Oct 31, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard M. Miller is not a name you’ll find in William Cathcart’s 1881 book, “The Baptist Encyclopedia.” Most likely, it is because he didn’t do anything to draw attention to himself. Brother Miller was born on this day in 1815 south of Knoxville, Tennessee, in Sevier...
Oct 24, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
History tells us that Thomas Goold was used of the Lord to establish the first Baptist church in Boston. It also says that Brother Goold died on this day in 1675. That little body of believers was persecuted by the colonial government and its officially-recognized...
Oct 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Ward was born on this day in 1769. In the spring of 1793, his cart got in front of his horse, so to speak. Ward, who was living in Derby at that time, had become a printer. One day William Carey providentially happened to come up beside the young man...
Oct 10, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
James Garnett was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1792, but when he was a child the family moved to Kentucky. It was there he was born again, during his nineteenth year, and there he was baptized. When the Bullettsburg Baptist Church recognized God’s spiritual...
Oct 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This is a somewhat backhanded piece of Baptist history, as you will see. Eugenio Kincaid was born into a Presbyterian home in Wetherfield, Connecticut, but in his youth the family moved to Pennsylvania. There, under the preaching of a Baptist evangelist, the young man...
Sep 19, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Fredrick Rymker was born in Stige, Denmark, on this day in 1819. He learned the trade of shoemaking, but at the age of twenty he went to sea. When an accident struck him down, he was fitted with a wooden leg, and from then on looked like the proverbial peg-leg...
Sep 12, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Slater immigrated to this country from England, bringing with him his work in two different fields of interest. From memory he reproduced the cotton machinery he used back home, and in so doing becoming the founder of the American cotton industry. In 1793 he...
Sep 5, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In the struggle for religious liberty in this country the following letter was submitted to the General Assembly of Connecticut: “To the Honourable Genl Assembly of ye Colony of Connecticut, to be convened at New Haven on ye second Thursday of October next. The humble...
Aug 29, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Sarah Hall was born in 1803. As a teenager she came under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and was born again. Soon she joined the First Baptist Church of Salem Massachusetts, and immediately became obsessed with the spiritual needs of others. Providentially...
Aug 22, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
From 1813 to 1815, Vermont was unique among American states, because both its governor and lieutenant governor were diligent and doctrinal Baptists. Aaron Leland was born in Massachusetts in 1761. The Lord saved his soul, and he became a member of the Baptist church...
Aug 15, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1846 the United States, under General Stephen Kearny, took possession of New Mexico. Almost immediately, H.W. Read and Samuel Gorman, Baptist missionaries, arrived in Santa Fe. Read had the joy of leading twenty-one-year old Blas Chavez to Christ, and...
Aug 8, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
he formal ministry of William Evander Penn didn’t begin until he was nearly fifty, but he had already been a dedicated servant of Christ for decades. William Penn, the Baptist not the Quaker, was born on this day in 1832 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. At the age...
Aug 2, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Webb Slaughter deserves a full-length biography. His life was filled with excitement and Christian service. I am not sure when he became a child of God, but it appears to have been early in his life. Having moved from Louisiana to Texas, he became one of Sam...
Jul 26, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Perhaps this is a day which should go down in infamy. History records that at least twice, some of our Baptist forefathers were arrested on this day prior to being punished for their faith. In 1768 four gospel preachers were arranged in Orange County, Virginia for...
Jul 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Now here is some history you did not hear while in school. Peter Foulger, at the age of eighteen crossed the Atlantic, settling in Massachusetts, where he became a teacher and land surveyor. The Lord eventually led the young man to Newport, Rhode Island, where he...
