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Church-State Separation and the Constitution
Judge Thomas Cooley (2010-04-27)
Judge Thomas Cooley (d. 1898) was a law professor and a judge on the Michigan State Supreme Court for twenty years. His work on constitutional law had great influence. The followi...
North America Owes Its Religious Freedom to the Baptists
The Baptist Almanac, 1852 (2010-04-27)
The number of Baptists in this country, with their relative progress, and rapidly growing power, is one of the most singular facts of the age. As such it may challenge the attention of the philosop...
The Trial of John Bunyan: A Study in Conviction
First published in the March 1997 issue of The Baptist Vision
The Baptist Encyclopedia
William Cathcart (2010-04-27)
The American Baptists deny that they owe their origin to Roger Williams. The English Baptists will not grant that John Smyth or Thomas Helwysse was their founder. The Welsh Baptists strenuously contend that they received their creed in the first century, from those who obtained it, direct, from the apostles themselves. The Dutch Baptists trace their spiritual pedigree up to the same source. German Baptists maintained that they were older than the reformation, older than the corrupt hierarchy which it sought to reform. The Waldensian Baptists boasted an ancestry far older than Waldo, older than the most ancient of their predecessors in the Vales of Piedmont. All these maintain that it ultimately reappears, and reveals their source in Christ and His apostles.
An Open Letter to the Gentlemen Fundamentalists
Noel Smith (2010-04-27)
On Saturday, May 24, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, retired pastor of the Riverside Church of New York City, which was built under his direction and which he pastored from 1925 to 1946, observed his 80...
Reading The Bible Will Make You A Baptist
The Baptist Reporter, October, 1858 (2010-04-27)
To the Editor of the Baptist Reporter.Dear SirI am a young Baptist, and have only seen your Reporter for Jan., 1858. Having recently joined the body, I inquired for one of the publications pu...
Baptist Succession: Have Baptist Churches Been in Existence Since New Testament Times?
Various (2010-04-27)
Baptist history begins with Christ. Baptist churches had their beginning during the ministry of Jesus when He formed His church out of the material prepared by John the Baptist. ...
Baptist Letters from Prison
John Waller (2010-04-27)
We should be especially grateful to our Baptist forefathers who have left us the priceless legacy of religious liberty. This legacy came of great suffering and sacrifice. Baptists suffered much und...
A Baptist Fundamentalist View of the Scopes Monkey Trial
John Roach Straton (2010-04-27)
The following, written by John Roach Straton and published in his The American Fundamentalist, provided a concise statement of the fundamentalist view of the issues in the Dayton trial. Funda...
Baptists
C.H. Spurgeon (2010-04-17)
We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church o...
