Dec 26, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Phillipp Bliss died on this day in 1876, at the young age of 38. His name was originally spelled with 3 p’s and 2 l‘s – “Phillipp, ” but he didn’t like the spelling so he chopped it down and chopped it apart to Philip P. Bliss. Eventually he was known simply as P.P....
Dec 19, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Andrew Tribble was one of the first Baptists in Virginia. He often declared that he was the fifty-third Baptist on the north side of the James River. Some of the people with whom he fellowshipped were Lewis and Elijah Craig, John Waller and James Childs. Bro. Tribble...
Dec 12, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Constantine was the Roman leader who united secular government to the “Christian” religion – a false and corrupted form of Christianity. From that day until the late 18th century, true Bible-believers have been oppressed and persecuted by both Catholics and their...
Dec 5, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Andrew Marshall was born a slave in South Carolina. His first “master” was John Houston, the colonial governor of Georgia. Even though he was promised freedom upon the death of Houston, the promise was not kept and he was sold, becoming the property of Judge Clay, who...
Nov 29, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Today’s history note once again deals with Missouri, but this time only in the eastern part of the state and somewhat earlier. John Mason Peck was born – and born again – in Connecticut, but the Lord laid the spiritual needs of the West, upon his heart. On this day...
Nov 21, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In the 1830’s Polk County, Missouri, was a part of the “Wild West” with small log cabins rarely less than five miles from each other. The people living in those cabins needed the Saviour as much as those living in the large cities. D.R. Murphy was born on this...
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...
