Nov 14, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Juliette Pattison was born in 1808. After the Lord saved her, she was baptized by her brother, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Providence, RI. While teaching in Charlestown he met her future husband, J. G. Binney. They married in 1833, and on this day ten...
Nov 4, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Cate was born in 1807 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. At the time, the religious condition of East Tennessee was said to be deplorable – overrun with lifeless paedobaptists. Nevertheless, here and there souls were saved by the grace of God, and among them...
Oct 31, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard Miller did nothing to become famous among God’s servants on this earth. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been rewarded in Glory for his sacrifice and service to the Lord. Richard M. Miller was born in Seveir County, Tennessee on this day in 1815. While a...
Oct 24, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Vavsor Powell was born into one of the leading families in North Wales. He was given an excellent education, graduating from Jesus College, Oxford. As an unsaved man he was ordained an Anglican minister. Then one day a Puritan found him breaking the Sabbath by...
Oct 17, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Adam Burwell Brown was born on this day (October 20) in 1821. He was raised in Virginia and first educated by the Episcopalians. It was expected that he would become a priest of that denomination, but upon studying the Word of God, he became a Baptist. He attended...
Oct 10, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Julius Kobner was the son of a Danish Jewish Rabbi. Following his training as an engraver he traveled from place to place plying his trade. While visiting in Hamburg, Germany he met the Baptist Johann Oncken when he came under conviction and was converted to Jesus...
Oct 3, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Grantham was saved by God’s grace at an early age and joined the Baptist church at Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Soon after he began serving the Lord, he became the object of Satan’s hatred. He was arrested and thrown into the Lincoln gaol. While there, as did...
Sep 26, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elisha Andrews was born on this day in 1768. The place was Middletown, Connecticut. At an early age he was born a second time and soon began to serve the Lord, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. In 1793 he became the pastor the Baptist church in Fairfax,...
Sep 19, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Fredrick Ludwig Rymker was born on this day in 1819 in Stige, Denmark. At the age of twenty he went to sea. On one occasion when his ship docked in New York harbor, he went ashore and stayed in a sailor’s lodging house which was sponsored by Christians. While there he...
Sep 12, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Slater immigrated from England, bringing with him the skills though which he had been earning a living. From memory he reproduced the cotton machinery he had been using. In this it is said that Samuel Slater founded the American cotton industry. In 1793 he...
Sep 6, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
When George Mason was contemplating the Virginia Declaration of Rights, he wrote, “No free government or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent...
Aug 29, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I use three primary sources for these vignettes, consulting with others for corroboration and background. For September 1, two of my books referred to the death of Sarah Boardman Judson. Sarah (nee Hall) was born in 1803. The Lord saved her soul, and she became a...
Aug 22, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Vermont has a unique Baptist history. It begins with the birth of Aaron Leland in Holliston, Massachusetts. He was born a second time and became a member of the Baptist church in Bellingham in 1785. Shortly after receiving a license by that church to preach the...
Aug 15, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1846, General Samuel Kearny took possession of New Mexico in the name of the United States of America. Soon after he raised the flag over Santa Fe, two Baptist missionaries, H.W. Read and Samuel Gorman, entered the new territory in the name of Christ...
Aug 8, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1829 the first Baptist church in the territory of Kansas was organized with David Lewis and his wife, and John Davis, a Creek Indian, and three black men – slaves of the Creeks. The group had traveled from Michigan with Pastor Isaac McCoy and his son-in-law...
