Jan 10, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
J.N. Hall was ordained to the gospel ministry on this day in 1872. Hall had a keen mind and eloquent manner of speech, enabling him to be greatly used of the Lord. While editing different Baptist journals throughout his life, he preached an average of a sermon a day....
Jan 3, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Mihaly (Michael) Kornya was born in 1844 in a Hungarian community whose name I cannot pronounce. He was granted a limited education because he was the son of a farmer. Eventually he became a share-copper and at the age of 22 married an 18 year old girl named Maria....
Dec 27, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Zacharius Morrell is our subject for today. J.M Carroll declared that to Morrell “is due as much, or more, than to any other man, the right beginning and right foundations of organized Baptist work in Texas.” Zacharius Morrell was born in South Carolina in...
Dec 21, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joost Joosten had a beautiful singing voice, and for that reason he was a part of the choir at the Roman Catholic church in his Netherlands hometown of Goes. When King Philip II visited the community, he heard the tenor voice of the boy and desired to take him from...
Dec 14, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This little historical note only touches on the edge of Baptist history, but it is still pertinent. During the 18th century the British were ruling the American colonies with an iron hand. They passed and enforced laws upon the colonies which adversely affected them....
Dec 6, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Noah Alden was a great-grandson of John Alden, one of the men who signed the Mayflower Compact. Noah was born into a Congregational home on May 30, 1725. While many of his peers trusted in their infant “baptism” for favor with God, at the age of sixteen,...
Nov 29, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Billington Sanders was born on this day in 1789. By the age of 9 he had lost both his parents, but he was then raised in another godly home in Appling Georgia, where he attended the Kiokee Baptist Church. After the Lord saved him, he was baptized by Abraham Marshall...
Nov 22, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1583 a book of hymns was published in Germany. Among them were several which had been written by Leonhart Schiemer. Schiemer spent six years of his life as a Fransciscan friar. When, by the grace of God, he came to see the false religion in which he was raised, he...
Nov 15, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Cathcart was born on this day in 1826. Despite his parents’ Scottish ancestry, his birth place was in Ireland. He was raised in Presbyterianism. He was converted to Christ at an early age, and at nineteen, when he was convinced of believer’s baptism, he was...
Nov 9, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (November 11) in 1790, Thomas Baldwin was installed as the pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston. Thomas was raised in Canaan, N.H. by his mother and step-father. He was given a good education which he hoped to use in the legal profession. He...
Nov 1, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Henry Novotny was born in 1846 in Czechoslovakia during a period when that country was thoroughly Roman Catholic. When he was still a youth, he attended a secret Protestant meeting and was so impressed that he began reading the forbidden Bible and other literature....
Oct 21, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (October 28) in 1856, Francis Wayland penned the preface to his work, “Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches,” in which he clearly enunciated the principles of religious freedom and the autonomy of the local church. He...
Oct 18, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Russia has never possessed the blessing of religious liberty. While periods of severe persecution have come and gone and come again, there has always been a hatred towards the gospel and Bible-believing people. Today, there are an unknown number of Russian Baptists...
Oct 11, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1774, while the First Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia, James Manning and Isaac Backus were granted permission to speak to the delegates from Massachusetts. Manning read an article entitled “An Appeal to the Public for Religious...
Oct 4, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
What is the likelihood that our service for Christ in this place might become a blessing to someone on the other side of the globe? And if it was, how would you feel, if no one even knew your name in regard to that service? There was a young Irishman, whose name...
