Apr 13, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Moore was born on December 8, 1821 in Ohio. At the age of twenty he was born again. Six years later he was ordained to the gospel ministry. He and his wife sailed for Burma and arrived there on this day in 1849. For five years the couple labored unceasingly...
Apr 6, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Calista Holman was born on this day in 1807 in Union, Connecticut. When she was sixteen she was saved by the grace of God, but shortly thereafter she contracted an illness which appeared to bringing her to the point of death. As a child of God, she asked for baptism...
Mar 30, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Metropolitan Tabernacle, usually called Spurgeon’s Tabernacle, was opened on March 18, 1861. Two weeks later, on this day, there was a Baptist fellowship meeting in the new building. In his greeting to the brethren, Spurgeon said, “We believe that the...
Mar 23, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Not long ago I talked about a man who led one congregation for more than four decades. Today I mention another – Joshua Hutson pastored the Pine Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia for more than 45 years. Joshua was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia to...
Mar 16, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Benjamin Watkins was born into a Virginia Episcopalian home in 1755. That was the year that Shubal Stearns and Daniel Marshall began preaching Baptist doctrine in Virginia and the Carolinas. Benjamin’s mother was left a widow when he was small, but despite family...
Mar 10, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Stillman was born in Philadelphia in 1737. At the age of eleven his family moved to South Carolina. There under the preaching of Oliver Hart, Samuel was converted to Christ. He became a student under Hart, and at the age of twenty-one, he began preaching the...
Mar 3, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
J. M. Pendleton was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia in 1811. He was named in honor of the then current President of the United States, James Madison. When J.M. was a baby his family moved to Kentucky. It was there that the Lord saved him and where he was...
Feb 23, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was on this day in 1770 that John Picket began his three month incarceration in the Fauquier County, Virginia, jail. Because only the Church of England was lawfully permitted in Virginia, Brother Picket did most of his preaching in the open air. On one occasion...
Feb 16, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
When it is God’s will, things can move very quickly. Adoniram Judson was an unsaved, unconverted man when he enrolled in Andover Theological Seminary. Later that year, in September 1808, he was born-again and his study of the Word of God took on a new nature. Five...
Feb 9, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
During the 19th Century, Czechoslovakia was a Roman Catholic nation, but there were small groups of Protestants holding secret meetings throughout the country. Into this environment, in 1846, Henry Novotny was born. While still a youth he visited a secret Protestant...
Feb 2, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
David Jones was, it is said, the first Baptist to become a chaplain to the American military. In 1776 he was appointed to serve Colonel St. Clair’s regiment and later was chaplain under Horatio Gates and Anthony Wayne; he also ministered to the troops at Valley Forge....
Jan 27, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1620 Lucy Apsley was born. Her birth took place in the Tower of London where her parents were – not imprisoned – but where her father, Sir Allen Apsley, was governor. Lucy’s parents were dedicated Presbyterians. She was raised in a godly home surrounded...
Jan 19, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hezekiah Smith was born in 1737 at Long Island, N.Y. Under the ministry of John Gano, he was born again, and following Gano’s example, he moved to Hopewell, N.J. in order to attend the Baptist Academy. After some time there he moved a few miles down the road to attend...
Jan 12, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was on this day in 1549 that Elizabeth was arrested as an Anabaptist. We don’t know her last name, but we do have records of the details of her trial before a council of Roman Catholics. Council: What do you think of the Mass? Elizabeth: I do not approve of your...
Jan 6, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
James Carroll was born into poverty on this day in 1852, while his parents were living in Arkansas, having moved there from North Carolina, via a stay in Mississippi. Almost all the wealth of the Carrolls was incorporated in the slaves which they owned, but with the...
