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...
Aug 3, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Eleazer Clay was born on this day (August 4) in 1744. After the French and Indian War he settled in Chesterfield County, Virginia where he married, settled down and began to prosper. But that changed somewhat when the Baptists arrived. Clay was drawn by the Holy...
Jul 25, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In Norway, before there were any Baptist churches, there was a growth of Baptist principles, including salvation by grace through faith, and as a result, the rejection of infant baptism. Strangely this religious insurgency took place among the disciplined soldiers of...
Jul 18, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
According to all that I have read, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), the famous patriot, scientist, printer and Post Master General, was a moral bankrupt for most of his life. Like many intellectuals in this day, at least as a young man, he may have professed to be a...
Jul 11, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In the case of John Taylor, missionary to Siam (Thailand), one of the key events to his “success” was the death of his wife. Taylor was raised a Congregationalist, becoming a Baptist while studying for the ministry. In 1828 he was baptized and joined the...
Jul 4, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There are no less than seven men with the last name of Wightman listed in Cathcart’s Encyclopedia. As I made a quick survey, I wasn’t surprised to see that they were all related – sons, grandsons, great-grandsons. When a family is so closely linked together in the...
Jun 27, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Sutcliff was a pupil of Caleb Evans at Bristol Baptist College. Sutcliff was a good student, but not a great orator, and after graduation and the beginning of his first pastorate, he became disheartened and wondered whether or not he should be in the ministry....
Jun 20, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Medley was born on this day in 1723. At age 16 he was an apprentice in the cloth trade when war broke out between England and France. He was permitted to leave his apprenticeship, if he agreed to serve on one of his majesty’s ships. With the thrill of the fight...
Jun 13, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Baynham was born into a wealthy Virginian, Episcopalian family. At the age of 21 he earned his degree, intending to practice medicine. Then during the summer of 1834, through the preaching of William Broaddus, he was converted to Christ. It is reported that...
Jun 6, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (June 9) in 1865 several members in good standing were released from three different churches in Charleston, SC in order to form the Morris Street Baptist Church. Their first pastor was Jacob Legare, who served the church for the next twenty years,...
May 30, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Two weeks ago our history involved Lewis Craig who led his church to move from Virginia to Kentucky, settling eventually at South Elkton. Today marks the anniversary of the ordination, in 1770, of his brother Elijah Craig. Elijah was born again in 1764 under the...
May 16, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1662 the “Act of Uniformity” received royal assent, after being passed by the Anglican-dominated British Parliament. It required that every minister in England had to receive episcopal ordination, and before August 24 of that year they must...
May 9, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
If there ever was ever a “Bible belt” in Canada it was in the Maritimes, but unfortunately it lasted for only a short time. I understand that there are former Baptist churches empty all over the eastern provinces today. One of the men of God working in the...
May 2, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Many religionists are content in gathering only two or three times a year. Some of the more faithful try to come together at least once every week. The true children of God, however, love their Lord enough to want to worship and learn of Him more frequently than once...
