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@SBCHistoryPictures and events from the 170+ year history of the SBC in particular and other notes of Baptist history as well. Tweets by @lukeholmes
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OTD in 1644 the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law against Baptists, calling them “incendiaries of commonwealths” and “troublers" of churches. Anyone who opposed the baptizing of infants was subject to banishment. Read more from Thomas Kidd buff.ly/40KX0Oa
OTD in 1660 John Bunyan was arrested as he was about to preach in Lower Samsell in England. Bunyan spent most of the next 12 years in jail, where he wrote many of his most famous works, including “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.”
OTD in 1880 EY Mullins was baptized. He was Pres. of @SBTS , the SBC, and Baptist World Alliance, & framer of 1925 BF&M buff.ly/3GSQx79
OTD 1812: Luther Rice was baptized a Baptist in Calcutta, India. He had been ordained by the Congregational church. En route to India he became convinced of believers' baptism. After baptism, he returned to the USA to raise money for other missionaries like Adoniram and Judson.
OTD in 1752 Elizabeth Backus, a widow and mother of Reverend Isaac Backus, was arrested and imprisoned for 2 weeks for failing to pay the church tax to the official state church. In 1728 an Act was passed exempting Baptists from the personal tax but not the property tax part.
OTD in 1882 @IMB_SBC missionaries ZC Taylor and William Bagby established the first Baptist church in Brazil in Salvador. Along with their families the other charter member was a former priest converted to believers baptism through reading the New Testament.
OTD in 1832 37 new converts were baptized @ Muscogee Baptist Church in OK. There were 10 Creek Indians and 27 African slaves. This was the first baptist church in Oklahoma/Indian Territory.
OTD in 1664, Benjamin Keach, editor of The Baptist Catechism of 1693 (often called Keach’s Catechism), was fined and sentenced to stand in the pillory for producing a children’s catechism that taught believers baptism. He was also a signer of the 1689 Baptist Confession.
OTD in 1917 the State of LA approved the legal charter for the Baptist Bible Institute, now known @NOBTS
OTD in 1907 Herschel Hobbs was born. The legendary statesman was the longtime pastor of FBC OKC, president of the SBC, and framer of the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message. Many listened to him as the pastor the Baptist Hour from 1958-76.
OTD in 1862 William Bullein Johnson died. He was the first president of the SBC, served as president of the Triennial Convention and is the only man to be at the founding of both Conventions. buff.ly/45XpeVo
OTD in 1792 the "Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen" was formed in Kettering, England. Their first offering totaled $65, and what later became the "Baptist Missionary Society" sent out Willam Carey to India.
OTD in 1682, FBC Charleston began as a Baptist church established in Kittery, Maine. William Screven and Isaac Hull helped plant this church under the guidance of FBC Boston. They relocated to South Carolina where they would reorganize into the first Baptist church in the South.
This week in 1749 the Philadelphia Baptist Association adopted a statement on the “power and duty” of an Association of churches. buff.ly/2VAe0r4
OTD in 1635: The Massachusetts General Court banishes Roger Williams, 32, for, among other things, his outspoken advocacy of a separation of church and state. Williams went on to found Rhode Island and the first Baptist church in the American colonies.
OTD in 1966 @SBTS elected the first woman to serve as a trustee in the history of the seminary. It also marked the 73rd year that someone from her family served the school as a trustee.
OTD in 1812 Adoniram and Ann Judson were baptized by William Ward in Calcutta after becoming convictional Baptists on their 4 month trip to India.
Oklahoma Indian Association meeting, 1931 Brush arbor fellowship feast, 1914
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