A History of Baptists in New Jersey (Classic Reprint)
A History of Baptists in New Jersey (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas S. Griffiths

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-17

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9781528280273

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Excerpt from A History of Baptists in New Jersey Light house men by whom courses have been laid in the crises of our denominational life. These, whether fragments or consecutive records, are not appreciated in the time of their happening, but later are invaluable. Since Morgan Edwards wrote his materials there has not been a historical record of Baptist affairs. Since the Acts of the Apostles, the history of Christianity has been an account of divers' teachings and of sects without number, indicating that Chris tianity later as at the first looses the shackles off of mind and con sciences; sets men to thinking, constituting them independent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A History of the Seventh Day Baptists
A History of the Seventh Day Baptists

Author: Corliss Fitz Randolph

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9781331865698

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Excerpt from A History of the Seventh Day Baptists: In Including the Woodbridgetown and Salemville Churches in Pennsylvania and the Shrewsbury Church in New Jersey This volume is the result of an invitation to prepare a historical paper relating to the Seventh Day Baptist South-Eastern Association, for the meeting held at Ashaway, Rhode Island, in August, 1902, in commemoration of the organisation of the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference one hundred years before. For four years, all the time which could be spared from a very busy life, has been devoted to its preparation. My first plan was to write a paper which I hoped could be completed in about two weeks. As soon as I began to examine what had been published relating to the subject, however, I found that I should be obliged to consult the original records. As a result, I soon altered my plans, and began the preparation of a more exhaustive treatise, designed to be a classified epitome of all existing records relating to Seventh Day Baptists in Western Virginia, including the Shrewsbury Church of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and the Woodbridgetown Church of Fayette County, Pennsylvaia, and the Salemville Church of Bedford County, Pennsylvania; in short, to supply the material needed for some future historian to write a narrative of these people in story form, occupying about two-fifths the space of this book. At one time I contemplated such a narrative as a suitable introduction to the present work, which long ago grew to proportions such as make that impracticable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"I Will Sing the Wondrous Story"

Author: David W. Music

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780865549487

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Baptists have a long and rich heritage of congregational song. The hymns Baptists have sung and the books from which they have sung them have been shaping forces for Baptist theology, worship, and piety. Baptist authors and composers have provided songs that have made an impact not only among Baptists in America but also across denominational and geographic lines. Congregational singing continues to be a key component of Baptist worship in the twenty-first century. Beginning with an overview of the British background, this book is a survey of the history of Baptist hymnody in America from Baptist beginnings in the New World to the present. Its intent is to help the reader better understand the background against which current Baptist congregational song practices operate. Unlike earlier writings on the subject, this book provides both comprehensive coverage and a continuous narrative. It gives thorough attention to the major Baptist bodies in America as well as calling attention to the contributions of significant smaller groups. The British Baptist background is dealt with in an introductory section. The book also includes many texts and tunes as illustrations of the topics being discussed and focuses on some of the contributions of Baptist authors and composers to the repertory of congregational song. Book jacket.

Wandering Souls
Wandering Souls

Author: S. Scott Rohrer

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0807895873

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Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three. In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration patterns of eight religious groups and finds that Protestant migrations consisted of two basic types. The most common type involved migrations motivated by religion, economics, and family, in which Puritans, Methodists, Moravians, and others headed to the frontier as individuals in search of religious and social fulfillment. The other type involved groups wanting to escape persecution (such as the Mormons) or to establish communities where they could practice their faith in peace (such as the Inspirationists). Rohrer concludes that the two migration types shared certain traits, despite the great variety of religious beliefs and experiences, and that "secular" values infused the behavior of nearly all Protestant migrants. Religion's role in transatlantic migrations is well known, but its importance to the famed mobility of Americans is far less understood. Wandering Souls demonstrates that Protestantism greatly influenced internal migration and the social and economic development of early America.