7, 2020 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Alfred Bennett was born into a Christian home in Mansfield, Connecticut on September 26, 1780. Twenty years later he was born again and joined the Baptist church of that community. In 1802, after marrying the daughter of the church deacon, the couple moved to the...
