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Ne* York U609 USA ('if.' 482 - OJOO - Phone ('",) 288 - 5989 - Fox ♦ ♦♦/-!♦♦♦ v-.:^'^ Baptist Calendar f. •^ I # . s r XXtb Century. ^edjorxi^ •'ol.n5unw,n-.rir.sKlK,r.„Hon,e,, i>p.cw,n and opposition, the patient l-erseverence of a few s.iueie loiiowers of Jesus Christ her. ami there in citie, ke lor.mtc.. ()ttawa. Hamilton. Mr.mtford London an.l ation's fnr'n, '" ^"'"^^ ^'""nH'tition with rel.„Mous consideration and careiul preservation. "ki.iuoh In proof that such information is needed, ius* read the-^e hues, written bv the late Dr Fyfe- ir-itiuW Vr^'t''"''" "'''''■ ''•"■^''^; "^ "">■ ''"ention than the >,M luniiR up and preserving .,t the records of our denomi- nation throuKhont the Provinces. Thev are ret , ud 1 1.- I'HMnones of on,; fathers and .^ramllVther,:. wh " arc "v ar I'.v year, .one alter another. tinishinR their cnirsc ni d carrymp into the for^etfulness of the Rrave what thev ha e seen or heard of the goodness of God to the Bapti aim Iv r he Baptists were the first anti-Roman CathoJ m s i , : aries to Canada, as they were the first missionarie" tr. 1 .• "leathen. and it is to be repretted th-i tl .ir r i labors are .so little known." ' "'"' *''=*'' ■'"^' N'ow that Baptist churches are. in manv nr.n,.l,.„ centres, regarded by the public as a^'peSle. 'XvUed ---- .V,*?^'-i,j! ,.„ and ■■ intl'icntial " diiioininat- n. ari ilicy not apt, like many otluT •" religious pcopl. "' around tliVni lo fall into habits of nuTc formal chnrcli-^joinK and methodical, refined and ;esth.'ii<-! devotional performancy? If ne would retain the consecrated spirit and perpetuate the a^Kressive success of the nohle pioneers of the first Baptist evanpelization of Canada, and of those earnest, self-sacrificing uvrkliitudy the historical records and statistics of this little hook. Surely such facts and figures must he a mighty factor in stimulating us to do our work in our day. following in the footsteps of those who, through faith and nalience, now inherit the promises. Practical Christianity is earnest, wise, aggressive nn'ssion work. KROM «). C. .-;. WAI.I.ACE. M.A.. D.D., LL.D.. CHA.VCEI.LOR m'mASTKK r.NlVKRSITV. Mr. ]•:. ( ). White lias shown me the plan of his forlh- commg 'Twentieth Century P.aptist Calendar." and I have pleasure in speaking in its praise. Mr. White i? an his- torian by nature and practice: a lover of Baptists and statistics: a painstaking, indefatigable gatherer of infor- mation relating to the progress of our churches in all lands and ages: and I have no doubt that his "Calendar" will be i)f great value for reference. I-HDM A. 11. XKWMAX. 11. D.. T.I..n. Having looked over, in a general wav. the materials g^ithered by my friend, .Mr. E. (). White, for his -'Baptist Calendar," I am hapjiy to be able to say that the scheme seems to m,- to be a good f)ne. and the execution of the scheme, a ta^k involving much painstaking labor, to be highly creditable to the author. From this little work, which it is the intention of the author to circulate widely throughout our churches at a reasonable price, our young people can learn imich that is useful regarding the p.ist history of our ])rinci])les and of our denominational organi- zations, while the older and better informed will find in it inuch condensed and tabulated information that will prove interesting and instructive. While I have not scrutinized the materials in so critical a wav as to be willing to com- mit myscl) to the accuracy of all the details, the work seems to me to have been carefully prepared, and I do not iiesitate to coiimieiid it to our Baptist people. IKOM D. M. UKLTOX. I'lI.D.. U.U. I have looked over tlie very valuable material which Mr. White proposes to use in the preparation of his Baptist Calendar, and have to say that in its collection and col- lation, he has performed an important service. By the publication of this Calendar he will merit the thanks of the Christian public in general, and of the Baptist public in particular. Saying nothing of its condensed historical testimony in favor of Xew Testament teaching as inter- preted by the Baptist people, great value nmst be conceded to it for rescuing from a threatening oblivion the history of many of the oldest Baptist churches in the Dominion. FRO.M CALVIN GOODSPEED. M..\.. D.I). I have examined with much interest the outline of a proposed Baptist Calendar by Bro. E. O. White. He is embodying in it the pith of wide reading in the history of our denomination. It will contain valuable information respecting the chief events and the chief men of our people in the past. Its statistical tables are to be full and varied. The condensed statements of Baptist principles, belief and practice are quite complete: especial care is taken to give the most interesting facts respecting the history of the Baptists of Canada. I know of no work which gives in such small compass so much valuable information about our denomination in the past and present as this promises to do. I can heartilv commend it. FROM J. H. FAR.MER, B.A., LL.D. It has been my privilege to examine with some care the advance sheets of Mr. E. O. White's "Baptist Calendar and Remembrancer." Many of us are aware that Bro. White has a sort of loving genius for that sort of work. This Calendar is the result of long and careful culling and of intelligent and elaborate compilation. It is especially valuable, and should be intensely interesting to all classes of Canadian Baptists, for here arc noted our beginnings and the leading events in our history both East and West. .■\t the same time, the numerous historical and statistical tables should commend it to a much wider circle of readers. For here, in brief compass, is packed together a vast mass of material, valuable for reference, replete with suggestive information and exceedingly helpful and instruc- tive. I commend it to our people most heartilv. FROM WILLIAM STLWAKT, M.A., D.D. It has been my privilege to read carefully, and in part revise, the very niteresting Baptist Calendar prepared by fsro. li. O. White. With a special genius for collecting tacts and statistics about Baptists, Bro. White has com- piled a most useful and valuable denominational Calendar and Kemembrancer. i know of no publication that ccju- tains in so small a compass such a large amount of im- portant historical and biographical information. It should be in the possession of every Baptist who desires to keep in remembrance something of what our fathers have done and suffered lor their principles. KKOM LLMOKK HARRIS, U.A., D.I). Tlie thouglit of a • Baptist Calendar and Remem- Urancer is an exceedingly liapi)y one. Mr. White will place us all under a debt of gratitude by putting in a suc- cinct torin a woiuleriully rich array of facts from Baptist instory. 1 am hoping that this effort will be generally appreciated by our people. .\s a rule, our voung people especial y need to know more about these records of the past. We have no reason to feel ashamed of the conflicts and trials as well as the succes.ses of those champions of he laith delivered once lor all unto the communion to winch we belong. i ! KROM RKV. C. A. KATOX. M.A,. I>.I). .uJ '''Y'^ '•^'^'■^^■•l "vcr the manuscript of a "Baptist Calen- dar and Remembrancer, compiled bv Mr E O White- am while I am not in a position to pass upon the accuracy ot the immense number ot facts collated, the work seems to me to be one ot great value. History in itself, if not the noblest, is one ot the n<.I)]est of studies. The intelli- gent understanding of the present is impossible without knowledge of the past, and the records of history steady our thinking, help us to pronounce sane iudgmcnt" upon events and facts, and by showing a steady growth of S c.p es and -nstitutions. inspire us to nobler endeavor ' Mr. unite in this Remembrancer' has presented in concise diliT" Xr^ ^o"f,^T>"S Baptist history, universal and Cana- of^h/ tn 1 '■'■ "■"' ' P"''"'' ."^'"^ ''"' i"l'Tmation. It ought to have a very large circulation. It gives me pleasure to recommend the work, 10 ."^ I-I 867. 55.-1 818. »-T 878. 4-1 043. a_i 527- «-i 752- 1-1 539 H-i 845. »-i 872. 10- 1644 II- 1G45 1'^- •793 IX- 1551 14- 1678 l.%- I56r l«- 1854 n- 1818 IH— 1641 l»- 1 66 1 550- 1723 •il- 1672 •i^- 1854 •^»- KS39 •i4- 1827 ?{.■»- 1G61 m iSoo. r^i- 1878 •^H- [Sor •^1>- 1876 ao- 1834. :{|- 1892 JANUARY. The Church at Ongole, India, formed with 8 members Harriet E. Bishop, Vermont, bap'd in Lake Champlain, first Bap. tist teacher, in St. Paul. Minn , July 13, 1847. Mr. and Mrs John McLaurin, arrived at Cocanada, India. John Toombes, H.D., Oxford University, "divulged scruples " on infant baptism. Mantz, a Swiss baptist martyr, drowned at Zurich. Robert Hall baptized. Author of " Helps to Zion's Travellers " Fifteen Ana-Baptist women, martyrs, beheaded in Holland. Thirty colored man and women baptized in Toronto Bay, John St. A mem. of Roger Williams placed in Nat. Capitol, Wash., U.S. Dr. D. Featley said that London Baptists " dipped in rivers." Hansard KnoUys, commanded by " (Jueen's Court 'to " preach no more." John Price Crozer, born at Springfield, I'a. " A Princely Giver." George Von Parr, martyr, burnt at Smithfield, Eng. John Russell "Teaching Elder" of the Ana-Bap., Boston, Mass. Menno Simon, died at Odesloe, Holland, aged 56 The Lord's supper first celebrated at Tounga, Burmah. Mung Dwah and Mah Lah, baptized by Judson in Burvnah. Eighty Ana-Baptists arrested at meetinghouse, Southwark,Lon. Pastor Venner hanged at his church door in the city of London. " The Baptist Board " founded in London, England John Bunyan called to the pastorate at Bedford. Eugene Kincaid held his first ch. service in Burmah. D. McPhail, Pastor, Osgoode, ordained. John A. Broadus, D D., born at Colpepper, Va. Baptists in Kent, Kng. , "great suffering in Maidstone Jail. " J. C Oncken, the "Apostle of Germany, " born at Itarel. Missionary Currie, commenced the Tuni Mission, India. Daniel Collier, ".\ China-man." baptized by Dr. Rippon, London James Cotton Yule, ^LA. . diad at Woodstock, Ont. Judson completed the New Testament in the Burmese language C. H. Spurgeon died at Mentone, Italy. Age 56. M I?* ft I- •> 4- «- I- 8- »- 10- II- V4- !»- 14- IS- l«- ir- 18- l»- •iO- •41- •4*4- •43- •41- •45 •4«- •41- •48- •4»- -1873 -1683, -1529. -1812 -1669. -1630. -iSoi. -1863. -1S76. — 1S05, -1892. -1831. -1879. -1801. -1684. -1885. -1683. -1885. -1812. -1831. -1645. -1644. -1691. -1527. -1676. -1802. .1813. -1683. .1640. FEBRUARY. John Harvard Castle, DD., pastor Bond St. Church Toronto. Pastor John Myles, died at Swansea, Mass., "greatly beloved.' Pastor L. Hetzer, martyr, beheaded at Constance, Switzerland Ann Hasseltine wedded to A. Judson, Missionary to Burma! Edward Drinker met Baptist brethren at Elder. Goolds hous after a long imprisonment Roger Williams, "apostle of Soul F"reedom, ' landed in Americi Bengali New Testament published by William Carey. The first Garo converts baptized in Assam. Cocanada Baptist Mission House occupied by the missionaries W. C. Crocker born. Missionary to Liberia, Africa. Died 184, C. H. Spurgeon, buried in Norwood Cemetery, London, Eng. G. D. Boardman, died in »he presence of fifty baptized Kareni Rangoon Baptist College, Burmah, dedicated. William Careys son, Felix, begins miss, work in India. Age i « Pastor Bampfield, died in Newgate Jail, London. The Charter of Incorporation of the Chicago Theological Sen: Francis Bampfield. arrest, while preaching in Prince's Hall, Lor Missionary A. V, Timpany died of cholera in India. Judson sailed from Salem, Mass., missionary to India. Robert Hall died, age 67. " An illustrious preacher. " [Lon. Dr. Featley's book "The Dippers Dipt." dated from prison ir Anti-Christ Unmasked, " by Pastor Denne, dated from prison.' Ebenezer Chandler, first introduced baby sprinkling into Bun yan Ch. Bedford. Michael Sattler issued a Baptist " Confession of Faith." The first entry in the Ch. Book of the Bap. Ch. . Amersham. Eng, Dr. Stillman, Boston, Mass., proposed "A Bap. Miss. Society.' The Colby University, " charter granted for incorporation." John Griffiths arrested at meeting house, sent to Newgate Jail. Benjamin Keach, born at Stokehaven, London. 1- 1849. 1686. :{- 1847. 4- -1647. .%- .1678. «- .1842. 7 .1804. H- .1638. »- .1840. 10- -1528. II- -1796. 1*^- -1812. i:{ -1639. 14- -1873. I.V -1773- i«- -1641. 11- -1639 IH- _i8oo. l»- -1807. m- -1531- •ii- -1803. •4*^ -1525 •^:v -1638. •44- -1738. •45- -1833- •4« -1549- •41- -1807. •^H- -1842. 'i9- -1665. :jo- _i868. :u- _i86i. MARCH. The first Baptist Missionary arrived in California, U.S. William Kiffin. opened a new meeting house in London. Dr. Mason died, age 75. Missionary in liurmah 44 years. English Parliament issued " Declaration in favor of Baptists " Boston Court sent John Russell to jail for joining Anabaptists. A church organized at Tuscarora, Ont., for Indians. Josepii Hu,4hes, Secretary to the B. & F. Bible Society, London. John Clark s'g'd cont't at Boston. Mass., for "Religious Liberty." Van Housen, Am. Missionary, reached Nellore, India. Belthazar Hubmeyer, burnt in Austria. " The peer of Luther." Francis VVayland born in New York City, '"a profound scholar." The Missionary Printing House, India, burned. Loss $60,000. John Smith fined ;f20 for preaching at Boston. Mass. A Telugu Convert walked 50 miles to the Mission to be baptized. Theodore Seth Harding born. " A founder of Baptists in N. S." Roger Williams issued first " declaration ofuemocracy in Amer." Roger Williams was "dipped " by Ezekiel Holliman. The first proof sheet of Careys New Testament in Bengali. George Clinton Chandler. D.D., born. The first President of the Oregon Baptist College. [dipped. Sicke Freerks, martyr, beheaded at Leeuwarden •' for being Thos. Ford Caldicott, Pastor Bond St. Church. Tor., born in Eng. Uliman baptized by Grebel in the River Rhine. John Clark. Baptist Pastor obtained a deed from the Indians R.I. John Callender preached the Centenary Sermon of ist Baptist. Ch., Newport R. I. John Taylor Jones, Missionary, arrived at Bankok. Siam. Elizabeth, Martyr, drowned in a sack at Leeuwarden. Rev. Cyrus Barker, born at Portsmouth, Missionary to Assam. Judge Jesse L. Holman, died. President of Indiana State Con. The ist Rec'rd in the Ch. Book of ist Bap. Ch., Boston, Mass. Madam Feller, founder of Grande Eigne Mission, died age 68. C. H. Spurgeon's Tabernacle opened, Southwark, London, Eng. li ' 1 •4 » 4 1 « i a 7 * H » 10 II i-r i:t i' 14 l."5_ H{ U- IH- l»- •40- •41- •4'4- •44- •40 •4; '48- •i!» »0- *N"OTl APRIL — 187s General fohn Davis died age 90 •• He esmr^.H r t iHr^ M I .. -B'^ y". "e escorted Lafayette. •■ -i«oo Madame Henrietta Feller, born in Switzerland '515. A congregation of Ana-Haptists arrested, at Aldga.e. London --'87r. ^^omensHap. Miss. Society organized at Boston Mass -.795. S.r Henry Havelock. born at Bishop Uearmouth, Kng -r83,S. Ko-Hah.Byer baptized. -. The Karen f^aptist Pastor • ~8?;' iTr 'TT '^"' '" ''^^^ '"^ "^^'"^'"« ^° ^^P'- child.- --8r . Kev. K Chambers born. ■• Baptist Apostle of Florida • "Z: X T T: ''"^""'" '^'^" ''^ ^'*^^^°" ^' ^-•°> • ^--h. Ix ■ Fd r'd U^ r- '"'" '" ^^"'^^"' " -P°- 548 Ch. members.- ; • ''"''■■' '"^"' *" ^^"«- ^-denying In bap • - dson -v^postle of Burmah- died. Buried in the Indianocean. ~ ^^^J;-f;-'ec.aresWic.lifie a heretic for -denyin. Infant 2 h::'T' TtT' 'r t'^-' ^^ '^"-^- -^ ^-^ — i8au Mi.- f ■"• ' °' '^'^"•■«'^- '^°- '" »'-kens. S. C. -:84y. M.ss.onar.es Day and Jewett sailed from N.V for Madras India -X800. The first Bap. Chnrcb at Savannah. Oa,. dedicated ' ' , The Mission among the Karens, commenced near Tavoy - o,. cohston H. Hinton. born. Missionary to Burmah. r>L r,e, -r.r.8. oshua Marshman.Mi.ss'y to India, born at Westbury. Eng -i8ro Lbenezer Dodge. D.D.. L L.n.. born at Salem, Mas. -X 34. Seven persons baptised at night, in the River at Hamburg, (^er " ! : TJ ■"'^"'''' ''''''• ^'^"'^^""^ °f ^^"^- b-" i" Toronto.' -I4S.. Believers at Strasburg. '.rejected Infant baptism " -1052. K.chard Saltonstall, rebuked Cotton and Wilson for -persecut ing the Baptists in Mass " persecut- -X837. Bible l^aptist Convenuon, Phil., Pa.. 3,0 delegates present ^54 C. H. Spurgeon. accepted a call to the Park Lane Cb., London s' T ;""^^°\;'^'^^''"- ''^'^' P--r. -e-ecl by soldiers and jailed.^ •> 4 <; 10 II I* i:t 14 ir» Hi n IS i» ay it •Hi •44- •i."» •4« •41 •iS- 'HK 'MK III MAY. 1658. John Bunyan arrested for preachiug. 1550. plan Boucher burnt at the stake, Smithfield, London. -1S50. C. H. Spurgeon, baptized in the Kiver Lark. Age 16. ,iS53 The Baptist Historical Society, formed at Philadelphia, I'a. 1827 Mohing Ting, a convert in Burmah, begins to preach the Gospel -1700. The Welsh Associafn of Bap. churches assembled at Llanwenark -1S15. Andrew Tuller died, age 61. " A Christian nobleman." -1875. John Bates, father of Mrs. Timpany and Mrs. McLaurin, died at St. George, Ont. Women's Bap. Miss. Soc. of the west, organized at Chicago, 111. First Church of the Baptist Mission in France, organized. Convention held in New York ; organized the Am Bible Society. Hon. William Viers Bonie, born at Ldmunds Ferry, Md. Dr. Some says, " There are several Anabap. conventions in Lon. John Leyland born. " The Apostle of Virginia " Baptist Church of fifty-six members formed at Philadelphia, Pa. The ist sheet of the Bengali New Testament, translated by Carey The first Baptist Missionary to Australia, sailed from England. "The Bap. general Convention on F. M.," formed at Phila., Pa . Roger Williams " provided for the religious liberty of .■►-- 1549. *ii;^ I57«- 'i7 !8ia 'iH- 1746. •4»- 1803. ;io- 1834. JUNE . KiKht members, formed a Hap Church at Ongole. India. Major General and c;eneral at sea, Richard Dean, killed in Ker . Andrew Wyke sent to jail at Hoswick, Kng., for preaching. . Franklin College, organized at Indianapolis, Ind. Christmas Evans died age 74. -The Prince of Welsh preachers . Midi baptizeii. The first Baptist convert in Assam. Bunyan Church, Bedford, "consented to singing hymns ; Lord's 1 )ay service. " Squire Boone, a pioneer Baptist, "explorer first saw Kentucky. William Carey died. " The Apostle of India. ' ' . Edict published at Brussels " Dfath by Fire to all Baptists.- Lollards on trial declare " Infants are saved without baptism. , Paul Hobson founded a Baptist Chuich at Dartmouth. Eng. Missionary Bronson, baptized many converts a in Assam. ist Con. of the Swedish Bap. Churches at Stockholm, Sweder Gov. Joseph Jenckes died. ( 7 ft. 2 in. in height. ) Si.x converts baptized in Tokio, Japan. •Missionaries Judson and Nowell reached India. William Lantry. Martyr, burnt at the stake. The first "heretic- burnt in England. C. H. Spurgeon, born at Kelveden, Essex, Eng. Krishna Pal built the first Baptist Meeting House in India. Missionary Lord arrived at Migpo to preach in China. Hendrich Terwoort, burnt at the stake, Smithfield, London. Pastor Denne, baptized belivers in the River at Spalding. Synod of i:xeter, Eng.. decree " Baptism is immersion." Bishop Hooper, complained to Bullinger of " the great number of .\na- Baptists in England." Leonard Douwens, Ana-Baptist in Holland, published a list of 10,000 persons he had baptized. Mnung \an, Judson's first convert in Durmah, bapti.-!ed. Hon. Asa. Fletcher, born at Westport, Mass. A. J. Gordon. D. D., became Pastor of Jamaica Plains. Mass. Fourteen Baptist Missionaries sailed from U. S. for Burmab. l\. I_I 848. •> I 'ii?- » I 801. 4 I mo. 5-1 860 <» I S49. :_-! 625. H^i 6O3. »-. 820. 10- [839. II- i655. 1-4- 1555- i:t- 1813. 14- 1868. l.%- '575- l«- 1651. n- 1S20. IS 1704. i»- 1784. •40- 1812. •II 1838. •^•i- 16S7. •i:{- 1727. •14- 1688. •>."i^ 1796. •4«- 1660 •l; 1S47. •18- 1791. •>0- iSoo. no- 1771. :n- 1651. JULY. Thomas Armitage, DD.LLD.. pastor Norfolk St. ch.. New York. First Baptist church formed in Bankok. Burmah. Jokol converted to Christ by the Hindu convert, Krishni Fal Woodstock Literary Institute opened by Ontario Baptists Dr. Fyfe and Rev. VVm. Stewart, B.A., opened classes in C.L.I. First Bap. Ch., San Francisco. Cal., organized with 6 members Roger Williams matric Ited at F'embroke Coll . Cambridge. Kng. The Royal Charter of R. L granted "Full liberty in Religion Noah Davis "licensed to preach the Gospel in Maryland." Deacon Beam offered /looo, to erect a ch. at Beamsville, Ont. William Kifilin arr t'd in London for "deny'g baptism to Infants " Humphrey Middleton, Ana-Bap. martyr, burnt at Canterbury. Judson arrived at Rangoon, missionary to Burmah. The first Baptist in Finland ; immersed in the Baltic Sea. Queen Elizabeth signed a warrant Ana-baptists to be burnt John Clark and Obadiah Holmes, arrested at Lynn, Mass , for preaching The first female convert in Burmah, Nal Menla, baptized. Benjamin Keach died, age 64. "A grand old Baptist." Dr. Andrew Gifford died. Librarian to the British Museum Miles Bronson, DD , born in Norway, N. Y., miss, to Assam. Christmas Evans died at Swansea, Wales, aged 72 William Kiffiti and Hansard Knollys convene Baptists in Lo-don. John Gano. born in Hf-pewell. N.J " Family of French origin. " John Banyan preached his last sermon. Text John i : 3 John M. Cramp, D.D , t )rn in Lng., Pres't of .\cadia Col., N S. . Baptists in prison in Lincolnshire, petition thekinr, Charles II Chief Justice, Job Durfeedied. "A member of the US Congress." James Manning, DD., died. Pres't Nassau College, Princeton . William Gadsby, ordained at Desford, Eng. King George III, "disallowed the persecution of Baptists." . Clark Holmes and Crandell " fined fifty pounds," in Mass.. by the Independents. •4 I- \ S- 10 II i:\ 14 I.V !«- ir- is- i»- •^1- Ti- •i» 44 •4S- •4J> :{0- :n- '7«7. I8,S5 iS8i. -I, So J -i69r,. If")29. ■I777. 1S22, 17S8. -17H5 -1849 .1S73, AUGUST. -IS7.J, -I56I. -I7S5. .1761. rS28. 1874. — 1766. —1778. — lCf)2. -1844, -1795 -i66g -1538. — 1858. -17C6. -1826. -ir.7, -1688. William Carey, orda.ned pas.or of Baptist Cb.. MouUon Fn.. M'ss.onaryJ.Kstillwell. arrived in India IVincipal 7 orrance. Woodstcck Literary Institute, died Hon. Geo. Arnold Hrayton L L.D.. born at Warwick li , Samuel Taverner. Gov. I ,eal Castle, died, age 76 Salem Ch., .Mass.. organized. Roger Williams was an KIder Squ.re l^oone married the first white couple in Kentucky i: s 'astor A C. Hronson. a ■successful Evang.' in Mass. and Conn Adoniram Judson. born at Maiden. Mass. William Carey •• licensed to preach the Gospel " Hon. and Rev. Haptist Noel, the ()ueen's Chaplain, immersed A. \. Tympany. Missionary at Ramapatam. India 40 Bap. of Glengarry, defended Cornwall. Ont.. against rebels The Second Tremont Temple, Boston. Mass. . burnt Six Anabaptists of Antwerp. Martyrs, burnt at Brabant ■' XSlSSn'°°' '°'='^'^" ^°™^^ - ''-^-- ^n«- . by FO.X. William Carey. "Cobbler," born at Paulerspury Fng George Dana noardman, born in Tavoy, liurmab Irancis Wayland died. •• A profound thinker." . I-irst Association of Haptist Churches, Virginia Hon. John H. Cotton, born at Middleton, Conn . Iwenty-six I lap. Pastors -ejected by the Kings orders." Alex C.rson.LL.I).,died. " A grand author." nr. Samuel Stennett. died age 68. Writer of Hymns John Whipple writes "Roger Williamsstood square with Christ " one hundred ^orins paid for the arrest of Griesinger. Ana-bap New I>aj,tist c:hapel opened. Warren R.I AssTnof Bap. Churches organized by I,r. .Manning. y^oTg mt'"'"' "" • "'''' ^"- 7.. " A successful winner of "^"i gSSs. " '''^'^ '" ''""" '^^^"'•^ ^^>'"-- '■«"". The errors John Bunyan died at Snowhill. Lond. Buried in Bunhill Fields. l\. x-zfj SEPTEMBER. •* "'?5 :i -17117, 4 "'''! 7t IS^S 4> 1S12 ; i'>5i H 1S59 !»- -■7^'7. 10 i».6.4 ^^l^:^'bM^ Philanthropist,' born A .ember of Dr Banishment of Roger Williams from Salem, Mass. Benjamin Beddome died Hymn writer I'astor Henry Jessey d.ed ■■ A friend of John Bunyan ■ Jacob Falk, martyr, drowned at Zurich, in the river Limaret Adoniram Judson and wife baptized at Calcutta. India Dr Clark, pastorNeuport Ch . k. I,, "whipped thirty Stripes • Baptist Church formed at Yokohama, Japan President Manning assembled the churches at Warren K I to form an Association -ncn. i\ 1 , '"'Teirl Friend'""' """^ ""^ N°"i"Rham Castle, died. •■ Crom- 1 1 -.538 1* ""'.53 i:( -I 8,2, 14 -1841. i:* -1800. u\ -175S. 1; --:644. IH 1428 111 I '191 •40 1S13. •41 -1C55 '11 -1643 T.l IS 13 u 18C2. •> T ».► -1742. •e« -'«53 •4; -1 840 'is 1822 iW -1819 :to -1685, Three women, martyrs, strangled at the Hague. Holland Particular Bapts, called Past. Spilsbury to Wapping Ch,, Lond Jno. M Cramp. DD. baptized. A Baptist historian. Nova Scotia Albert \ Arnold. American missionary to Greece, sailed. Pastor Esterbrooks. ordained over the Wat - Church. N S. Bernard Foskett, died at Bristol, Kng. Age Roger W illiams, landed at boston. Mass.after a visit to Fngland '''StbapiL'"' °''"^' ""'^"' '"■•"' ^'■- ^- ^->-g Hansard KnoUys died, aged 93. •• A grand old Baptist " Judson and wife celebrated the Lord's Supper, alone, at Rangoon John Giflbrd. Banyans " Evangelist," died at Bedford, Eng John Tombes fled from l^ristol, to escape persecution J. H. Votie. D.D.. born at Oneida Co . N V The first Burmese Church, organised. Philadelphia Convention adopt d a - Confession of Faith.' Reuben Crandell died, age S6 Buried near Aylmer. Ont' The first convert of the Telugus baptized by Missionary Day. The first Baptist Church instituted in the city of Indianapolis Geo. Whitfield Sanson. DD.. born at Harvard. Mass. Benjamin Hewliu. >on of Wm, Riffin. martyred at Taunton i 9 10 II li lit :4 i.v lo n IS i» r>i *i4 1702. ■'799 -17S3. -1653 - 1 601J. -I fill.}. -1519. -16S9 -1 762. -l.*-'73 -1828. _iS73. -1867. -1866. -16C1. -18 16. -1825. -1561. -1685. -1872. -1S07. -1772. -1799- -1872. -1663. -1827. .1847. OCTOBER. KiriK Henry Vlll.orciertd Cranmt-r "to hunt the Anabaptist Haptist I". M. Socioty formed at Kettering, Knuiand. The firsi Hap. Church in Alabama, organi/ed at l-lint River Hercules Collins, died Huried in Hunhill Fields, London Marshman and Ward, Missionaries, reached India. Dr. John Kyland, baptized William Carey in the River Nen Western .\! s t n of Hap Churches first meeting at Wells, Kn John ClarU, M I>., born in Suffolk, Kng. "The fathe .\merican Haptists. " Henjamin Keach ransomed from jail by Wm. Kitfin. Letter of Krasmus r< the principles of Hohemian Anabaptis "A Cicneral I'ast' proclaimed in all Baptist churches in En^li The Mother .\ssociat n of American Baptists, held atPhila., Maj.-Gen. Harrison, Martyr, "drawn on a hurdle to the gibb C. H. Spurgeon's 1 raining College opened. Abel Bingham commenced a Mission for the Ojibwas. r.\LB. at r.rantford, Ont.. decided separate Telugu Missioi The first Missionaries of Ontario Convention, designated. Canadian F. M. Society, inaugurated at Beamsville, Ont. John James, Bap. F'astor, London, dragged from his pulpit to K. A. lyfe, D. 1), born. First principal of Woodstock Instil The Newton Theolg'l Instit't'n opened at Newton Centre, M Francis of Messin, Martyr, burnt alive at Arras, Flanders. Mrs. Gaunt, Martyr, burnt for protecting Anabaptists. A. V. Timpany, founded a church at Alloor, India. Rt. Hon Sir Robert Lush, born. Deacon, Regent's Park I Church, London. David Jones, A.M., visited the Red Indians in Ohio. Reuben Crandell ordained at Halloway. "The first ordai Baptist Pastor in (Ontario." Dr. Fy fe reported at Boston, Mass. , open'g of Cocanada Miss Bap. Pastors in Ilcester Gaol, Eng. . sent letter to Ch. at Chi Baptist Ch. , Halifax, N. S. , instituted. Seven members. Baptists founded a church at Ningpo, China. abaptists. I nt River .ondon 4 \ /er Nenn. •> rells. KriK, <; le father of V H nabaptists, in Fnt'lAtirl 11 Kl II li i:( IS. 1 Mission. 14 15 Hi lated. , Ont. lulpit to jail n ck Institute. IH entre, Mass. l«- inders. •iO )tists. ; •n- s I'ark Bap. \ u st ordained i •45- kda Mission b. at Chard jers. •4« •is- :m> PIOVEMBER. i>43. The Ness Testamtnt translated by Dr Mason for the Karens. ,640. Hooker's letter to Sheppard stating that "KoKer Williams was immersed ' ,s»/, CrozerTheo Seminary endowed with »i75.ooo is-o Pastor T. i.. Davidson began the Pastorate of first Brantford Ch, .1555. Richard Woodman. Sussex, Kng . "denied Infant Baptism ■ i5(,o, Hish. Jewell complains of the number of .\na-Bap. in his diocese. .1S19 .\(loniram Judson baptized his second convert in Burmah. 1S26 William Cathcart. DD.. born in Londonderry. Ireland. 1V7 James Mesday, martyr, burnt alive at !■ landers. i7(,5 Wi'.liam Carey, missionary, arrived at Calcutta, India if,6o John Banyan arrested for preaching. Imprisoned 12 years 1644. The (ieneral Court. Mass.. enacted a statute. "Banishment to .\na- Baptists." 1S82 Missiony. Miss Frith, arrived in India, sent out by the W.F.M S. 1O44. Roger Williams, published "The Bloody Tenet." •' King Henry VIII , ordered " all Anabaptist books to be burnt." , ,. Council of Zurich. Switz.. decreed "All Ana Baptists should be burnt." 1871. John McLaurin. mis. at O-.gole. began his second tour in Telugu. .1682. Pastor Collins' house broken into by order of Lord Mayor. Lond. .1535. Huber. martyr, burnt in Switzerland, -1O61. John lames, martyr. Baptist pastor. Whitechapel, hanged at Tyburn Gibbet. .1800. Felix Carey, aged 16. preached to the Hindus at Calcutta. _i646. Wm. Dell. A.M., preached beforethe house of Parliament, Lond. 1697. John Gill. DD.. born at Kettering, Eng. "A profound reasoner." _i884 The Miss. SS. "Henry Read." launched at Stamly Pool. Congo. _,857. (General Sir Henry Havelock died in India. " A good soldier of Jesus Christ." _i878. RylandT. Dillard, DD.,.died. He had baptized 4000 converts. ._i836. J. S. Gubelmann, born at Berne, Switzerland. _i825 Newton Theological Institution commenced its first session. ,_i08=. Pastor Fownes died for the faith in Gloucester Jail, England. ,_i876 Rev. Geo. F. Currie. sailed in " City of Cambridge ' for Calcutta. !(i I ■ 1 875. •4-' S75- :i-i 834- 4-1 831. 5-1 8G2. «— I 874. l-> 804. « I S08. »— I 659. 10 1774- II- 1708 14- [671. l»- 1802 14— i86r. 15 KS34. l«- '545 11- 1642 IH— 1S2S. l«- 1645. •iO- 1 67 1 . '41- 1800. Ti~ 1789. Zli 1753 •44 16^1. •45 1 71 16. •>«- ir)4S. '41- 1800 •4S- r8oo. •4»- 1701. :{0- [3S4. :u- S29. DECEMBER. Dr. Fyfe preached the last sermon at Bond St., Toronto. ■' forty years' survey." The Jarvis St. Ch , Toronto, dedicated, J. H. Castle, P.D„ Paste Thos. Edwin Vassar born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. J. H. DeVotie, D.D., baptized at Savannah, Ga. Douglas, Miss'n y, baptized convts in the river Pennah, Nellor David Benedict died, age 95. A Baptist Church Historian. Morgan J. Rhees died. Welsh Bap. hero of Religious Libert Hon. Levi Boone, M.D. , born in Kentucky. John Bunyan made his 6rst address at the Bedford Church. Memorial of Rev. Isaac Backus, Re Civil and Religious Liberl read in I'rovl. Congress, Mass. Jonathan Wade born. Missionary to Burmah, died 1872. John Bunyan completed his "Justification by Faith." Thos. Conant, D.D. , born Brandon, A't. A profound schola Konakiah ordained pastor of the Melton Ch., by Missy Jewel William Mylore, Missionary, sailea to Liberia, Africa. Card Hossius said: —The .\na-Baptists far surpass in godlines Lady Deborah Moody, tried at the Court, Mass., "for holdir that baptizing infants is not of God." William Howard, D. D. , born at Manchester, England. Lady Moody took a patent of land in Long Island, N. Y. , ar " guaranteed free liberty of conscience." John Bunyan elected Pastor of the Bedford Church, England. Two Hindoos, eat at Carey's table. The first break in Caste. .\nn Hazeltine, wifeof Mission'y Judson, born at Bradford, Mas Thomas Baldwin, ft. D. , born at Bozra, Conn. Hansard KnoUys arrived in Lond., Eng , from Long Island, X / Christmas Kvans born in Wales. The prince of Welsh preacher The first entry made in the Bap. Ch. Book at Biddenham, Ken Krishna I'al and I'elix Carey baptized in river Ganges, India. William Carey, Krishna Pal and others celeb'ed Lord's suppe Wm. Kiffin died, age 86. "A great man" says Lord Macaula; Jno. Wycliffediedat Lutterworth. He taught manvBap truth The first "Infant Sunday School " at Boston, Mass. Interesting Events in Canadian Baptist History Giironoiogicaiiif Arrangeri, i760-l900. :7f.(). Baptists from Connecticut, New England, settle at Newport, N.S. , p , ijhi. The father and family of Henry Allme settle at l X.S.. T'/'« London. Eng. 1794. Caldwell's Manor, Province Quebec. Baptist CI formed. 30 members. 1795. Reuben Crandall, a licentian preacher, evangelized a Hallowell, Ont. 1796. Brethren from CaldwelTs Manor fi^mied a Ch. a Eaton. Three Rivers, Que. 1797. First Church, Yarmouth, N.S.. organized. i7(ji<. David George baptized five converts in a river a Sierra Leone. 1799. First Church, Newport. Nova Scotia, organized. 1800. The^ First Ass'n of Baptist Churches of X.S. an< N.B., 10 churches. 1801. Bridgetown. X.S., Church organized. 1802. Elder James Munro from Scotland settle^! at Chester N. S. 1803. The First Association of Baptist Churches in On tario formed. 1804. Rev. I. Finc'n orixanized a church in Thurlow (Haldi mand). Ont. 1805. Argyle. X.S.. Ch.. planted by Henry Alline in 1785 lu'canic P.aptist. 1805. 24 1 S(rf). 1S07. iSo'j. iSiO. iSi 1. iSiJ. iSi.V I Si 4. 1S13. iSi'i. 1S17. iHiS. 1S19. lS3"l. iSji. lS.'2. 1823. 1S24. t8_>5. 1 8_'(i. 1827. 1828. 1828. l82(). 1 8,^0. 1 8.^1. 1832. i8>,i Fir.t Church, St. George, N.B.. organized. {iLLhusetts. U.S.. Baptist H.M. Soc. sent ciders to vJMt Bap. Churches in N.b. The N.S and N.B. Ass'n resolved not to recogn,.e ■•(Jpcn Communion Churches. Clements Church. N.S.. and Germ^un St.. bt. John. K.^^"S;vlid. a Scotch Baptist, evangelised St.'" -Xrmand, Stanbridge. and Durham Churches formed in Province Que. Keswick Church. N.B.. orgamzed. . F edericton, X.B.. First Church organized Home Missionary Society «' V^\ '^t \mlre ne'ir R \. Fvte. born ()ctober 6th, at St. .\ndrc. near RreiliallSt. olL the oldest ch. in the (Ottawa valley. Th;^'t1mi'N^B"-Ass-n held at Newport. X.S. Fuier Dimock. Moderator. Home Mission collections m Nova Scotia. :?i«(>, I ?67 members in .Xss'n- . ,, Hone Mission Board appointed in New Brunswak. NS and N.B. Ass'n (.^i churches) divided into two Associations. . , First Church. Canterbury. N.B.. organized. Cardwcll X.B.. Church organized. Johnston. N.B.. Church .Kganized. Flders Tupper and Crandall evangelized in I ■ -i- Ko- Joseph Dimock evangeli/ed in Cape Bretmi. The Baptist Missionary Mr-.gazine ot N.S. and :-i.v> published. • . 1 Horton (Wolfville) Academy tounded. A great revival in religion at Hahtax. NS. A nc\v epoch in Bap. History." . ^ ^ , ,^ The Horton (Wolfville) Baptist Academy opene.l. 40 pupils. ,, , . , -o T The First Baptist Church. Montreal. lormed: Kev. J. Gilmour. pastor. 11, The First Baptist Church. Toronto, built a new church home. ^Tarch St. , . , >t c . k„ Rev. Charles Tupper resigned Amherst. N.S.. to he pastor at Bedetiue. P. E.I. York Mills Church. Vonge St.. Com organized. The Fredericton Seminary opened; Rev. G. hpurclen. principal. inty of York, Ont. i n i 1835. 1836. 1837. 1838. 1839. 1840. J841. iS4J. >«43. 1844. 1845. 1846. 1847. 1848. 1840. 1850. 1 85 1. 185.'. 1S54. 1855. 1856. 18C7. 1858. 1859. i860, i86r. T8ru. Madame teller arrived at Montreal from Svvitzerlj Jbirst meeting of the Ottawa Association. Ihe ••Christian Messenger", published at Halifax, > J^irst Foreign Mission Society of N.S. and N.B. Acadia College instituted: Rev. S. A. Crawlev o cipal. Pastor B. Hoe. Montreal, i)aptized a British sold ^4th Regiment. Association of Churches held with the Onslow Chui •\.S. Rev. J. Pryor. Moderator. The Iryon Church. P.E.I. , organized: Rev Al -McDonald, pastor. The ••Canadian Baptist Union" formed on the mo <)t the hnglish Union. Rev J. .M Cramp. U.D.. appointed President of Montreal Baptist College (since defunct) First loreigii missionarv to Burmah from XSF Society. The Union of the Baptist Churches in X S X and P.K.I, organized. The X.B. .Association divided into •• Eastern '• ;i ••Western." fifty churches. The '•Christian Visitor" published at St. John X B 'Acadia adopted as the College 01 the Baptist^ the .Maritime Provinces. The X.S. -Xssociation divided into •• i„i>t." '• \\"es ••Central." seventy-two churches. 8.-,()7 memhcrs '^V- /• •■ ^'"^^tle graduated from the Lewishi L niversity. Prof. Isaac Chipman. Acadia College, drowned in storm on -Minas Basin. The Baptist Missionary Societv resisted the •^Clcr Reserve Fund."' The Western Canada Baptist Home Missionary C( vention formed. ^^P p^'''^"''" ^""^ ordained pastor of Tyron Cluirc Fonlhill Brantiord and Woodstock ottered huildi sites tor "a ..itcrary Institute." J. M. Cramp. D.D.. President of Acadia College, N, The Baptist Missionary Convention, Eastern Canac organized. The ••Canadian Baptist" published in Toronto as t organ of Regular Baptists. Canadian Institute Society opened at Woodstock. The Wolfville. N.S.. "Ladies' Seminary" opened. Bai)tist .Mission Convention, Canada Wesiou Society of Ontario and Uuebec instituted an iudepen.lent mission to the 1 '■■'"«;''-• 1S74 The Manitoha Committee >ent Rev. A. McD.mald to the churche. in the I'.ast to raise tunds mr evaii- -Tflization in Man. and NAV , ,, ^, ,. ,, ,S7- Wwfoundland evanyelixed hy Rev. J. P.. ^lcI)ollald. M. D. . T 1 iS7(.. Two youuK men baptized at Winnipeg. January J.Ud. "First converts." ,. , , , 1S77. The Acadia College. Wolfville. N.S.. .ie^troyed by tire. December 22nd. iS78, Revs. John Stewart and Ale.x. Warren engaged a- missionaries in the North-West. 1S70 TT.m. William McMastcr purchased a plot oi laii4. 1895. i8f/). 1807. i8f)8. 1895J. IQOO, ^'n.^;'':"!! d""' '■'""■^'' ^'■^^"--d l,y Rev. Elmor. '"'auKuStcd'^''^""""' ^' '^^^f-»- LIniversity n> !;ph"^ .1;:;!;;;:' ,/:::^;;' ^'r- "— ^ - s. FlIu?'Tn'''t ="'^' ^'"-"'-^^V^t F.^r. adopted Mi., l-lltn ric^t as tlu-ir missionary to the Tekmn. t.Ntuise ot Deuree-coiUcrrins." lor-nui v";[\v- ^'-^i°'-"-y Societv of AFani- Fir R Nyrtli-Uest report income ^Xj;^ F ' I '! '' V^"'"','''- •<^^'^'atKl. B.C.. o Ranixe.l ! (orSS bc^^^t .^;*-'-^^ ^'"-"- ^- T, ;^^^.„^^'^- '\-. I': McDiarmid, D.D., principal 1,' 11 '■'\x^ •■'''""■''' ^^'"'I'^l Cnnvention of Canada" '"■'"' ■" U,nn,pe.r. Man., [ulv ^tli to n I iclimr$ Mdind Baptist Principles in all tbe Centuries. FIRST CENTURY. (New Testament Believers.) Ihr Lordship of Jesns Christ, Eph. 1:22: Hph. 4:12.15; ■ Cor. 11,,. Scriptures supreme and all-sutficient. 2Tim. 3:ir); i I'eter I : i(j-2i. . A leseuerate church membership, i Cor. i : 2 ; Col. 1:2; t-pn. I ;3 ; I Thess. 1:5. The independence A each church. .Acts 1 1 : 22, Zij : 1 Cor. 5 : 4 The equality in rank and privihj;es of all the members Eph. :; 19; Gal. 3:2s. A . w llelievers the only subjects of baptism. .Acts 2:41; Acts s. 12 : Acts iS :8. SECOND CENTURY. (Primitive Believers.) Tlie Church fresh from the pure mould which Apostles had formed for A.—Annitiii^c-- ■■ L iiited only by the ties of faith, hope and los-e."— Gibbon. - Ihe inspired Scriptures were their full and supreme authority." —Achny. •Christians were numerous and their ^enerosity heroic."- A^vzt. •Preaching, believing, baptism, church membership, was the order. "Schaft. • ISaptism and conversion inseparably connected. — .^cliaft. T HIRD CENTURY. ( Believers in Asia Minor. ) •'.Ml the churches were independent and congregational.' — AJeiiy." , , • During the first three centuries, entire equahty ot church • •■ember?." — .Ifoslu-im. ••No distinctions indicated the pastor of a church."-.l' ^--o'" the Apo.stles."- 30 • ( oiiteucled for freedom of religious faith."— j^o/m Foxe. • rlie Welsh retained their ancient version of the Scriptures."- />i/!';c-,s. • riiey claimed the right to interpret the Scriptures for them- selves."- -//fti/v. Kitiised to haptize infants at the dictates of Rome. — Stune. •• .\t baptism the candidate was plunged in the water."— Lni/^'i/r./. EIGHTH CENTURY. (Believers in Piedmont.) ■ The old worshippers in the villages claim a succession of pastors from the Apostles." — Neiney-Sucii. • Distinguished by doctrine and practice of religious liberty.'' — Ri'liiiison. ■ The believers preserved the Gospel in its native purity."— y ones. •• ( iaiin always to have had the Scriptures ever since the apostles." Mort-lditd. •Contended that a church was an assembly of believers only." — \/(i)t7i/;/i/. • I'hey refused infant baptism." — Rchiiistnt. NINTH CENTURY. (Believers in Germony.) ■ in the third century the gospel was preached and churches formed in C.ermany." — .^fcslwiiii. •In the ninth century travelling pastors had friends in every district."— .^/i),s//f/;;;. "The Christians hid in the wilds and forests to preserve their faith." — Orcliiird. "The Romish priests termed them Ana- Baptists." — Rohinsdii. •riie term Ana-baptist is hid in the remote depths of antiquity."— Mdshtiiit. '• I ielievers baptized before reception in their church." — Mi'sht'im. TENTH CENTURY. (Believers in Milan.) ■' The Cluuches worshipped in the valleys."— Orr/trtn/. "They held the precious doctrine of justification by faith. ' --.4//;.v. •• riiey believed in the Trinity." — Joslin. " They insisted on the purii.. of church membership."- r^rc/z^n/. '•They practised i'mnersinji of believers in a large baptistery." — RoJnnscn. 31 J- 4- 4- 3- 4- 5- ELEVENTH CENTURY. (Believers in Sovoy.) " A people of extraordinary sanctity of life."— .Wav//f/m " They stiffered patiently for the truth."— J/,,- tn/>' "Zealous against the corruptions of the Ko.nish Church "—A "Contended for the prinntive purity of the Lords Supper Dt'oiliviit. '^ " i:ndeavoured to overthrow infant baptism."— »',,//. " Admitted only heiies ers to baptism."— /^,//,„«/;;<'. TWELFTH CENTURY. .Believers in France.) " Kxerted laudable efforts to restore worship to the simplicit Gospel teaching,'."— On /«(;-,/. "Opposed the abuse of the Romish Church." -rniUstus. " Simple and plain in manners."-.U()s//t;/;/. "They lived justly before men -retained the utmost .how piety.— irfht>f'-,> i ^i ,'"'-'''■'■• --^ ^'"^ •^ctHen.^■lds were the pio-eiiitors of t .Meiuiomtes."- /w;;(/-„>//:. - riiey adhered firndy to the baptism of adult believers."— ///s/. /»;(/(/) liiiptists. I., p. 57. FIFTEENTH CENTURY. (Believers in Bohemio.) 'They insisted on a new birth before membership."— .4 rmj/rt^?. ' They elected their own nastors— they were diligent in the scrip- tures.'— On //-.r. ,nc<.„,p. Chnst the Head of the Church." -/>/,//. Co«. ,,., ''CKUre;''r^ •" Christ Jes.,s.--/>„, C., ^/.^ ":Lr"rir^f^J^;;--o-^inter.r^^^^ ■'^:ro!:. t::' ^^ ^ ^°"«^««^*-" °^ ^^-ecJ ^.evers. "?^-WS, ':;;? ^'"--- *" -ter of a believer r"?lfeT7'r^ ''^''''"^^- '^^-- - *H. Wide Worl, Free. !° r ""^^ "'P^^"" ^"'^ all-sufficient. f reedom of conscience and entire seoaratinn r^Fru u A converted Church membership "" '"'^ ^** Sacraments in-operative without choice and faith Hehevers the only Scriptural subjects of baptism I."mers,on the baptism of the New Testament '^'"'"""^"""'-■^■'■'ii"P.i'nndpUs,rgoo find them in accord. Compare he "' ^ ^'f ^'"""^ Believers, an in the intervening Cen;^ a 'dT "t I'm^aH b ''^.^'^'T' '''''''■'' ness-allone-ONE LORD OVi vat^o A ^""^ *^^ same lik< UUKU, ONL PAITH, ONE HAPTISM. 5- 6. I. 2. 3- 4- 6. 2. 3- 4- 5. X.U.-The authoritie, are named with all t'le statements. M Ihc Conrinulh/ or Ikjprbts from A.D. .^), to I9(K). Haptists trace their lineage from Christ, not tiiroiigh all ■iiKiiiiization uf man's device, but throiigli principles, |.r utues and do< 'rines oi Uiviiic origin.' I "he successiun so much pleaded is a succession ot \]i..-iMlu' doctrine. " — StilUngAi^ t. riu true successors of the apostles arc those wh«. .iIh'u iheir teachings and imitate their lives.— //ijfo.v. riif Maptists may be considered the onlv Cliri>tian .MiiimiiMty which has stood since the apostles;' and as h ( hri-tian society which has preserved pure the doctrine of I 111 (iospel through all ages."— ZiJiry/. Reg. Know. The Baptists hold to apostolical forms in apostolic ^lirii. Apostolical and Baptist Church order best express \<>v .ill the spirit of Christianity."— .4. //. Newman. Baptists, .\na-Baptists, Waldenses, Primitive Chris- iMii>-this IS the chain of believers professing pure and iinpli- principles, exemplified in holy conversation— we li 111 tluse as the true and faithful witness of Jesus through ilu centuries." — Orchard. Hidden societies who have held many f»f the opinions •I ilic .\na-Baptists, have e.\isted from the time of the .iI'^Mles. In the sense of the direct transmission of Divine iniili. ami the true nature of religion, it seems probable that ilioc churches have a lineage or succession more ancient ili.in that of the Roman Church."— ^orr/ov. " The Ana-Baptists' aim was the highest possible— a ' litirch (.1 saints. Nowhere in church history is found such .- .i))proach nearer to the order and life of the Church of 'be .Apostles."— //a.j/.',r Ch. His. "In cviry a/e there appcirr.'. particular persons in all i;irt? ot Christendom who bore testimony against cor- niptions and tyranny. God was pleased to maintain an i;iimt(Trupted succession of witnesses through the whole time. —President Edwards. Ciod had a regular chain of true and faithful witnesses in ihe world, in every age, from the first introduction of ' iin^tianity to the present time, who never received nor ■'■■■ 'iinwlcdgcd the Popes."— President Edwards. ■ The Baptists are the onlv denomination of Christians iliat have not symbolized with the Church of Rome."— .?/> ! of the Warhurtou estate in Cheshire, prov- ni- that an ancestor of that old country family had I., Ill a minister of the Hill Cliffe .Church 111 1640. the Earl of Derhy. with Royalist forces, n a fierce cont^.ict in the vicinity of Hill Cliffe. "killed a g( dlv man and his wife." memhers ol the P.aptist * lunch. Ill 1654. the Hill Cliffe Church sent an affection- 11. letter to the P.aittist Church at Hexham, signed bv nine brethren. About the vear 164S. the uncrowned king. Oliver I ioiiiwdl. with his rugged, solemn, face, worshipped in 'lu Hill Cliffe Churcii. One of Cromwell's officers, a baptist, i)reached on thai occasion. The bare wooden i > luhes. and the rush strewn Hoor were good enough for :iu>e soldier Christians. They were fighting the royal nuy to obtain for the i)eople the liberty to worship (^.od Ml a simple form. In the orthodox smite-the-hip-and- •liigh fashion, well flavored with texts ingeniously 37 I ?1 m applKd tull of truth an.l rich in spiritual force, uoul, the nnhtap- pulpit orator pour forth an.l deliver hin, self Avlule preachin- to the "'Lord IVotector- and hi. Ironsides. I„ a battle fouoht after this service in th. eld i.ait.st chapel, some of Cromwell's soldiers wh. were slam were buried in the chapel buryiuK^ ^m^uncl of fll m\ ,"^ ■.^^' '^''''""'- ''^" ^veil-known autlB., o the D.alo.^ue of Devils." John McCowan. DD lal.ored n-o,n X740 ,0 ,73,,. Souk- internal troubles at one tune alni,.st ruined the church. It was with 'ut a pastor for sev.n years, hut during this time of .doon, the old chapel was never f.rsaken. A band ^i noble vvon,..n. met each Stmdav in the old vestrv t" weep, to kneel, to pray, amid the ruins of former .. orv. and neither the loni of the manor, nor anv one else could turn these faithful sotds fron, the ;acred sp t !-,ev loved so well. To the.n it was a conse- crated .pot. no, by the application of water from the n in. o, the uenonmation. k.pt the hre bnrnin..- upon tl^e^altar, and .etanuM unbroken the continuityVf tile ini'Chtre has been a prolitie mother of churches n:\^::rTor ^:^^:"-- - ^'--'"-'-^ W of these churches.^';L;;\Z':;ie^:X Wm of preaclters and money. In this w^' she :i^'! e 1' i^ n 'I; '^""""''- "'^'^'^ '^ -^ oi the old- -and-out Baptist, in ,?S priiicii'lc and practice. From her the cliainpion of i\il and religious liberty may have derived some of h's inspiration. No writer has more correctly set forth liii ruth as r.ajjtists hold it. than did the hushanil ' f Mrs. Milton, member of the Nantwich Bajitist ( hnrch. Hill Cliffe was also the mother chnrcli of •!i(. lanious and influential "First Church" at Liver- The quaint old chajjcl buildinii;- is cptite intercst- :;il;. It is constructed so that in the days of perse- ution. the worshippers could assemble underground, II avinii the upper part to appear as an ordinary dwell- !• - house. Running from the l)asement are traces i' an umlerground passage, for esc>.pe in times of ■aiiLier. speaking eloquently of what our father- had 1 (Hihu'e tor the truth's sake. i 5 15 39 I l|: JOHN BUNYAN'S FIRST CHURCH HOME. 1653-1660. (See Frcntispiecc;. A Saxon Clnirch built in the reis^n of Alfred tli." Great in tlie ninth century. Dedicated to St. John the I'.aptist. Endowed witli rich manor lands bv two Crusaders. {Robert De I'ary and Henry Saynt John, in the year 1280. 'i'rovided that one master and one chai)laiii should ])ray for the souls of the said De Pary and Saynt John." The manor lands confiscated by Henry VHI., and the church service converted from the Roman Catholic lo the Anglican. 1536. Oliver Cromwell susi)ended the Anglican Praver Book service: and the Church "living" was presented to the r.a])tists of I'.edford. 1653. Jolin (iifford and the Baptist brethren and sisters, eighteen in number, assembled for worship in St. John'.s Parish Church. 1653. John lUmyan wa< conducted to the parsonage ad- joining- the church, .by the four godly women, to be instructed more perfectly by Pastor C.iflFord. John r.unyan made jirofession of his faith in Jesus C hrist in this church home, and in the river innnedi- ately back of it. across one field, he was baptized. His name was entered on the church roll as the nineteenth member. In this old Saxon building. I'.unyan experienced "great joy'" when he '•break bread" for the first time at his Lord's table. .\t a prayer-meeting in this church home. Piunyan discovered his "^\h of preaching." In the churchyard was laid to rest the mort.d remains of holy John (iifford. "Xo stone marks the 40 .„, ,vhcrc he is buried, but there his dust l;^-'^;-";"^^; , , Lith that of the long hne of masters and chapla n. \ ,uhin<. through the long by-gone centunes all ahkc ;ig%he resurrection-Catholic, Anghcan and ',; rt •• The brave Crusaders, the haughty Church- ;:;r and the humble Baptist pastor each dependent ,,„,„ Christ, the Resurrection and the Lite. BUNVAN AND THK ORDINANCES. .,1 ,lH- l.ord-s Mipper. He sa>>. Uo > ,„,, are not desired between '"--^ , ^J ' ^ns. too. ;;;::;v:;:^i:;^-->:r;:M...:^-.n.»."-- ,„,,n/..d in the very act of l.apt.Mn. 152 41 ■1(1 Brief Records of a few, mmt mm$ m Canada. WICK, •V\CK\ l/Jj; ''"'"■- "'■'■'■ 'M-„K.,I („,'",'"'";"'■ 'I'-c ,l,i,.,,,„ ■''"■"■ '-".'• -"l -Vn.l,.-„\ ,:;"''■'' •■" 'iK. ..,, ,, ^ • '"'" "»- "'■'l-iMH'.l thoir -"■-•-■ - ,1,0 i,.,i ,,;;■';„'■■''"■""' ''-■ -I' ■•■•I 42 WOLFVILLE. NOVA SCOTIA. (Hugh R. Hatch, Pastor.) Date of origin of church as early as 1762-63. when •!ic l\iv. Khenezor ]\louIton came to this vicinity from Massachusetts colonv. Organized, October 29. nv 77S. First pastor and deacon: Nicholas; Pierson. iM..r: Benjamin Kinsman. Jr.. deacon First bap- behevers. ( )ctober 2(^ 177S. •iMi,. five believers. October 29. 177S. Jn 1779 ten ■dievers were baptized, and in 1780, thirtv were ban- nd. \- early as 1762-63. Ebenezer MouUon came {<> ri^ locahty and organized a church, which, however, a^ ,1 mixed body, in part P.aptists and in part New !-!ulits (Congrcgationalists). It seems jirobable that e found some Baptists here— who perhaps had come '"in the -Vew l-jigland colonies, 'riiis organization was not a Baptist organization, although Mr. Moulton h\m-.U was a Baptist. What became of him is not '^1 ted. This organization was revived under Rev. Mr;irv Allien, a Xew Light: but the Baptist element ^il>arated from their Congregational brethren and I'-cided to organize a Bajnist Church. Phere were n\<- ilai)nsts. Thinking these were not sufificient for ^limvli. they baptized five others and organized the 'I'ton ("lunch. Tl ese ter. pioneers were: Nicholas irr: n (an Fnglishman ;,:i(l chosen pastor\ TIenjami n mford. John Clark. Peter P.isl lop. .^il; IS -al )eaies. njamm Kinsman (chosen deacon), Daniel Huntlev, n Cauldwell. Esther Pierson and Hannah Kinsman. ^\ liicli of these ten were the five baptized, to make •lie nund)er sufficient to organize the church. I am' rnable to state, as. T am informed, the records do t - uli,. 1,.. II 1 ■ '/Vj' t\c\. 1. >. Hare - I'l^,. uii.. had I)t.c,i baptized on Mav ?ist l.v 1^ J' ." liunon of Halifax. „.,.,„ „i ' ' li '„ "r^ ■Vliool orKa,„«.,|. In Mr |ol,„ Prvor ■ , (iiKi in 1884. In Aprd. 1884. Rev T \ TU:-T Tr- '-'''''-' •^''•'- •^<^^- ■ ' ' June. 1897. Jn i^,,H. || r Haf,.],,,!, ^ ''^"^ ' InnM ,- , » ,/ iiateli diosen pastor xoTK--"'' <-oId\vell. Clerk. i-'I^ST COR.WVALIJS CHLRCH. \. S (.<^- II. -Martell, I'astor.j I5eyan as a e\.n-rej-ationalist Church 1— r. .-an hi.s .\„v r,,xl„ „„„is,rv i„ .Sova Scolia II,. M, -o- I •-" ,■ ',""" '•""""""«'" '^^iH.rcl,. Octobor ■li."^ Kanr- ;;'"'Ti..,,i;r''''^v'^^'"^'-^^^^^ 44 ; - the Scriptures. 'I'lu' ])ast<)r went \o .\niiai)t)li>. xT.va Scotia. ani(.nary Society, came amonj,' them. V>\ then- ,ivice and i-ssistance a unanimity was obtained, and Miue that time, the church moved along in order and ! ;irniony. iSo«. JMlward Manning; ordained a r,ai)tist jiastor. the church was orij^anized a full IJaptist IiSHJ. 1 hurcli. iS«jq, membership. -14 1. Sunday -clu'lars. 300. School ^1 3 r.i:AMS\TLLE, ( )XTARTC). 'I'lv oldest I'.aptist Church in Western Ontario. (\V. E. Stevens. Pastor.) Organized. 1776. First church built 1776 (the ullage then called Harbour). First church records. lo>t. First resident pastor, Rev. Wni. Holmes, ij^fx lirst deacon. Arthur Gray. First baptism recorded. October 17. 1807. Person. John (^.ray. baptized tn Fake Ontario. First Baptist pioneers. Christian r.uchner, Samuel Corwin. Daniel House. Isaac Staats. Susannah. Marv. Anna and Susannah Overholt. John. Arthur, and Elizabeth Gray. Jacob and Cathenne I'.eam Samuel and Anna Corwin. Robert Skellev. lames X^anatah. Alice Kitchen. Polly Root, came from "i ireat Britain and New Jersey. U.S. Charles E. Rigcfs. Treasurer, June, 1900. 45 I'l KST $ ■in I'M'ilST CHLkcll. IIAIJI-AX. \. s (A. C. Cluiti-. Pastur.j 178, n,r ''■'''"•' ''^ UaHfaxat least a. carl v. 7f<<). pavuK.cur^c baptized believers when -u K f ""s churd. was f.nin»ax. ;:••'""- '^pi-opal fa,th:"h/tiu:"fan:;"VT'^?;'" ;n..trav.M..n..tl,er„.ted;.;a^^ ^":'-^r;;i::r:i;;r,;;; ;^rr;^^^^^ "stcr. The I'n.vin,-. ,• V "'"' a\. a l.aptist mm- of fath -mi,,' T""' ^''''''''''^ "" ^^ l>'-"^--^'-<>n "» taith. and m ,7(^3 a church was constituted \ Uf -aspurcased I>yMr. Hurton. on which e' er me a.mmod,ous honse of worship, and also a d^^ ' •louse for the pastor. The buildin^^s are of brick ami worth about Si.cxx) lw„H«t. • ^ '"\:". '^'^'^'^ an !iu lirst i'.aptist ( hurdi. The full history of thi- ,; nicli i> very intercstinji. See ihll's History of i'.aj)- f-i,, .\hiritinie Provinces. iSHo, and Saun llistoiv ( ,;,iiiville Street liaptist Church. 1S77. .\i',i'.()'ri"s C()kNi':it pastor an.l .kaoms. jcnatlian i;al.lu„i J"l>'. Niittun. Danid Sntt..,,. Siniccn Wliite Fi,>t ''apt'sn,. jtuu-. iX.^.v i„ ,|,, Sutton llrouk. I'.dicv.- l;^ll..wsan. |-a,kcr>. fn.,„ ( ir.at JJritain. ami Sutton, Tom I luicd Statt's. 'Ilu- work was c-oiniiKMUi'd I,\ ministers from \\r niont. ServKHs were lul.l in barns an,l schools uni.i '^y. whni the- present el.apel was huilt. The ehureh was orp^amzed with nineteen memi)ers. of the^ ■ ''.'■•'"•'"•a I'arker i. the onlv one Hvin- she is now bHldHl'":!' '"[ ^'^^>r^^'<^" y^-^^' ''^■•- li^'-t has shone hvi^hlU thron.uhout the town. Deacon Ildlows. an- "ther charter member, was converted before iHu and ;••;'<■ f;'ty miles on horseback in order P. be bapt'ized I lie clnnches in Dixville. Coaticook. ISaldwin's Mill, own tins as the mother church. ft was loni^ con- neeted w,th Danville Association, \ermont. and suf- tm-.I larody. Since .X87. it has been un.Ier the Can- a'lian Convention, much to its advantaj^a- D W Jerry, pastor. June. )(;. THF. OLDE.^T OF TIIF PRINCE ED\x' \RD ISLAXD BAPTI.^T CHl'RCHFS, TFX- TRAL r.EDEOl'F, P. F. I ' con P !-• ''""'■• '^'''- ^-''^^ l^-'^^t-.r anl lea- cons Kc\. Charles luppe.-; deacons. Isaac Hradshaw. Jacob Strano and Isaac Schurman. First baptistn September. ,8,6. at P.eder,ue. The p,o,ieer Ilaptists "; locality. Isaac P.radshaw. Jacob Stran-. fron, \cw •nmsw.ck. Fl.ler Alexander CVawford. iu land, evan.crelized with a sjood der 'PTce ni .Scot- >! >ncc!";>; 48 k,\. riiarK> Tiippcr. tiitlii-r of Sir Lluirlos I'ui)- . \i>iliil I'ritu-c I'.dwanl Uland as a missionary in >_■;. and prcaclud a Hc(k(HU- ami .>thcr plaocs. 'riu' ,.,i following Rev. Joseph Crandall. of N'ew I'.run-.- ;. k. canif to the Island and spent a month or two '■ iiii^si(.nary labor. He hajuized three i)crsons at l'>e- ,.|iu and organized a baptist Cluirc-h. among ilu- unhers of which were several persons who had been ;,,pti/i'd i)reviously hy holder Alexander Crawfonl. i --Mtoh r.aptist ])reaeher. Some 350 names have he>ii , niollfd in the list of memhrrs, of these 310 were added i.y baptism. About icx^ have passed away to tlu-n- 'iavcnly rest. The ehltrch edifice has lately been rc-- •..r.d. ;ni;tor. Central Rede(|ue, Ma\. IQOO. HARLEM. ONTARIO. ( iruanized. 1803. hirst entry on church records. .bruarv u. 1803. Trcvious to this date Elder Joseph I '.null, a mi.ssionary from the States had preached. list pastor and deacons, September 24. 1803. David \ichol and Abel Stevens, Sr.. chosen a])tist in locality. Abel Stevens, from I'nitod -'atcs. 1-irst start, in i/tjo. a wilderness. Abel Stevens line to this cmmtry a United Empire Loyalist and Tnied uiis Tow risliij) of Bastard, atid went to Little 49 Trrm- d^wt iMMK JSi" •"i ■ ^ork to transact all hnsiiicss in connection. with seti- liii^^ this t.mnsliip on foot and canoe when he couM. At ahove date he was chosen deacon of this churvli alter organization. (Jn March i, 1804. he was 01- damed to preach, tooether with Brother Daniel Uerbv- shire. by I^Ukr Joseph Ccrnell. Minutes.— Met accord- ing to appointment at the hinisc of Brother Richar 1 Day. I-ddcr Joseph Cornell preached the ordinati.)ii sermon irom 2 Tim. 4:1,2. After sermon, proceeded to ordain JJrother Abel Stevens. Elder \-eets gave tlu- charge, l^lder Cornell gave the right hand of fellow- ship, and then proceeded to ordain Brother Derhvshire. IJlder Cornell gave the charge and Elder Veets the right hand of fellow.ship. Brother Stevens made the concluding prayer and Brother Derbyshire read the concluding hymn and dismissed. (Copy of minutes. 1 R. M. Stevens, pastor, 1900. \ITTORlA CHURCH, ONTARIO. The Baptist Church in V'ittoria was organized in 1804. Its first pastor was Titus Finch, of Nova Scotia. Unfortunately the church records of the first sixteen years have been lost. The constituent members were mainly United Empire Loyalists, who had settled in Norfolk. As far as can be gathered, the membership prior to 1820 was not more than forty. To-day. the church has about 212 members, having increased about forty in the past year. From the old church, material has been taken to form four or five churches. l'>oni this beginning, the Baptist Church in Norfolk has grown into between three and four thousand mem- bers. This church and neighborhood have been the scene of the labors of such veteran Baptist preachers as McDermand. \\'interbotham. Haviland. D. Boving- ton. pastor. i()on. 50 lUU-AUALBANE B \PT1ST CHL'RCH. ONTARIO. In tracing the history of this church, let us go l,;,ck in imagination to the year 1815, visit ''Old >,-.iia." and direct our steps to Lawers and Kilhn, n, I'erthsliirc. Here on a certain day the Baptist diurches bade farewell to a number ot their members, ^^l„, were about to leave for the shores of Canadri. In the spring of the following year, 1816, this band )f veiling characters reached Breadalbane, which was then , i.rimaeval forest. Here they did not forsake the "as- M mbling of themselves together," until they had a chapel huilt or comfortable homes erected for themselves, but ^Nhik- thev lived in small temporary huts made only inr the few months of the summer, they collected m the heart of the forest to unite in prayer and praise ,,, (lod— no covering but the canopy of heaven, no pnnecting w.M) but the thick and lofty forest, the i,.lia<:e of which protected them from the scorchingi Mui.^until a temporary covering of boughs was pro- vided. The spot thus consecrated was somewhere ahout the place where stands the home of J. C. Mc- l.aurin. Cod prospered them and some were baptized iliat same vear. On August 2, 1816, they organized themselves into ,lu' Breadalbane Baptist Church, that being the name , ,f the i^art of the Old Country from which they came. It i- the oldest church in the Ottawa Association, and -or nine vears was the only Baptist church in the ( Htrava Vallev. At its organization, the Breada'.bane rhiirch consisted of thirteen members. Their names were: Allan McDiarmid, Mrs. Margaret McDiarmid, Miss Janet McDiarmid. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mc- 51 ^ ? ^ ,0' >i"- .f'. p. '0" JJougall. Air. and Al'-s. Duiicau Campbell, Mr. aiiU Mrs. Donakl McLaurin, Mr. and Mrs. John Mc- Dougall, I'eter Stewart and Susan AlcLaurin. Allan McDiarniid and Peter McDougall were chosen elders, and Duncan Campbell and Donald McLaurin, dea- cons. 'J'hey received but little compensation, but laboring with their own hands they preached the Gos- pel according to the measure of ability God had given them. C)n one point they differed. Mr. McDougall was a strong Calvinist, while Mr. McDiarmid verged towards Arminianism. Each had his disciples, and finally the feeling became so strong that in 1821 they separated and formed two distinct churches. Vet, notwithstanding this division, the Lord added to th.' one church twelve members the same vear. and to the other twenty-five. In 1826 a reunion of' tl.e two churches was effected. Mr. D. McEwen, of Drum- mond. seemingly was instrumental in bringing this re- union about of the advocates of Divine Sovereignity and human resp.jnsibility. So complete and perman- ent was this union that it still exists. In 1829 the church began to feel strongly the need of a pastor who would devote his time exclusively to the work of the ministry. They set apart a day for prayer; as they prayed the Lord was moving the heart of the Rev. Wm. Eraser, of Inverness. Scotland, to- waids Canada. At the time of Mr. Eraser's arrival, tlie ehurcli had increased to about sixtv members. ]'"nr two or three years, although his labors were abundant, but comparatively little fruit was seen. He became disheartened and seriouslv thought of leav- ing and going westward. Rev. Mr. ( Jilmour. of Mon- treal, was accustomed to visit Breadalbane at the anni- versary of the iiible Society. Mr. Eraser told his troubles and disclosed his mind to Brother Gilmour. 52 wlio related to him, his own experience, and told hnn tlni a revival be^an in his pulpit, went to the pews. an.l thence to the world. Whatever was the effect ot r.p.ther Gilmour's conversation on Pastor l-rasers „„n.l it is a fact that he sent a letter saying. "Brother ( .ilmour, come up and help us. all the country is on ihc move!" Mr. Gilmour came to his assistance, also Krv Mr. Safford (from Fort Covington, N.Y.). These VI to days of "Heaven upon earth" to Breadalbane. TlK- subject of religion was the all-absorbing theme. Alort- than one hundred persons were converted, bap- tized and added to the church. Pastor Fraser labored for nineteen years in Breadalbane, when he resigned ;in,l removed to Kincardine in 1850. In the same vear that Pastor Fraser left. Rev. Dr. ,\n> j. L. (iardiner, nastor 1^ la t /-• \ankleek Mill. d^.I^Ho. j.^e, 19^; '^""'''^'"- ^''^••'^'• clarj:ai(,xt. oxtakio. Aujrnst 4. ,8^1 Fircr^ ^' ""St church records, "■ickso,, and Ra„,Ial Wife J, ",7~"- J"^l>":. same time, t oriuln, I i "''''"''' <^'»«f'l « ship, l.ersons.- Kli.a.Ht f Trav^'^nd U:","' ''"""■ Pioneer baptists i,„.i ax- , "^^'^ Law-ence. An,os ^^■ieL„':■ /::^J'^:;^j''t' ^^"■ Kachel. R„,|, a,„, vii^abeth \n l Wickson. '-.V, England, later frt? CaprCo™- ""■ "'^™">- Church of Markh : ' hornet Xr"" P'^' ''^'"''' ■^ed into a chnrch. lo," „1 Wi u "''" ""'' °'^'"- .iosiiua Hick-son ua.s the first 54 ;.i-!.'r. and rc-niained ])astor uj) till his death in 1850. A >al)batii School was orjianized in 1855 hv l-^ldcr hit-. 'i"he Church has j^rown fnjni nineteen to 170. I lu cause is at present holdinj:^ its own in the con.- iiinnity. There is a flourishing Young- People's So- (ui\. Mission I'and and Mission Circle all doinc- sfooii, -nli^tantial work. Alex White, pastor. J IRST CHURCH. WOODSTOCK. ONTARIO. (R. R. McKay. Pastor.) Date of origin. 1821. ( )rganized. April 22. 182J. i !r>t church record, April 22, 1822. h'irst pastor and tUacon, IClder Thomas Tallnian. Richard Tims. I'irst i'.ipiisni. April 22, 1822. Names, Joseph Northrui>, I'lhn IJaldwin. l-'irst observance ot Lord's .Supper. April 29, 1822. Pioneers, from New York State. I'"irsl lUrk. Salmon King. In 1 81 7, a strict conmiunion Paptist Church e\- i-t(,(l in West C )xford, under the pastorate •){ Elder Mayhce. In 1821, Elder Tallman. of New ^'ork State. \i>ited the locality and in 1822 came to reside. .\ w'lrk of grace followed, a free ctjnmumion church was "fganized, T^lder Tallman being of that ])ersuasion. \Mtli a membership of nineteen, which was soon in- I rrased by conversions and baptisms. On ( )ctober 13. iS_'2, a branch church was formed in the hi^use of J'lseph Smith. Blenheim. Darius Cross and James Harris were ordained on October 31st. These breth- ren . with Elder Tallman. visited South Norwich and r^anizcd a church there in February, 1824. This is ■'"w known as Springford Church. On January 16, 1.^25. another branch church was formed in Taft'g 55 ^, •> *¥ lie local t>. An interesting historv of the first seventv >ears of US .nstorv has^h^^itten hv R. W^ Sau'll SA\\YER\ ILLE. QUEBEC. (H. C. Xewconibe. I J. A.. J'astor.; ^Jrtrani^e.I. December i: ,.s,, pir.f . church records. Deceniber ^o. ;^: , F .t" I' l''' I--o,-,R October 6. 1822. First pastor, Rev. Joseph ( ran. kill. Deacons. David Steeves. Henry Steeves. I.^ph .'^teeves. clerk, from Germany. In lulv. 1763. Hendrick Steeves and Margaret, his N ii, landed here with their seven sons, John. Jacob. ( ! n^tian 1-rederick. Henrv. ]r., Ludwick and Mai- , na^ from ( lermanv. The fifth son. Henry, being ot , pious and religious turn of mind, early in life would all the people together, and read his Bible and ex-^ ■.,ain. and exhort them to repent and believe. He a. made hai)pv by the conversion of a young man iMMud lames Wallace, whom he encouraged to take , Ua.ling part in the meetings. When Joseph Cran- ,bl! cauK' to visit the place, he found the field whUe. ;. a,lv for the harvest. Karlv in the year. 1822. seventy- ^ -rn were baptized, and on October 6, 1822. were •,,rnud into the First Hillsboro' Baptist Church. T! .V gave the above named James Wallace license •.. l-rcach. and later on thev ordaine.l him to the (.ospel •';ini^trv When the dear old grandfather. Henry -u.vcs. -saw the grace of (lod." and the people tlock- • ., t.. the standard of King Jesus, he walked up and '..\vn in the meetings exclaiming, "(dory be to dot. 1-. F.. Steeves. clerk. C: I I I t «■ I FIRST liAPTlST cHURrn c ■^•■'■^, -<">■ '""- ""■••" ^;o.i ";:i^ ,:;;;i: >(>me time ncnr »i ;'-^'"ted Salisburv J„ J '' •'''". '^' father Cran.Il, -^•''"1 River -.n:! "^ ''■''>' ""'>'" Vova o, ,.'^'^'*"''''" \\Jl()t. Pro,,;,, , ^ '"'-'>sion worl- i., i '^" ue are about f,, K, i , '■ "'^ed to-dav known ac ..-ri '*"''d a ne»- i, '■"-' iit to the Provinces prevented his accepting them, ■ii.l induced him to become the pastor of the Fir^t * Iiiii-ch at ]\Ioncton. X.Ii.. im Sei)tembcr ist. It -"'1! became evident that "the right man had got to ;lu right place." Moncton had then suddenly arisen " a ])lacc of importance among New Rrunswick '•uns. on account of the railway operations which luid then just commenced, and of the ship building HKhistry which then flourished there. The result was .: large influx of people, which gave a wider sco]-o .!iul greater prominence to Mr. Emerson's labors. I 111 church soon rose under his ministry, and the ii"iise of worship was found to be too small. A large . ".I t'xpcnsive building was accordingly commenced. ■iiKl was finished before his death. During 1856-7. a I'lvoious revival was experienced. By the mysterious irdvidence of God. the pastor in the midst of his useful- nrss. in full vigor of his manhood, was called suddenlv to his eternal rest at the age of thirty-one years. Pas- ''T Emerson will long be remembered as an eloquent ^I'oaker. an original thinker, and an earnest worker ■"1 his Master. From this time forward, the church ^rcw by leaps and bounds: in 1875 it numbered 309 members., ten years later its membership doubled 59 C: S :* being upwards of 600. At the close of the centurv the inenibership of the Moncton Frst Church is „o;' 1,1X6. being the largest Baptist church, numericallv m the Dominion. Pastor. J. H. Parslev; Cltrk, | V Wallace; Treasurers, A. H. Jones. S. Crandall; Dea- cons, B. P. Crandall, Isaiah Steeves, J D SteevcN John Bird, H. C. Charters. Chas. Fairweather, James Cunuiungs. A. Barnet, Percy Crandall. June, i.^xx SI idPt ' Mm* SMITHS i-ALLS. ONTARIO. (O. (i. Langford. P,.A., B.Th.. Pastor.) JlcDougall now of Pilot Mound, Mr.' aiurMrV Colin McAal). Mr. and Mrs Cile. Mrs. D. McEuen. Mr, i^iicjiaiian. troni Scotland. Kev. Dmuan McXab was the Hrst pastor. IK- preached at least five- years before the organizatio,, •" 1X33. ni ]„s own log house, still occup\/. Ihe ])resent stone edifice was erected in 187. dedicated December of that year. The pas pastors were 60 SIX vc:ir>; ;,;; .-.wo years; K. I.«."ie, (our year.- I Uckcn>. .,„ "ears: J. W. Weeks, seven years; C. b. (.. U otjiie, thrcr years. P.LOOMSHUR(i, (JNTARK). Hk- tkst believers baptized in the ^-;^^'y ^^X ..UurchatBloo.sbur,were:J..^^ ,,„! ,vife. Lavina Kuchen ■^'^^'^^^ Tos.ns.nd »,,„„„„ .ook place in .he -eek on h Co e fa ^_, ,„,i , ,„i,e from the v-Uage Mee ...B ^^.,_^,^ ^ " "'f '°^, n°";.'r:;eT°Vub etem> a .ar,e .ran,e ;-^;;;nr;:rr^..ha„a.noo..^ Th, or.anization was called the Secona ^ , :,„rd,," and later "The Btoomsbnrg Church. T^h stituent members were *'"''-J^:'- ^^^t^fcu.ver. M,.s. Samuel CuWer Mr. and Mrs T.mo y ^^^^ I,. „„o joined the church m. 835 ar^t ^^ r,,u.r Ceorge Ryerse. of Pmnt R^^'^*'^; ,, fo, - -' r^VetrKui:r«™- j- ■vMiUy ycarb. nerut-.iL ' ' i(X). 61 'St iim^f '''UK jAkMS sTkiiKi 0.\"l.\kJ(j. 11. lokox ' ). 0'- 1>. Th..,,,a.. D.I,., j,,,j,,,.^j of the Ba„,<„,Vi, :er.Sti;'""'- """"" """'»"'■ .' ^c^;..ar ..,«.„„„•',;,: ™;;tr,:;-',';;;',:':.f,,;:;,,;-- At a niec'tino- U.-ld i, v. ■ cnurcii, "e paid ,!„■ first instaiment of £i > ' .iKv-v v;,riy ci'^v,'' ..i?r;'" "T '•'■'• "■""«"> ■•'■■•-■-'1 "'• >n trust... i„ niacv "f R , 'f ■''"'"=' Leslie chos- Wved to B;„:tine) ' Du° ''I ^' ^^T"™', '^ was built on \f-,r^l, s, ""'^ '°3A 'I'e first clia|>,-l itv for s X,; Pre^t; T .^"'f "'D. >"th a caplc- a. tit -uc tap. :: To "'"■"' '"^"'>-fi'-^- '>-"-"■ p-s- for ,.,z^z ^;:::"T;;^ ';rr' pastor. Rev \ ^fP»..>rf • . ^ >^"- *"e '^''^f rented to firother ChZ,- ^""^'^- '^ftervvards it «.i. '^-<'^.c.nreh'''".:;rr;,'j;;:i/i;'';,^'--^ ii!!.-< ..,!,t. tiic incni- 62 U, ,1 ilic Mauli Sircct c luuvli -ustaiiu.l :i pravcr- ,„■ ,ni- at the lumsc of ,.,u' <.I llu- hivthron rcsM.n- ,Hr. kn-x Cluinh In .H^y six leailin^' uH-mUvr^. ..:, ,(,; ,n!uaitv of the church. >cMit an apphcation t.. the ^,,i,„„al Uai4i>t MisMonan Society ol Lun.lou. Kn-- l„„i uskinu lor a nii^Monar> i.astof. In .S40. the Ke.. \'\ 11 (..utnbs— MMil out l)v the l".nj,^hsh I'.aptist S.- ,,,(, n.a.K a sin.nK rally, atul the ohapcl on MarjMi S. >;is n ..peucd. A suhscrii.tion was made by the ni, M i„rs and adherents aniountinji to $7tx> per annum .,,. ,lu. support of the cause; on this list the name of Wni \UMaster appears with the promise oi $50 per ,,H,inn. Thirteen me.nbers o.mposed tlio re-or^^anized ,1„„,1, KememberiuK the >..rrow of past years, the c!i ,urrh made request for -the prayers ot the anad.an ,l,„,-che«. ..n behaU- of their httle society, especially tint it may enjov heavenly mindcdness. Gospel sim- ,,1 ruv fraternal love and devoted zeal for the advanee- „uHt'of the interests of Zion." How eloquent is th-s ivHue.t' In 1841. the sum of $13.65 was raised tor r,n^si,.nary purposes, and in 1842 the sum ot M-'-'/ i,,r the same object. „ , . .1 1„ September. 1844. l^r. Fyfe was called to th. ,,wr>i^ht of the church, (^n May 4, 1847. a buddm^^ ootunittee was formed, and Dr. Fyfe and \\ m. Stewart .re appointed to draw up articles of faith, to be m- -,,ud in the trust deed. In May. 1848. W m. Mo- \la.ter tmitcd with the church by exi)erience. in intu- the lU.nd Street nuirch was .>pene date wa, bi.ooo. 63 *% N J *1l f n and the minilv niombcrs in actual follow ship, seventy. L'p t(/ .iii> time all baptisms took place either in Toronto I'.ay or at N'ork Mills. In 1849 tlit-" clmrdi entered the Haldiniand Association for the first time. ]n 1852 the hiiildini; on Bond Street was considerahK enlaroi-d. 1„ 1X55, J)r .IVper resipicd the pastorate, and Dr. I'yfe received a second call, which he ac- cepted. In October, i860, Rev. '!'. h\ Caldecott, 1).!)., became pa^to^. In 1864. the membership was 4;... In October, i8()6. the Alexander Street (hnmanuefi was formed, about twenty members receiving letter, of dismission from I'.ond Street. In July, 1869. tho Kev. W'm. Stewart. J).D., of 15rantford, assumed th.; pastorate and jjreached the funeral sermon of Dr. Caldecott. During- the i)astorate of, Dr. Stewart both the Vorkville ( lUoor Street) and the Parliament Street C hurches were organized, the former taking tweiitv- six members and the latter thirty-one members. ' In May, 1872, Dr. Stewart resigned the pastorate and was succeeded in Februarv. 1873. bv Rev. ] II Castle, D.D.. of Philadelphia. ' On Xovember 28. 1875, the last services in the Bond Street Church were held. Dr. Pyfe in the morn- ing .gave a "l-'orty Years Survey" of the church, la the evening "a farewell service" was held. The ne.v building on Jarvis Street was dedicated December 2nd. It was erected at a co.st of $103,000, all pail, the Hon. W'm. McMaster and familv contributing; $60,000. ]n 1 88 1 the membership had reached 700. and the amount contributed for all purposes nearlv $10,000. During this year the Beverley Street Mi:^ >ion Hall was erected at a cost of $8,334 to the Jarvis Street Church. In April. Dr. Castle resigned the pas- torate to become the Principal of McMaster Hal!. 64 'I V \,rtr an interval ot eighteen months, the Rev. B. \). n.„„na>, D.IK of Philadelphia, received a unatumous ^,n a.Hl began his labors October 2 1882 Dunn^v ,1,, pastorate ot Dr. Thomas, he has baptized 659 be- i'.v.rs and the church has contributed to Home I or- ■■„„ -uul Denominational Work, $244,^77. added u. Mmh'in 1887 Hon. Wm. McMaster donated $1,000,000 • M.Master University, and Mrs. McMaster dona ed .,s,.oo to Moulton College. in comrast with the ;:,„,...tuous vcars of the early history of the church. :: ter vears have been a Beulah Land experien e V .i- /o -tp °; ;i; ;^r rroty-^"^''"! amono the neonl/ri.,r- i ^"^ remained ■le.pised Baptists, ^kev ,oh„ ^hl 2 °' '"^ "«" ■"-- Kivers. hearing th'a°"he«Jaf'" """" '' .iniong the nennl» !,«„ • • r ""' ^ movement i'ore the oppo o^ ""/''■"== ■«""'<•• They bravel, ■•....I others we 'J T „^"'''"'""' °' 'heir friend^, Th,,s ,i;",™berr4ew ';i,r" t'° *^ ^'■p"^' '-«'■ ';e..m ... h«i,d r:,,';,;™: " ;"on^^j;;r7,«, 't; '!;,'■■■ i'-',orc:'':,:f ."■'■'•• ^ r;-^-Hi;%rt^,e:::: •he excises ""' '^'^'-^™' '»l<'"~ P»r. i. 66 Ktv. John Shaw's pastorate lasted till 1874, dur- 1110 which time he, baptized 164. During an absence. Krv. lolin Knox visited, and baptized forty-four. In July, 1877, Rev. J. A. Gordon became pastor ami remained till October, 1880. He baptized forty. And another year's vacancy, , in October, 1881. Rev. K. 1'.. Kinlay became pastor and remained till Sep- iciiihcr, 1883. He baptized twenty-five. A few months pa^.. and Brother A. A. McLeod, Licentiate, becomes paMor. In September, 1887, .Rev. R. H. Bishop as- Mumd the pastorate and remained till June, 1893. ! )iii iiii; his ministry thirty were baptized. In May, !S(i4, A. C. Shaw, Licentiate, became pastor and stay- nl tin August. 1896. He baptized twenty-five. In ( )rtober, 1896, Rev. E. A. McPhee became pastor. Seventeen were baptized and two deacons appointed, \w... lohn E. Robertson and John I). McVean. This pastorate ends July, 1900. The total number of names on the church books from the organization is 431. Tlie present membership is 183. During vacancies in \\\v pastorate, the pulpit has for many years been ably tilled by Deacon Alexander Scott. Sr., who is a Ucen- ti.ite of the church. Former members here now jivaehing the Gospel are: Rev. H. Morrow, mission- ,.rv in Burmah; Rev. H. C. MelHck, Emerson. Man.. i.vA Rev. T. ■'^- Ford, Eastport. Maine. Meeting bMn>es: First begun in 1832, second begun in 1857. •liird now beginning in T900. ITRST B\PTIST CHURCH. MONTREAL. QUEBEC. ••The annals of this church show since its fortna- ■'•■m in tSy. a clear increase in the first year of six- teen, in the second, eleven, in the third, thirty-f.nir 67 4 'ii^i-r ''•if" m and in the fourth, twenty-seven. A Sunday S.I, . i connected uifh tl,« < . .; / , -^umid} :5eluK) (jilniour beiran a Honi« at- • \\isnes. Brotiior ^•alley. In^ the sma f ^^.'^^"^7 ^""'^ "' the Ottawa fron.lrontreaMoaae,ul":^?U"MH' '^"'^^ ^^^^'^^ he did a -reat work ' ' ^"^^^^'^Ibane to Ottawa, I-- A CoJ ami T w~T ' '" ''"P"''* '"^^'^ ^y Dr. tlH- Kn^;:^ ^tists^^;^3^ '^'"""" ''"' ^^ ''>■ ST. GEORGE. OxNTARIq. Organized. March ^n~Tc7r , ■ records, July 14 tSoc -• ? ' ^'""'^ ^"^ry on church Reuben Cranit'l/'^h'osen' Feh"'"' Z^ '^^^°"^' Elder Pembleton, ,832 R n.vf ?? '^' '^'^' ^^ephon baptism. March ,0 ' ^slTV'"'' ''' ^^^5- First Person. Stephen ^g.^tttn. To^e thltl^-r"^^^^- correspond. ^ ^"^^ dates do not and R. Sanburn clerk ^?"'';^^°" ^^'^^ chosen deacon that of Enos Griffith Mo u '* ^''P^''"^ recorded is On July 30. is/fi ';e o/d'e, Z tt' '' '^ ^''^-^^^'^• Skinner. M,rv Kitrh « Tr u^ '"'"P^"'" ^^ Benfamin -larv Kitchc-n. Martha Dayton, by Elder N. 68 IrtiK-h. Others were baptized by Mabee and French in tlu' same year. Elder Crandall is chosen pastor, I ihruary i6. 1828, but regular organization is in 1832. Tin first records are of cases of discipline. First in Mid of rovenant meeting is July 18, 1829. R. Cran- dall and wife were received as members April 10, i8>eS. I tuid the name of Elder Alverd as having baptized Marv llanunil. June 18. 1827. The church was at tiiM known as "The Regular Baptized Church of riin>t at Dumfries." This was changed June 2. 1838. 1m -The r.aptist Church in St. Ceorge." The church at first worshipped in a frame build- in- 1.11 the farm of Mr. Hugh Patten. The first move- nitnt tor the present building began I'ebruary 18. 1837, aiii! the new building was dedicated iti 1858. Since Mi-anization there has been about 1.500 members re- rn\v<\ in various ways. D. M. Mihell. M.A.. R.Th.. pastor. 1900. U.^T CHCRCH. BKAXTFORl), ()XTARI(\ In 1832. IClder Mabee and Elder Rees preached in i\\- -oliool-house: church fonv.id. 1833. William Rees. i r- pastor, 1833 to 1842. a Welshman, born 1804. died SSS. aged eighty-four years. Elder Mabee was the tM>T to administer the ordinance of ba])tism in Uram- •"!'!. in 1833. previous to the formation of the IJaptist > ; noli. Tlic first baptism was performed in the drand K'ivcr. a few rods from the present Iron Bridge. Miles i^baw and wife. Deacon Pillsworth and wife, John iiannnill and others were the candidates. Tt was in 1':- winter of 1833 and the ice had to be cut. .\mong tl osc who belonged to the church at its formation 69 ■r' 3 1 iQli •P \\err 1 )cai.-on Mol)iarnii(l and wife. March 5. 1X^5, tlu' cliurch |H\\s were rented at S6. $8 and $10 each, leaving a few free. \o favors, tlie highest bidder j^Mt his choice. The lot on which the chapel was huilt was the ij-ift of James Riggar. The first Sunday School was fonnded January. 1S41. The first collectimi amounted to £2 los. (n\. .\mong the scholars were 'I'homas and Sarah Spencer. William and Jane liuck- John and Ellen Jackson. James Tutt. Roger Cropp and xMfred Watts. ( )ften the services had to be licH in houses or in some temporary building. On Satur- day night the pulpit and seats had to be constructed. In 1837 the chapel was burnt down; rebuilt, 1838. In 1837, John Winch made a confession. "1 was taught infant baptism, but now I see it to be one of the worst delusions of the age we live in. I look upon those practising it. as treading on the last law of the Lord, which He strictly commanded us jo obey.' Brother Winch had the scales removed from his eyes, and like the Apostle Paul, when he could see, he "forth- with arose and was baptized." , 1842, John Winterbotham. pastor to June 1830. In December 1850. T. L. Davidson, pastor to March i860. T86r. John Alexander, pastor to December t86:. 18^13. William Stewart, D. D.. pastor to May, iSrx), 1869, Charles Carroll, pastor to February 1870. 1870. February 4th. the Park St. Baptist Church was organ- ized. Deacons. Robert Morton, and Thomas Draper. Rev. John Alexander of Montreal, the first pastn--. Forty-three members were dismissed by letter from the First Church as the constituent members of the Park St. Church. In May 1870, J. C. Hurd, M. D.. pasto- of First Church to July, 1873. ^873. W. H. Porter. M. A., pastor to January 1880. 1875. East Ward Baptist Church formed. August 27th. twentv-three members 70 -M.l lor tlR-ir letUTS to iK-omu- iho ccn^^UUK-nl nu-iu- ;,,;, , „■ this new oburch. 1880. Wni. Brookman pastor K,r.-liorttinie. In August of the same year J. B. luUU;. ;,.,,, to ScpUMul.er .884. 1883. the "N.^rth Mar ;,;,:„.,„ ,l,apol erected at a cost of ^^s^y^y ihc i^^n ot !.,,„lKr r S Shenstone ami Bn.ther John llarns iss- Deacon lohn Harris died, aj^e torty-s.x. \ M,n:t,an gentleman." The Bramford ••Kxp..sUor .,„, nf him: -In the home, in the hnsmess. m the ,;:,„vlK in the Snnday School, in the connnnmty. John ,, ,,n. uas a man among a thousand. His Oinstiamtv l,a',l no prndish fringe about it. U was common everv ;,;: ' Christianity, which was redected in the example Mid the life." , , , 1 ,„ In 1800 T S Shenstone issued a book he com ,n.d. -A lubilee of the First Baptist Church. I'.raiu- a ,8,Vto .884.' Not since Thomas C rosby. Lo. - ::: K,;Sand. compiled the -History o the Rngh>h V.anti.t." in 17^. has there been pul)hshe(l sndi a ,„„„,,, sense '"History" as T. S. Shenstmie s^ % ^ nil-FX STRKKT CHrRCH. ST. ONTARIO. CAT'H ARlN'l- Date of origin of church. May 4. i^3.V ^t Teii M,le Creek, two miles from St. Catharines. J »ri^a.v uM. Mav 4. ^833. First entry on chtirch -c-rds Ma^ , ,8:5^.' First pastor and deacons, F.lder 1. H,U U.an^ille. pastor; ( leorge Havens, deacon. W r i)avid Currie. shortlv after organization, became past.M. There were twenty-two members at -^^-^^;^- ^^^ \ few l'.aptists were early found m r.rantham. nn 71 0%t to Dreach 'VU i . "^" ''^^e" licensed preach. Hk- cliurch was known for ten ve;,r the (.rantham Baptist Church Dnr r« i " " in a fire nine vears aL^o r < " f'""''' ''''' ^"'^ ^'"-ch located' rhe'Stv:.M,r"'"^ 7" ^«^^^- "■^' .School was f..,„H>"/"^'"''^-'^ ••^'^•"••'J^ -oul.l furni.sh ,:,-.- 1>UN1).\S. ONTARIO. r)r.a.i.e.l T8,4. First entry on church reconh ton deacon. Tos ah Unvrt^ <,- i- . 1 . ' rh„"l ''1;';:':,,",::,;,;''™'"' ^'-^ ■■» ''-"-lar Ma,,,,-, «c have- ,! jou " 7' ?°' ""'"'""^ ""'« '^.'^ "^"- These ; „r", '" "''"'"Sr- and instructive a. '■' ^afetv r' 1, k ;, "r" "' P'""'' "' ->">-= I>1^-- . also a M.All^^r '4- , «;" "? ''"■ J' "• ■;■ -t „„o„ :!', :i" :•:;:" »;y;».v ^oh. ,.,o.L: i-inircli clerk. ^'^ J- ^^cw^^ retirin- HUNVAN, ONTARIO. (H. I'liillips. Pastor.) ^^X:s:;r''^;:^^^^^^^^ 0.-,.. «'Hi H'.bert S.^ I';^-;- ;""l., \^ letter has contmucd ver> hea\>. Urk. June, i^joo. ^ SIMCnE. ONTARIO. • A T,ilv o 18^6 First Church Record.. ( )rgantzcd Jul\ 9. i*""?"- p-,st(.r > 1 r^ iR^r, First pastor and .leacons. I aMor. lUich Fir-l biM'tism. December .8, 18,^6. .-^^ slnlcoe. Believer, Horatia Dodge. P-oneers, from i.-niteil Slates. ,„^„j ,,,5 , ''■''' ^*^ri.r"m"v -"rand^Boston were l,,.„„„„S of t-i^-""^-^^ ,.^, missionaries from the ■Sd ta.Ts .r .He^^t to preaeb tbe Gospe, and establish V.aptist churches in tins ciuarter D. Dack. pastor. ^. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. KINGSTON. ^ F^rhest date. A tew Baptists met June 17. j840. FarlKst «^t^ ^^ Gilmour. of Peterboro , and agreed to mvite Ke- -vi-.^ to organize them into a church. 75 M pel i^atc of ur^anuatiun. July „ ,«. f " W'.rri, \7; "• '•^"'". Ellen Ang,,., j, ,' . Mrs. Kauli,,, „, ' '"'f; '^ "°' ^^^--decl J-^. Lainy. "'"'^'''' ^"-^'"t. |:.A.. Cast. , - Bap,,., ,,,„.^^^, „, ,,, « , .a,..s, ,.,„, ^. lofiM- a^ ■ ^^^'^"'tM was open. For 7^ •it «eason of 1843 and the following winter, thr Kc. Mr l.aiuion, who had been a missionary ainonj^ tlio ^i\ Nation Indians in tlu- Tnscarora Nesirvc. ^u|)- I'l-.i the c-huroh for some linif. He was an ahk-. .;• 'il\ man. and an instructive preacher. The meet- '!„s were then held in the preaching; room, the sec- ond storey of a private house, on the west side of i! I'c Street. There was no orj^'anization. in tlic ; nth (jf July. 1845. the Rev. David Marsh arrive verv decided in his views of baptism. Amont,'- ' -e who were led to see it their duty to be immersed 'r Miss Langlois. granddaughter of a whole-hearted Methodist and pioneer of Quebec, now Mrs. John Glass. Quebec, and Miss Maggie Glass, a member of .^t. iidrcw's Church. Quebec, and still living, baptized by 'Ir. Marsh in the St. Charles River, near the Scotch •ri(ige. in the summer of 1846. In 1854 certain rules ■1 regulations were adopted for the guidance of the 77 fl iZ (L K r-r -f - ''^^' ^PP''^'^^i«" ^vas made l,v the Quebec Church tor admission into the Ea.icrM Association. TIms, after some delay, was acceded tu <'n cond.tum that no unbaptized persons should hj U'ceiveo to membership after the reception, but with he understanding that thos already in the m',„- berslnp „t the church, embracing, some of the m.Kt spiritually minded and useful, should not be requir- 1 to be baptized The Rev. E. J. Stobo, for some ti,;. olleague of Mr. Marsh, elticiently filled the pastorate John Alexander, pastor 180-1898. f \ 10 \, ISLINTON. ONTARIO. The earliest date of origin of church, |une ,«,> Organized. May 3.. .879. First pastor and deacon:.' Kev. James P.rook: John Lamount and Alexander Mc- nlfht ^vn •''"'.'''" ^^^'^'''' '" '«^^''ty. Jonathan nrh. S. \V. R.ngham. Mrs. Burton, one from Great Britain, others Province of Ontario nr,- ^''aT-i/'T'' '"'' ^^ • •^^'"^''■^' '^'^'"^" '-^^ ""-^^i""- arus Millard started at Willovvgrove. in the Town- ship of Ktobicoke. two miles west of W^eston. and jrc- tmg a house and church built, travelled through the surrounding townships, preaching wherever there wi. .ni opening, for about two years. His brother-in-la^^ James P.rook, came from England, and taking hi." place, he moved to Rice Lake. Mr. Brook took ur, the work, going as far as the township of Caledon starting churches in Brampton and Cheltenham, al^-, two m T<.tobicoke. one at Willowgrove and one tw., miles west of Islinton. They were sent out as mission- aries by the godly George Muller. of Bristol. En-- 78 I'ul. They did not have a salary, but (jnly what the , libers chose to t^ive them. They were also opci iiiuinion. (Jur church did not join the Toronio \ -iKJation till June 1S78, when Pastor Brook vva^i uiiting unable to preach to us. If he had joined the TiiroiUo Association when he first commenced hero. il; > part of the country would have been nearly all liapiisl, as there was no other denomination established Iah. S. \V. Bin'fham. church clerk. P I'OPLAR HILL, UXTARIO. (E. J. Stobo. Pastor.) •«s-. Date organized. March 6, 1843. I'irst entry on tliiirch records, March 6. 1843. I'irst pastor. Rev. \'. 1 ;i>twood. First deacons, Thomas Treharne. Benja- iimi Xavitz. First baptism. 1842. Place. Lobo Town- >liip. Person. Mrs. Hannah Woodman, The pioneer I'aptists in locality, Mrs. Sophia Zavitz, Strathroy; Mrs. Malcolm Gray, Mrs. Hester Zavitz, Poplar Hill. The Poplar Hill Church was originally known ns >rr(ind Lobo Church, is a chdd of First Lobo. twenty- •;\ members l)eing dismissed by that church to form tlu new organization; two of the constituent mem- 'I'.is remain in fellowship with us. For ten years the '! lurch records are very imperfectly kept. Previous 'M 1850, the church was served by Revs. N. Eastwood, S Vining, S. Mabee. L Elliot, I). A. Turner. Wm. \\ ilkinson and others. The first building was erecte worth. 1845; ^^- Cleghorn, 1848; J. R. Nesbit. 1834; A. Scott, 1857; P. Clerehew, 1861 ; T. Henderson, 1864: J. Grant, 1875; R. Trotter. 1888; S Sheldon. 1889: W . H. Cline, R.A., B.D., 1891. At the jubilee in 189;,, S. Dadson i)repared an interesting "Sketch of the o"- .ganization and growth of the Paris Church, 1843-93." 80 UK' re> .U' iu BROCKVILLE, ONTARIO. (J. C. Sycamore, I'astor.) larlicst origin of church. 1844- i^^^t pastor. Dr. a. l.-irst deacon. Thomas Smart. ^^^ y;;^'^^ church became disorganized. Ihe .)ld church ,,r(ls were then lost. \11 the old members arc either dead or removed u Mrs. Dr. Boyd lives in California. Mrs Brooks. nti.ed bv Dr. T>oyd, resides in Rochester. N.^ A :].ntation'from the Baptist Churches m England. vi>- I'.aptist families in lirockvdle m 1835. PORT HOPE. ONTARIO. The earliest date of origin of church, 1845 Org^n- „,a ,855. I'irst entry on church records, June „, ,8SS. First pastor and deacons, Rev. Hoyes 1 inv.l, Robert Morton. William Craig. First baptism, hil' '9 1855. Place, Lake Ontario. Persons. Mr. ;,.„! Mrs. A. Randall. The pioneer Baptist in locality. kcv 1. Kaird, from Scotland. In" i84<;. Rev. J. Baird came from Linhthgow, Scot- huHl. and began work as a, Baptist pastor. He gathered a .on-regation. and built a small meeting house. He aU,. nKule tours in various directions, preaching and li>,.ring among the people. If there was a church ,. .anized bv Mr. P.aird. it was an Open Comnninion ( iM,rch. In 1855. there was a re-organizatmn. and the ,.v.>cnt church came into existence. P. K. Dayfoot. •v-tor. 81 ¥* 1 1 •<•>■• i*<, \ if : Til TALBOT ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. L(»X- DON. ONTARIO. Org^anized. March 21. 1845. First Churcli Re- cords. March 21. 1845. I'^'st pastor and deacnns. Ke\^ James Ing^lis. the first pastor, settled June 1847: First deacons, John Oldripfht, Thomas A. Haines, elected October 27. 1845. First baptism. August 11. 1845. Place, London. Believer, Samuel Sims. The pioneer Baptists in locality: Duncan Bell, James Hit- chins. Tliomas A. Haiiu's. Mary Leonard. Adria Siuit!',. Flizabeth A. Groves, John Oldright. Wm. Wakelvn, Ann C.iry, Elizabeth Diviney. etc. In the fall of 1844. the American Baptist TTome Missionary Society sent, as an exploriuij and collect- ing- afjent, into that part of Canada lyinjjf between Xiaj^ara and Windsor, the Rev. Eleazar Savage, wlio. in March of the following year, succeeded in organ- izing in London a Baptist Church, with a membership of nine persons. The infant ehnreli had no ])a:-li'r for nearly two years and a half after its organization, but had occasional supplies from the Home Mission Society and from sister ehurch«s. The meetings were held in the building now known as Legg's Blacksmith Shop on Talbot !*^treet. .\t the end of the first \iar of its history, the membership of the little church Ind grown to eighteen, and in June, 1847. to twenty-two. when, encouraged by the Home Mission Societv, tliev called Rev. James Inglis to be their first pastor. During his pastorate, eighteen were baptized, fourtcn received by letter and four by "profession." In October 1840, Rev. Robt. Boyd succeeded Ro\. Tas. Inglis in the pastoral charge of the chnrrli During hi^ pastorate a chapel was erected on 1'' .„,ner of York and Talbot Streets, and opened on ; St Sunday in September. 1850. The new chapel Aoon filled with lar,a> congregaUons. and lut^ ; , his four years' service, Dr. Boyd baptized at lea^t :;teW^f^l-sons; forty-six were received by letter. -^i^d-^^c^^^^otas Campbell, who ... . he tme of Dr. Boyd's departure, a dry gooccn. er ,. ,he same year, the sixth pastor Rev. W K ^^^ .Muned the oversight of the church. \U> labor. ., Mninated about August ist. 1865. The seventh pastor. Rev. Jas. Coope , v^l-J - ^ , ,rs later received the degree of D.D. trom m ,,^;:!:;. was installed in his oftKcm^^^^^^ ,M,,. Tn 1875. at the suggestion of Dr. Coope U nn-h invited Rev. R. B. Montgomery, ot Osl--. t„ become his co-pastor. He came to his work m -• , oh and remained in I.ondon till May of 187,. 1 nl'Ju^ ^^- siKtv-eight members with.lrew to •':,^tf:^ Adell^^-Sireet B^tist Church, the numbers Th^r ^ ^T^f r^membe.. as a tin. ^ : .Jthering. The late Rev. Alex. Grant assisted t le nerable pastor in evangelistic services. At the A>- 83 I t sociation that year there were reported eightv-tivt- I.aptisms; twenty-three received by letter, thrJi- ,,„ i*xi)erience. Dismissed to Adelaide' Street, eij^dity: lo other churches, twelve. In June, 1879, 'i^ter a pastorate of over thirteen and a half years, Dr. Cooper was forced by failing health to abandon his charge, soon after going to Kelso Scotland; and on Sabbath, June i6th, 1881. he wont to be with his Saviour. The eighth pastor, Rev. Alex. Grant, entered upon his labors with the church on July 13th, 1879. He caini- in the warmth, energy and zeal of his young manhood. His strongly marked individualitv anu I'ulpit ability, were elements of power. Soon the crowds that filled the chapel began to test its capacity, and the need, of a new place of worship became urgent. '1 he York Street property was disposed of and the present site secured at a cost of $2,400 and the ,>resont building erected, and opened for service in lanuarv, 1H82. Mr. Grant's pastorate was eminently success- ful. On Dec. 28th, 1884, Brother Grant resigned, to assume the superintendency of Home Missions. On May loth, 1885, Rev. W. H. Porter, of ?t. Catherines, became the ninth pastor, and had the liaj)- pincss during his tetm of service of seeing many addid unto the Lord. In July and August, 1887, ten meni- i)crs withdrew to form Grosvenor Street (now Mait- land Street) Baptist Church, and in Februarv. 1888. about fifty withdrew to form the South London Bap- tist Church. In June, 1890, Mr. Porter resigned, and on Sunday, January 4, 1891, the tenth pastor. Rev. Ira Smith, assumed the responsibilities of th'- pastoral office. Rev. Mr. Sowerbv is the present 1)r.stor. 84 I 'm ()K() i:.\S'l". oX'I'AUln. i)aif of orij^in nf oliurcli, Scptcinbt-'r i. 1S51. ( .ijjanized, September 17, 1851. t'irst church rocorils, -rptcnihcr 17. 1851. l-irst pastor and deacons. Klder McLean, Peter Reid, 1. Fell. First baptism, Scptem- 1k 1 7, 1851. J Mace, Bass Lake, East Oro. I'crson, 1-,i;k- I'ell. The pioneer i'.aptists in the locality. I. 1 dl. J. McPherson, Annie Darach, Feter Reid, all ir.iiii Cireat liritain. James (.urrie, pastor. OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO. Ori^anized. April 11. 1853. l-irst entry on church no.r.ls. April 11, 1S3.V l-irst pastor and deacons, Rr\. Peter McDonald. Dimcan McCilhvray. John >lu-oct. l-irst l>aptism, October, 1853. I'lace. Owen S-und. Person, Mrs. liirnie. The pioneer l'.:iptists n, locahtv. Kev. Peter and Mrs. McDonald (^eor-c Nrwcombe. Mrs. W. P.uchan. l-.zra P.nmn and Mrs. I'.mnett. h'rom ( Ireat P.rhain, 3; United States, i : 1 'v ivinces. 2. The earlv P.aptists in this locality were of the old luritan kind, htmest. true, orthodox, strict disciphn- anans and mostly hiijh Calvinists. An earlv entry m ih,- records call the church "a Re^ndar Close Connnun- i.m Baptist Church." Several entries show member, excluded for non-attendance,- etc. The church has 1 nilt twice and is now about to undertake budihnj; op- , rations again. The present membership is about .■30. and is united, eanest and liberal. \V. E. Norton. 85 k 1' (I if 39lt 7^ ST.WM.k CHLRCll. OXTARlO. (^ryanizt'd. 1S54. |-irst pastor and deacons. kc\. .1. S. Rdss. Duncan (iillespic and iJonald Sinclair. iMr.st haptisni. at .\otta\vasa.).ra. I'crson. John Koljcrt- son. The pioneer Haptist.s in locahty. Duncan ( .ii- li'spie and j(jhn Robertson, from Province of Ontario. i'or a few years pr'.'vious to date of orjjanizatiun, there were a lew Uaptists scattered throuj,di the com- munity. They were visited |,y Rev. Alex Mclntyrc. then pa.stor of Manilhi Church! wiio preached to thcui m school-liouses in the different sections. About 1S54. Rt'v. J. .S. Ross, then a student at Woodstock. wa> sent by Dr. I'yfe in response to the re(|uest of thoc feu I'.aptists for a student .pastor. Mr. Ross labored faithfully durin^r i,is summer vacation, and for >mv term followinsv. He was dearly loved and conversi..n> took place, but these were not added to the clnurli tmtil Rev. .\le\. .Mclntyre became pastor. In about two years, a chapel was built in Stayner. Mr. Mclntvro remaininj,^ pastor for three years, when the church Rre\y to number about forty nieml)ers. 'I'he ordain.-.! ministers of the church were. Revs. Alex. Warren. Kobt. Ross. Henry Woodward. Donald McXeil. .\ie\ Mclntyre (second pastorate). A. M. Eley. () C. Care\. T. Tl. Carey and J. C. Dunlop. who has been with u> ten years. Our ])resent membership, ijo. Annie 1\ Cillespie. church clerk. 86 IMMAMI-L CHLKCH. TORONTO. ONTARIO (11. v. Welum. D.U.. Pastor.) OriranizcMl. October 23. iS^)^^- ^irst entry on church records. l-el,r«ary .. 1866 I'irst pastor an. .K.uons, Rev. C A. McNtttf. Brothers Wn^Mu. Latch ,„a Lane. I'irst baptism. April 4. ^^^7- at Alexan.k-. Nreet Church. I'erson. Thomas Ireenum. I vvent, ;,,„stituent members receive.l. Letters from the l.on-l ..reel Church. Toronto. Early members 1 homas lailey and uife. CeorKe Wri.tjht and w, C Henry larsons and wife Wni. Lane. W m. West. \\ m. Latch \\,u. Lailey. Lmma Lailey. Rebecca Ladey. 11. I- M..rse Hoves Llovd and wife. ' Lot boUKdit on Alexander Streei and bu.hhn^^ nectcl at ,n cost of $7,000. A Su.ulay School w:ts f„rmcd Aprd 7. .^^>7. -xteen teachers ^nd tlnrt^.^lu .holars assemble- ,„,.erintendent; W nu Lane, secretary. ^^^[^^^ „ 'asurer; Wm. Lailey. libranan. In .H6<,. he S- ,,av School contributed $37-50 to nnss.ona^^ nnpan • In ,872. r.rother W uu Ih-miltou. under as or Nlmr . „,..,H.l a mission which «rew tnto the College S re t ,'„urch. in US79. l-.rethreu L. O. ^^ ^^ ^ su n ^\.lliu,a-r. under I'astor Deuovan. opened a . uss n .,„ Dovercourt Roa'^^\"^^VT ^St et Mi- nnder Street Church, opened the Sackvdle Street Mi> .1 thT most successful T.apiist .uission started t 'Z.^ A roll of 2CX. scholars within two year, o ..pening. A mission hall was erecte.l at a cost i' 'il> t^'ii \m .1 ■' ?5< P$i .Si.20(). ami , Thomas lU-ngouj^li. 'I'liis mission ilcvi-lctped into tlu' iMomorial Cimroli. In 1887. the old Alcxandt-r Stmt building was ome I'difico crcctcij ;it the corner of WelU'sky and Jarvis Streets, the Lu costing $F 1 ,000 and the building $3o,(xx). Name chaiij^cl to "Inimanuel Church." Pastors: (i. A. Mc.Xiitt, \H(>j-(nj: A. II. Munro. 1869-77; Joshua Denovan. 1878-81^; VV. II. (line. 15. A., i8«p-(;i: Joshiia Denovan (Second). i8«>'-y.?: II. T. \\elt(»n. |).l).. 1895. Janu- ary I, K/K), the membership, mu. McK. Wright, church clerk. IIK.ST BAPTIST CHURCH, WINNIPEd. MAN. (John McNeil. Pastor.) Iti the summer of 1868. under the direction of the P.oard of the Missionary Convention. Rev. Dr. David- son and Rev. Thomas Baldwin, of Ontario, visited Matiitoba to learn the character of the country and ^\hat the prospects might be in reference to mission work. On their leturn they not only reported favor- ably, but advised that at once a missionary should be sent out to do pioneer work and establish a mis- sion. Insurrectionary troubles in the country, and the unsettled state of atifairs politically, prevented any \\v mediate steps being taken; but peace and quietness having been restored, and matters having- assumed a state of calmness, and immigration beginning again to set in, the matter was pressed again upon the attention of the Missionary Convention. A committee ,,, ,,,poinl.-.l to man»t;. the ".att.r and a plan >a^ K. which the support of a missionary miRit ,l,,,se.\ b> which «"= '"W ^^^ ,„ ,,, g„„.ntee,l or thr« y^^—\^^„,„ McDon- "" ''; Ta^ior of the R°st Yarmouth and Spar,. ,,,. ,1,011 pastor of tne "' , ^^^^k. He , I,„rc\ie5, consented to """"f ^^ ;;j ^^ p„^.,ish „„chea Winnipeg .n May^ .8. • -■ «;|Jl'^^ ^u^^ .Clements " "^ J5°™ •'„, He established a regu- '"""• P'"r,„. hf Win ipCK and the surroundinR '" ?""'"Arr six ."work in the country he '""'* >^i .Ontario o canvass ,hc churches for funds ;:"S T ptn w "hip. l<-:niin. in Ajmus.. V ««^ .,« 1 reeular appointment m Winm T-^^ hi'g'm theVorl on,ui,d''n« a chapel. Mean- Sr;U''Srvices were held in the Ten,p.r^« " "" It. Ji^i'zr; "a:'J,in. .:. 'ra-'' >'^- -■ ,,,,.111 of tiic ntw *.iiui«.> cchool-room, ^'•^-.t""'^^'S,*:'fir''reR^.a: Baptist Church .,„ lehruary ?• '»75. *■".";, ^hc pastor was Rev. "' ''"?*M nUlMhevciT constituent members Mexandcr M':'^""=''''-,'''' T "^ Mrs W. U. Dick. ■' ",T ^'^ Mrr"co« Mrs Unkla,er: Rev. A. Mc- \ Hunter. Mrs. ^cott. win. deacons were: , .onald and Mrs. McDonjdd^ ^^ ,o tt: elected in \' ■ ^ X The new "htch buildin. bein, com- \ugust. 1875. A"e T„«P t87<; The first candi- pleted. was opened - J^^^' /^JS- ^^^^^^^^^ ,^^. 'atvs baptized were. ■^"'^^^^^^V;^;^, McDonald, on T.dlan, who were baptized b> ^^^ ^^ i^ ,„e evening of Sunday. January ^3. 876- During its history, the church has ^^^^^^^^^^ P^^. „,,.. Rev. Alexander M^^^^^' ^^^l^'^C .m!;: Kev. A. A. Cameron, from 1882 to 1889. Kev. 89 %■ trii MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART lANSI and ISO TEST CHART No 2l 1.0 I.I 1.25 1^ m 2.8 M t m 1.4 2.5 2.2 2.0 1.8 ^ APPLIED IIVMGE Ib';3 tast Wa.r Street Rocheslet. Ne« York 14609 USA ' "f ) 482 - OJOO - Phone ("!»';■ 288 - 5989 - Fa« ander Grant, from 1889 to 1897. Then followed tuo years m winch the church was pastorless, after the sad removal of brother Grant by drowning. In Seo- Mn'McX^eu/^'' '^"'"^ '""'"^ '*' P'"'^"' P^'*^'"' ^^^• The present membership of the church is about 425. In 1895 a large number of the church members were ^ra,n,,, ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^.^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ Baptist Church of the city. This has been a verv encouraging cause an • '^^ a,",cn.don November y, .«»+ l-torate u.ui. Nov^ - ; «9<5.J^^ ,.„;,,,,^, .igned to accept a pob no Wallace, who and ^vas succeeded by the »-- ^^-J^-^J^^;, ,Ue Chan- also resigned December >, 189,. to --1 ^ ^^^^ ^^ eellorship of McMaster ^ --^.^ •, J^^X ., 1895. Kev. Charles ^^^/^'X^^l. ha. increased to 743 ,.Uh a membersh,p ot ^^'^^ ^ ^,^,^ .^.^k. on June i, 1900. J. i- '-' • COLLEGE STKU-ET, TORONTO, OXT'AK.O. (S. S. Bates, U.A., Pastor.) i„ the fall of .*<-'"^»";i™„:,:jit ,c:' people oi <>'^ ■^'"-- '%u:r;ar rr city. Ihe.. Church, uas .Urec.e.l to .!''^f ['„.",,„„,,,. ami one ,„own as tbe :co.™,m.. v,th^c^^^,^ ^ ,„„,, „„. place o( worship, ^i- ^"''?"'^' ■ ,^ f^^ a Baptist m.s- Vomising field ■- «;:;f.f ,^j'tij:„, of the choice-, sion; yet t,me has •'^'•'^ ™ ^j^ Hamilton, a zeal- ,r„ly Ciod was d,re..,n, .1 ".^ ^, ,.,„„ „e„. ous a.id juduMous '■■"'",'', ..„,„ On Christmas ,vas aided l,v Brother .'" ' J^^^^R^p,, „„ Brttns- ::s ;s,' ^':^ "'^^ ^ ur:LtS^^^ 03 1:11 I ! ,1 In March, Rev. A. H. Tutnan. preached the ftrsl sc- mon to a congregation ot thirteen \t the- formation of the Toronto Lapti.t AIi^m.-u Society, in the year 1872, the itifant nnssion xva, phced under Us directions, Brother tloyes Lloyd ta.- '"^ ^'S^nd cottage prayer-meeting was estabhshcd i, i^,omc of M^rynan. on the a>n.er c>pp^^^^^ ,0 the one occupied bv the old church. On June 1. 8r a Sabbath School was formed under the man- .Cent of Brother \Vm. HamiUon 1 he attendant. n he hrst Sundav was twelve, whu-h mcreased t,> f ^ty-i^>ur the next' Sunday, literally packmg lirot n. Roper's house. From that time to the present it ha. continued' to i"^^^^'f; ^ Llovd preached to In the sunnucr of iH/2. Kc\. n. i-"J> i , com regation of too persons in the common at he S ead o Maior Street, havmg a ntound of earth for h. X Th tirst practical step towards a church home i:S"he purchasJ of a lot by Brotlter h.^ L..ley. Five brethren, viz.. Thomas Lai lex L . -^ ^J^^^ " ^^^ S I'ar^on.. lohn Vaterson. and W m. Lat.h. ma U ihem^elves personally responsible to the contractor, to: p vments upon the erection of the edifice On December t.. .872. the dechcator>- --^^/^^^^ .,. published in the "Canadian Bapti>t. < >" / ^^^^ ' ZX^^7^- tbe organization of the church took p ace R V \ il. M-iro. pa.tor of the Alexander Street Churel ■ prcsulin^. Rev. 11. Ll-d. W m. and Mrs. nl^lhon. Frank F. Roper. Helen J. Roper and thirtv others being the constituent men.bers. ( ,„ Thur.dav evenhig. March 13. 1873- the folUm - ;,,.- HMirche. were represente.l: .Mexander Street (Tm- m'annelK Bond .Street Harvis Street). Farliament Street, ')4 ,,„,„ Street. Vfkvae 1.100 ^^^_.^ ^,^„ ^,,,,,„, rott Hope -"' '--r ana Revs. K. l'-. .Mont^onH-rs tr T Ul^eU and W Stewart ,,^ ,,„, , ^^ ,^i ,875, t'- ^'""^'L,:"; cost of S..OOO. I" ,8W. Ok- .|t,est>on o, n>.^re>^ ^„,„ulere,l. n»*™--'\;'; ,l,c consregat.on wa. "'earn ^^^^^. ^.,„^„. «.> i..> in tlK- directum of irc.tm ^.^^^ ^^.^^ „,,. during off an in.leWedne.s ; « *^f ,,,,,,, effected. tr J the oUl buddntg. I't, 1^^^^^ ^. ,.^„„ ,. '"ronco a lot xvas ,urchas d at .hc^^ ^^ ,,„„,e sn ,- ,„„ We. and Lollege M.. l a !- ,^,,,1 ,l,e ; iued Pian. .or. -.--- .In.. ^^^^^^^^^ corner-stone uas la..l < > tol r ^_^^_^ Se,,ternhe . church IS one of tUc .^.^^^^ ^^^^^^ ,o.t. Ian 1 nihUng an.l iurn.shn.S>. ^- .^ ,,,, UabiUty ot ,here was at the t^me of oP^ ^^^^.^.,^ ,, S.H.ocx.. On April 5- ^^'^'- l ^ ^,,,^ fuUy insure! a.ne to the extent o$T.K^: ^^^^ ^^^.,,,, ,eholais The Sundav ^^^'■"^'^^•i^'f;;^,,hership of the churc has now a-roU of 450- ^b ^ ,^^^^^^,^^ .^^ ^,^. ,, or „ 4,,. Verhaps no Laptut ^ ^^^^ Kin-aoni ;.^ince has aone ,^.-ol^ -f ^^^^^^^^^^ Th. pro^- of Christ, than the CoUege ^ . ^^^^,^^.,,^ ent pastor. S. S. r.ates B.^-' ^^^ ^ pvke. .^-rv. 1 Sahnon. i88o;R.Hohne.. .881..-. •;5 1,1 ■ M 1 > ■ I f$ ^. S hates. uX86. Sunday School suj,erinteiKk-inv <^ud(ly. Henry Bnnes. CLAMAIIS CHURCH, UXTARKj. Ur^ranizcd. iMarch lo. 1874. First church records. March 10. 1874. First pastor and deacons, Rev. lames Ccmtts. H. McFadyen. T. I'ickard. First haptisn.. June 13. 1874. at (ilanimis. Person, Catherine Cam- eron. The pioneer Baptists in the locaHty, Mclntvres Mcl-aydens. McLennans and McLeans, from Great' i'l-itam and I'rovinces of Canada. I-'or many years unity and harmony prevailed and the cause prospered, but of late vears emiijration to the Xorth-West and other parts, toj^ether' with the death of many interfered very seriouslv, and for the last few years Christian Science (so-called) has done much damas:e to the cause here, so that at present the clnirch is in a state of decline. Rev. - Shaw, pastor. J). McLennan. Sunday School superintendent. FIRST AVENUF CHURCH. TORONTO, ONTARIO. Date of origin of church, 1876. Ori-anizerl. November. 1879. First entry on church records Aovember. ^Syq. First pastor and deacons. H F A.lams (pastorX First baptism. November 31. ,879. 96 at tiiidnight. Place, Parliament Street, by Kev. 1-.. M C Botterill. Person, Helen Tolhurst. The pioneer I'.apti'sts in locality. Kimbers. Westons, Adams, Tol- liur?ts, from London England. The cause was commenced by Rev. S. A. Dyke. Parliament Street, in 1876. by mission school work. The church was organized in November, 1879. with thirty-eight members from Parliament Street, and four from' Jarvis Street, Toronto. The Sundav School had been in existence three years at that time, preaching services being held dur- ing the evening. H F Adams, first pastor, was sent by Mr. bpur- geon "from Pastors' College. London, but was refused ordination on account of his open communion vievvs. Xotwithstanding. the church retained his services for two years, when Mr. Adams, much to their regret, resigned. Rev. J. Robinson, from Pinchbeck. Eng., succeeded .and acted as pastor four years. Rev. \Vm. Harvett, from Barrie. pastor for five years, from 1885 to 1890. Rev. P. C. Parker. January i, 1891. When the church was organized there were four Westons. three Tolhursts. and three Kimbers, as charter members. There are now four Kimbers, six Tolhursts and twelve Westons, members. Six hundred and sixty-four members have passed into the church «;ince organization, 392 of these (luring the present pastorate. Of the original thirty-eight charter mem- bers ten onlv remam members continuously up to the present time. Rev. P. C. Parker, M.A., pastor, June, T900. - t 1 - i 97 ! i 4!i ! TO DOVERCOURT ROAJJ CHURCH. TORONTO. ONTARIO. (Jesse Gibson, Pastor.) Date of origin, October jh. 1879, when the mission and Sunday School opened, •)rganizati(jn of churc'i. April. 1881. I'irst pastor, Rev. E. M. C. Botterill; deacons. A T. Gregory, J. Hewlett, l-irst baptism. October, i88j. at school-honse, behever, John Skelly. The pionecr Baptists in locality: Owen Jenner and wife, A. Bathe and wife, honest Roberts and wife. \Vm. Westbrooii; and wife, John Thomas and wife, A. 'i\ Gregorv and wife, Mrs. Reading, Mrs. McLellan. Mr, Cummings and wife, originally from Great Britain. This church. like so many other of our Baptist Churches, grew out of the Sunday School and mission. Six scholars assembled on the first Sunday, viz.. Lillie West- broom. Earnest and Charles Gregory, Laura and Bertie Thomas and Lizzie Batho. -The school pros- pered from the start, and at this date, June, 1900. has the largest average attendance of any Baptist Sunday School in Toronto. The school has been very fortun- ate with its staff of officers and teachers. S. J. Moore, superintendent, eighteen years; Miss Alexander, treas- urer, fifteen years, and E. H. Roberts, secretary, twenty years, have worked in unison with the teachers, Thomas Lailey, of the Alexander Street Church, donated the corner site on which the church and Sun- day School Hall are built. Pastor Denovan. at the Opening of the Sunday School Hall, preached from the text, "I, if I, be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." In 1881, Rev. E. M. C. Botterill took pastoral charge. 98 „, resign..! u, .he early ,..rt of ,884. K.v. J"''" ;';^^-- „ler Tvas invited by the church u, Apnl- '«';-•'; erected 'rUc corner-stone \va> laid by i..rouici *re;s:":h„inl-..a.",-.i..... Hi. i,caUh faiUn,, nco- e.silatcd retirement ,,,,,,,,,„ (U'eslen. fluirclii. In ,8K(.. the n.isston n, 1 ark.l.de (W eMU .as started, an,, a chnrcl, orsam^d ,n ^S/' '",,,, ,„e Sheridan Avenue M.sM..n «»; "^;^'; ' ,,,„i,^.,,. devdoped rapidly and m ^'l "-l ' ^' , ^^ 'r^Ktion The constituetit n,en>bers o, he \\es >ro . were ircn, Dovereourt Koad Chur •™'"'; ( ,„ ,he missionaries and '"^"'^^^'^ ^i^ i„ Dovereourt Road are: M'-^^,;^'^?f"^^^^^^^ '„° ,m the India in Septen,l,er. ,89.; ^^'^.^ ?'"'^„f" pastor in I*'^Vd'ti?s "of rCh-::: Inla^rMlssi:, Thos. ISv^'f th:Tn,er,ean Baptist Mission on the Con... . Ernest Wismer. now a pastor ... the Umted . Willie Taylor, China Inland M.ss.on. The pastorate was assumed bv R^^;^'"^^ ' i„ May,'.896. He has since May^ ■■ ^^^> J , , ; "^- -"7'^ ^36 .nto the hur h. Pastor-,^^J ^^^ ^ nenovan (M.ss.onV .8/9. >- •", ^^ ^^ .i„ndav ,.,„„ Alexander, .884; J«=^ ^■''' °",i, ^fg^,,: "w,n. School superintendents; E, O. \\ mte, 107 Wesbroom. 1881: S. J. Moore. "^'*- 99 .( fr 9:. '11 MI-.MOKIAL (.III Kc II. 'I( »k( >\"r( ). < ).\'r.\KI(). ( I. r.. KiniUMh. M. A., l'ast<»r.) TIk' Miii'i'iial H.iptist (.'luircli is a nmnuim'nt ti> till' i'.aptist |)riin.i])k' of (k'inocracy f()un«k'(l cu tin ti'xt. ■■< )iu' is \t>ur iiiasttT. even Christ, and all yi- ati. brethren." 'This oluireh was started hy IMytnoiitli Ih'cthrcn. one of whose stronjj^ foundation-stones i> this doetrine t»f the e(|uality of believers; the niissi»)n was takiti over from the brethren by l^aptist, so-called, "laynu-n"; it was carried on vij.jorouslv by l'ai)tist men and women who worked six days of the week for their bread and butter and on the seventh, at consider- able sacrifice of ease and time, .spent themselves cheer- fully for the needy folk in this section of the city; and the first pastor of the small and struggling Hock was a l»ai)tist i)rinter, who had been converted some time before, and who divided energies and time at first be- tween i)astoral work and the printer's case, until the work grew and required his undivided attention. 'I'he first superintendent was a Baptist grocer (Mr. Pugs- ley), who has since become a successful evangelist. No priestly hand had to do with the begitming of the work or its establislnuent. This church is another monument to the value of Sunday School work. ( )f the many Baptist Churches in the city, with two exceptions, all trace their origin to Sunday Schools. Brother Thomas Bengough may be considered the "father" of the Memorial Church, so far as Baptists are concerned. On May 24. 1885. the Plymouth Brethren offered their Sunday School and mission to r)rother Bengough, if he would carry it on upon Baptist principles. This he covenanted to 100 < ' t was imid to the i i>iinmiii iv.ii,.< sr „;:• ,.„r' .his ,>■„.,„,„ r.r..,iK-,- ;'--.;::- ',„,,^ |„sl,„a l)c.n..va,. «u-..ura!;e.l i1r hr »" , „,,rw. r.n,.lKT Ahl."U was "I'l';""'-',^ ;,;, r'',,,.. r,,,„|HT I'ugsU-y. s.,,Hn..u.M.k.« UU m |.-,rs.l.r,.„k. Will.an. Davus Jr. a > 1 .\ i^ ■ ,„r,„c.l a o.m,ui..cc ... .each "" -^ ^ ''^ „„, „r..,. is.er its affairs. The nnss,.m »'" /■" ' '■^.,; V, , n, (nuu.l ,K.ocssary to bnj <'^ ""'\' \,„„,,,, „,,s or«ani.>-l m „„„li,.us n>iss,..n hall. .\ ^l>u su-saii.k-r ,8W will. .hir.>-.„„c ...cmhc'.s. ;;;'",,, „„,„„„. aging oo,.......l«- above i.io...''.'"' ^ churc'a was ,USo the S-day School un.Uhe^.^^^^^^p^^„,^,, firmly established. J*"; =''" "Y-.^hers and scholars, and now has a ro 1 of o;" 3°° ';'^,'^,' ^iss XclHc Havie-. service ren.le.ed to ">'• -^'•;*;;-: ^„„, ^nnna navies. •n,e bereaveO parents. W tlhan •' ,., 1,,^,^ erected the present -^^^'^^J^' ,^P:7 .la„«hter. ehnrch to the ^^^'^J^ "^ ch'ansed iron, the the nanu- dI the cnu^> ^ "Tecumseth- to the -Memonal. 101 I i 'T 'i\i WALMER ROAD BAPTIST CHURCJ, TORONTO. :~£'ftiu^ Early in the spring of 1889 the Rev. Ehnorc mrris who was then pastor of Bloor Street Bapti<;t Church, heheved that there was need of a new church m the north-western part of the city, and that good work nnght be done in that district. With other brethren he looked over the field and decided that W aimer Road was the place for the location of the new cause, immediately after this was decided upon Mr. Alanson Harris, of Brantford. generously came forward and purchased the lot. paving therefor'S7.6oo J n April Rev. Elmore Harris resigned the pastorate of Lloor Street Church, to take efYect on the 15th of ( )ctober. and a meeting of those interested in the nev project was at once called, and a building committee ^vas appointed and steps taken to proceed with the erection of the building. The edifice was completed m October. 1889 and was opened on the 20th of the m( nth. the Rev. T. H. Pattison, D.D.. of Rochester, preaching, and the opening services were continued on the Lord's Day. the Rev. E. ludson. D.D.. of New ^ork. preaching. The success of the cause was as- sured from the very start. Sixtv-two persons re- ceived letters from Bloor Street Church, and at a meet- ing held in McMaster Hall, on the evening of the 8th of October, the church was duly organized. Rev. Elmore Harris was called to be the pastor r.nd brethren Eli Poole, Wm. White. G. B. Meadows aii'l T. Le P. Laine were chosen the first deacons i-rom the day of opening down to the present time the history of the young church has been one of con- tinuous advance. TOJ In the autumn of 1891 it was decided that increased accommodation was necessary. Two generous friends ,.{ the cause, namely, Mr. Alanson Harris and Mrs John Harris, came forward and offered to pro- vide the means for the erection of the main audience room Through the generous gifts of these friends the present building has been erected for the worship of God. at a cost of $70,000. The new building is ( iothic in design. It is the largest Baptist church edifice in Canada, as far as accommodation is con- cerned, being capable of seating 1,540 persons com- fortably, while accommodation can be provided xov 2.000. , ... A covered way connects the church at the rear with Sunday School hall. The lighting is chiefly by electricitv. , The new church edifice was dedicated on Sunday. November 6th, to the worship of Cod. The Rev. A. T Cordon, of Boston, preached in the morning, choos- ing for his text 1 Tim y. ^S'. "That thou ma>-e. kiK,w how thou oughtest to behave thyself in th. house of Cod. which is the church of the living Cod the pillar and ground of the truth. ' In the afteniocni Rev Wm. Patterson, of Cooke's Presbyterian Church, preached from John 12 -.3- "And L if .I- ^^ ;^'^ from the earth, will draw all men unto me. In tht evci - in- the Rev. Dr. Cordon preached from Heb. 9 : 24. the theme being "The Three A's. Atonement. Advocacy. Vdv nt." Fullv 2.000 persons were present an . Mesdati.., kary Knigbt. Anna Uenhob,,. .1-^- . ';J"P'<=.[„^, ,„„„. The work bas moved along very slo^^l.^ . ' "■ " ^" ber 1; at present is abo.tt thirty. A b-tm udM.tOe .bapef was built in .*J7^ at a cost o ,^a S. «x,_ .or cverythtug ~"-Pl«';, Jl^ere a le ^ 5 . ^^ .^^^ „n the property. Ihere "»* '"^J „,„ rt^„„,„. :-;r^rp::srxt"£K^.-- ;:r;i^c1 t>^^rT^;r Mrs">rs''Te.up,er. '""t^-Tbe bitter persecution that cmn.euced ., TudeahTth first, against baptized believers, has not around the wide world. As the ^^^^^! .. shall be hated of all men. for my name s sake. HALDIMAND. (The oldest Baptist Church in Eastern OnUrto-^ Originated in 1785 ^y ^^"^^"/'■^"^""^r'Ts or: a^e eighteen, from the United States. He ^^as i^r 105 «: «; y M m dained in 1789. Church organized, 1798. First pas- tor, Rev. I'eleg Card, 1818. First deacon, Moses Hinman. First baptism, Ephraim DooHttle and four others, 1816, in Lake Ontario. First pioneer Bap- tists: Revs. Winn, Crandall, Hultz, Turner, Roots, etc., from the United States. In 1812-15, most of the male members were engaged in the war. D. Wait was pastor from 1820 to i860 at various periods. For five years there were no church records. B. Farmer was ordained in 1822 in W. Winter's orchard, and a waggon was used for a pulpit. After the war, the church had 200 members, there being no other Bap- tist church in the county. For fifty years it has been receiving and dismissing, sometimes fifty a year, to build up other churches. Nearly 1,100 have beea received into membership during its history. A small log house. 12 X 16 was the first church home. The old stone fire-place and back wall can still be seen. This was the first public place for preaching the Gos- pel in the Township of Haldimand. The houses of Baptists were always opened for meetings before public places were erected. Ephraim Uoolittle. baptized 1816. died in 188,'. sixty-six years after baptism. Sister Lucy Fish. hn[)- tized in 1818, died in 1900. eighty-two years a mem- ber, age ninety-five. 'J he Centennial Services (1798-1898), were held iAIay 22, 1898. 'J'he late Rev. E. W. Dadson, D.D., of Montreal, preached. The present chapel was erect- ed in T824. The old church records are deposited with the Historical Department, McMaster I'niversitv, 'loronto. Piatt Hinman, deacon, member of church fiftv-eight veors. May, 1900. 106 GRIMSBY BAPTIST CHURCH, OxNTARIO. (L. Brown, Pastor.) In the year 1798 Jonathan W'oolverton came to (irimsbv from Baptistown. N. J. His ancestors had erne out fro.. England to be free from the rehgious persecution dt ...ig the time of James H. He came to Canada before the time of railways, and before even -ood public roads were made, so he hired Capt. W al- Ters to take him upon the Hudson river into Mohawk, down the Oneida river into Oneida lake, thence to lake Ontario and so on to Grimsby. He assisted his friends there in buildmg the Church of England, and when he died thirty-two years later the funeral sermon was preached in that church by an aged r.aptist minister. Elder Hill, the first and only instance when such a privilege was granted. Jonathan Woolvcrton often entertained at his home German Baptist ministers wlio were known as Tun- lards and wore long beards; but usually he attended the old r.aptist church at Beamsville. Elder Oaklev preached occasionallv at the (^Id W'oolverton schi..)l lumse at tirimsbv. He was an l-nglish Army (Officer who was converted by the Holy Spirit, and peoi)le thoucrht it verv foolish of him to leave the established church and join the despised P.aptists. He died in the harness. Then we had an occasional visit from other Baptist ministers, viz.. Elders Strait. Griswold. Silver. Potterfield. Perrin, Mackie and Gilchrist. Dennis Woolvcrton left $300 in the hands of his son to assist the Baptist cause, and soon after, about 1874. a Gospel Hall was built for Sunday School and praver-meetings. Dr. PTooper often preached on week nigiils. until, in 1877. a I'.antist Church was formed, the outgrowth of the Sunday School work 107 %i^ t ' The First published Baptist Statistics. D n The \ S I'v N B. Association met in Sackville. N. B., June 25th, i8,o; and for the first time published minutes of the meeting. Theodore S. Harding, Moderator. Cliu rches. I Elders and Messengers. i . , J . Mem- Added, bers Digby, N. S Lower Grenville.N. Upper Grenville, N Coinwallis, N. S.. . Horton, N. S. Newport, N. S . • Onslow, N. S Amherst, N. S. . • Digby Neck. N S . Salisbury, N.B.... Sackville, N. B... Waterburv, N.B. . Prince William. N. Wakefield. N. B.. B lames Maring do Thomas Ansley Edward Manning j c Theodore S. Harding. . }J Edmond J. Keid I \ Peter Bishop ! /William Smith \ George Dinnock (Nathan Cleaveland y^ Thomas Lynds f Thomas S. Black (William Freeman , Peter Crandall . William Linton . Joseph Crandall .Elijah Estabrooks L. Hammond 44 14 II 4 I 2 84 63 60 53 56 270 90 36 15 69 46 55 50 37 22 924 Missionary Facts ond Figures. Great Britain. United States. Canada and Europe have ^ . . 249 Missionary Societies _ ^Q^g Stations in Heathen Lands 15,000 Out-Stations " " ".695 Missionari-is 64,299 Native Laborers ' .1,121,699 Professed Followers. ••;••••■•; . . 919,478 Under instruction in Holy Truths^ ,,. . 812,988,678 Contributions to Foreign Missions * -^ 108 THE FIRST BAPT^^NAHV TO THE Atnca. :5even y (lansres David (^.eorse baptized first convert in the Ganges i^dVR i. sionaries have continued the work which 1^=''"' .^ ndhTs little band of Baptist brethren -- Hahf.x. ^■^ThniroTtvid =""^ '-^e^r^^^ reasonably have ^^«"b\^^ f ' -r^^^ Rippon, D.D.. ^rx::nr^s.tt^%^^^ Baptist Annual ^f^^^^^lXr^ ^avid account to be -^-^le. / ^ h. .^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^. George was conNerteci b> , ^^^^^,^ Brother George Liele iron tVie te „ie." He was baptized m a null ^trean 109 ^i '.1 m ;3C M others. God hail cikIowccI him with the pft of preach- ing, anil at Shcll)ornc. N.S.. he built a platform in the open air at hrst. and shortly afterwards a meetini;- house, and proclaimed the (iospel with power. ( )ii Christmas Day, 1790, he baptized a number of con- verts in the creek — in a few weeks he baptized ninr more. He administered the Lord's Supper once in two months. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Baptists from London, England, assisting him in his work. His church soon ^rew to fifty members. He jjreached ai. Liverpool. X.S.. and made many converts. Mr. Chip- penham, companion evangelist, of Annapolis, N.S., bap- tized many converts at Liverpool. Brother Jefif Dexter joined in the evangelistic work. A mixed communion Church was formed. David (".eorge crossed the 15ay of Fundy and preached at St. John with success, and baptized tea converts. He sailed up the River St. John to Fred- ericton. N.B. There he preached and baptized a multi- tude of believers in the river on the Lord's Day, at 1 2 o'clock. At Horton, N.S., he preached at the church of Pastor Scott, then the largest Baptist Church in Nova Scotia. At Preston, four miles from Halifax, he bap- tized five converts. At Halifax, David (ieorge was invited to go to the new colony of Sierra Leone. The brethren were in grief at the prospect of his leaving them. At first they were very unwilling that he should go. How- ever, after prayer, several of the brethren he had been instrumental in converting, consented to accompany him to Africa. He evangeUzed in Halifax for three wreks, before the final parting, and then he and his little company set sail for Sierra Leone. They were no -even weeks on the voyage, three of his elders ditxl "11 the voyage. He preached on board the ship and had a blessed time. (Jn landing at Sierra Leone, th- brethren erected a mud meeting-house. He made five converts the first year, and baptized them in the river. The first fruits of the (lospel in dark .\frica. On December lo. 1792, on board the ship "York," he sailed for England to consult with the Bapti<^t brethren in London, about funds for extending the work among the heathen. The officiating English dergyiuan at Sierra Leone, the Rev. Melville Horn, gave him a letter of introduction to Christians in luig- iand. In it he says, "Mr. David George is a sincere Christian, a faithful minister of the Word of God. He is connected with Christians of the Baptist profession, but his heart embraces all who love God and ourt Saviour Jesus Christ. His intention in visiting luig- land, is to see and converse with Christians, and par- ticularly to acquaint himself with Baptist ministers; hoping by this means to be still better qualified for administering the Word of God. When in London, David George visited Dr. Kip- pon. at his Baptist Church. He was introduced to Rev. John Newton (Cowper's friend). Rev. Mr. Scott (Bible expositor), Rev. Richard Cecil and other min- isters. Governor Clarkson, of Sierra Leone, testified to Dr. Rippon, that he "esteemed David George as a brother, and that he believes him to be the best man, without exception, in the colony." Such is a very brief outline of l^avid George the missionarv. Baptists of Nova Scotia will mark with gratitude this high testimony to one of their own brethren, by men HI ? • III occupying liigh stations in the State and in the Church. ^ndniark ftfrther, that all ^^^ ^^ ^V ^ ^ curred before W ilUam Carey reached India, thu. gu- i„g Canadian Baptists the undoubted right to be con- sidered as the first of their denomination to send the ( io'^pel to tlie heathen in foreign lands. 1^. u. \\ . ? AMERICUS VESFUCIUS T1MP.\NY. Uiorn Dec. 21, 1840. Died in I.ulia. Feb. '-9, i8«5.) He graduated from Woodstock CoUege in ^^-^P;^ "« J .867. 5n the 15th October, m the same year^ he w . n,arr.ed to Miss Jane Bates, eldest ^-f \l.;\erCaiada Hates. <>" tlK.^4th of the same m^^^^^^ ^^.^.^ for India, and arrived at Nellorc ^^^y- ■, ,870. he and Mrs. Tin.pany returned to Canada 1 1 11.- flipme was leSUii. lu ma preached. 1... 1^^" ^^^ . \^^ y,,,^, ^lought that in a tew claimed, "Sun of m>^o"l. " ; , ^^^ ^,,,,nth of that '^^ '' Hr^tri^:^;:^ ^nt;;^. He was bur,ed at ni.ht u, ir n Beech hunied the funeral arrangement, ,, torchhght^ ,J^',,l;e of the .disease, cholera. The funeral on account of ^he "a ure o, ^_^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ p.ocess.on was r> larg . ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^,^^^^^ O,^ a^'no^U^re are uS^. and in another tive years I Llinstians. ^^^ ^^^ ,de. C„;=l precious memory. 112 Increase of Boptists compared with the increase of Populotion. I.I:.NSIS OF 1871 Moritime Provinces. IMII'tTI.ATlON 747.415 880,646 Cll. MKMIIERS HAPTIbTS. 27,981 42.777 Increase of I3aptist Church members — 53 per cent, increase in population say 18 per cent. P CKNSl-S 1)1 1851 1891 Ontario. POPULATION 952,004 2,114,321 Cll. MEMUKKS H.M'TISTS. .9,000 31.396 The population increased in 4 decades — 122 per cent. The Baptist membership in same period — 249 per cent. Quebec. etNSfs oi- 1851 1891 POFDLATION. 890,261 i.4S8,535 CM. MUMIIbHS BAPTISTS. 353 1.637 The population increased 67 per cent, in 40 years. The Baptist membership increased 364 per cent. Manitobo. CKSSrS OK POPfI,.\TION 1.11. .MK.MUERS IIAPTISTS. 1870 18.995 i88o 62,260 162 1890 152.506 I 043 Readers quick at figures will note the increase. NOTE :— The population figures are Government official figures- Meml>ership from Year Books. 114 Increase of BaptUti in Canado. I-SOO 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 i860 1870 1880 1890 1900 MARITIME PROVINCBB. LAIN IN MEMUK »H ,„.:C.\I>K. 600 .Ji4 •.7S5 4.»- J.435 4.»'33 9.353 13.037 16,629 27.252 34,062 46.215 OAIN IM DI.CAPK. 2.628 5.252 3.684 3,602 10.613 6.810 12,153 ^taTf^T^^^^^-adl^^ AC 3000 for B.C.-TotaUoo^- Baptist Churches in the United States. Year. Churches. 1639 1770 1790 1812 1836 1840 i860 1870 1880 1890 1900 I 77 872 2,164 5.299 7.771 12,279 21.432 26,060 34.7>^ 50.257 Ordained Ministers. 722 2.143 4.075 5.208 7.773 13.214 16,569 22,706 34.221 Mem»)«rs. Contributions. 64.975 204,185 517.523 57'. 291 1,016,134 1,813,300 2.296.327 3.if^>4.i24 4.354.620 *I2, 195,690. 1 tanuary • lyoo. ■ 'I lii 115 British Columbia Baptist Churches. OrKaiiizeil N.tiiie. 1877 Chemainus, Calvary 1878 New Westminster, Olivet i88j Victoria, Calvary 1S87 Vancouver, First 1889 Nanaimo, First i8yo Victoria, I':mmaniiel 1891 Vancouver, Mt. I'leasant 1894 Vancouver, Jackson Avenue 1895 Chilliwack. First 1896 Hossland, First 1897 Trail, Emmanuel 1897 Nelson 189.S jKaslo rasters 1897. Metii1)ers A. J. Welch. F. H. McEvven Ralph Trotter W. J". Stackhouse W. A tJunton O. E. Kenall Thos. Mulligan P C McGregor J. H, Hest r A. Frost 3eorge R. Welch H C Xewcomb 10 191 201 312 68 109 32 48 35 30 24 ^'OTE -The Compiler endeavored to obtain statistics to date 1900, from the several churches but failed in the attempt. The growth of Baptists compored with the growth of Population in Toronto, Ontorio. rolTI.ATION. 1830 2,869 1840 14,500 1850 30.73 s i860 44..S22 IS70 56,092 1880 86,413 1890 181,220 1900 220,000 L'HfRCH. I 2 2 2 3 6 i6 18 Estimated P>ap£ist adherents 25,000. HAPTIST CH. MKMHKRS H.\PT. MEMIIBRS IN KACH 1000 OK TOP. 12 "5 4 8 250 8 424 50N 9 9 '73' 20 43<^i 5500 24 25 « 116 Comparative Table for the last Quarter of the Century. REGULAR BAPTISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Year. Churches. Members. Baptisms. 144,467 170,284 245.037 'S. S. Scholars 1875 1885 1890 1895 1900 25.942 33.H12 39.690 50,978 60,000 2.157.533 3.059.635 3.701,382 4.705.953 5,500,000 2,251,02^ 2,600,000 A COMPARATIVE TABLE, 1899. The following is a tabulated statement of the average contri- butions from the members of the churches in the various Associ- ations, so far as the reports have been received :— Canada Central Eastern Klgin Guelph. Hamilton and Niagara. . . Middlesex and Lambton . . Norfolk Northern . Ottawa Owen Sound Oxford and Brant Feterboro Toronto Walkerton Western Whitby and Lindsay ... . For Church Purposes. For Pe- nominational Work. ToTAL 7-73 14.27 4-73 7-37 0.54 5 62 3.80 6 58 800 4 32 C.98 12.00 7-83 558 364 598 6.81 1.48 90 .81 1.03 1 15 1-43 .67 .76 2.18 .96 • 34 245 5-59 1.29 .42 1.81 9 21 15 17 5 54 8 40 7-79 7.07 4-47 734 lo 18 5.28 8.32 '4-45 1342 ^".87 4.C6 7.89 '53 8.34 We cannot altogether rely upon this result, because the com- parison is not altogether between the same churches, but it serves the purpose practically. 117 ¥ p X > The First Summary of Manitoba Church Stotistics, 1880. , I I Vi ■si •5 .s! p 0- X * u sa ' z Name of Chvirch I 16 10.^ { '" churfh Wiimip^K*'Alex. McDonald Winnipeg, Man. I -' ^SKmerson.. .^^iJames Anderson Emerson - ^2S-t"newrii John Steward {f^lt^fL Prairie I - 9 High Bh.ff lA. C. Tnrner iPortagt la Prairie Total, 162 ■-_-—-— _—,:::-,-_.^:;r-: I.et the Bapti-s living in 19S0 compare thi- table with the Year Hook of that date and see what they will see. Extrocts from old Minute Books. is:i3 -Upper Ciiiuuld. 4 .\ssociations. 39 Churches. 22 Ordainei Ministers. 12 Licentiates 301 Baptized. 2,211 Communicants. Fifth Wfstt'in Association, lS:}i, at CharlottevilU. 1833- 15 Churches. 9 Licentiates 12 Ordained Ministers. 146 Baptized 954 Communicants Sixte.itth Eastern Baptist Asso-iation, at Cliiitou. {now BeaiinvUle). J tine 2'>th, 183o. 1S34. 20 Churches. S Licentiates 12 Ministers Ordained. 32 Baptized. 797 Communicants Haldimamt Asiociatioii, at Whitby, January, IS-iT. y Churches. r.04 Members 24 Baptized, 118 PATRICK, A BAPTIST. (360-435- ) Patrick's real name was Succathus, the soi- of a Scotch deacon, Hving in the British Province ot" Strathclyde, near the present towii, oi Dnmbarton, Scotland. His father was the son of a British pastor, who resided in the village of Banaven. Patrick's father had a small farm. At the age of sixteen Patrick was stolen from his home by a band of a thousand wild Irishmen, who made a sudden descent upon the coast of the Lowlands of Scotland. He was sold mto slavery in Ireland to an Irish chief. Patrick had learned at his father's Christian home, ' d at the home of his pious grandfather, the rudiments of tne Christian religion. When in slavery he reflected upon his early life at home; his thoughts drove him to prayer: the Holy Spirit converted his soul, and in the new light, with new aspirations, he resolved that if ever he gamed his liberty he would fit himself for a missionary and return to Ireland and seek the conversion of the pagan Irish. In the good providence of God he made good his escape. When restored to freedom he remembered his vow to (jO'1. and at once sought to aciuire knowledge and training for the great work of a missionary. He tells us that in his youthful days his learning was but -^oant. He says: "I blush to-day. and greatly fear to expose my unskilfulness in the use of the Latin tongue. I have Miot learned like others." When a boy he probably went to the Romo-British school in Dumbarton. With little worldly wisdom, but with much of " the wisdom from above," he set out on his great missionary tour through Ireland. Patrick was a plain, godly man. consecrated to the service of God. He was all the Holy Spirit needed lor the work of evangelizing Ireland. In doctrine and practice Patrick was a Baptist. He was baptized in a well upon a confession oi faith in Christ. He baptized his converts upon a confession of their faith in wells. rivers, seas. He made the Word of God his sole rule of faith TIO '1 :i k li I I i f P >. ;m(l piaclici-. Hi- acknowledged no head ot the cliurclics but Christ, lie preached salvation through a crucified Redeemer. He says: " He who gave His life lor thee is He who saves thee." He was sound on the doctrine of Justification. He sa\s: " He believed in (Jod, and it was imputed unto him for righteousms-." ( )n the doctrine of fallen, sinful nature he >;iys; 'There is none that doeth good: no. not one. A man hath nothing in himself l)ut sin." Of confession and baptism, in coinnienting upon the great commission of Christ. " Go ye, make disciples, baptize them." he says. "' Hut in the order, teaching before baptism. It cannot be that the lK»dy shouhl receive baptism before the soul receives the verity (. faith." In his acct)unts of the baptism of his converts he says : "I baptized in the Lord. men. baptized captives, women, handmaidens, baptized believers." but never the tnen- tioii of infants — ud'cr. Of the Lord's Sujiper he says: "" The wine, which the Christ the Lord sent you." " Break the bread." < )f priestly authority I'atrick knew nothing; of l)urgatory, no mention: of the N'irgin Marv, not a word: of bapti>-ma1 regeneration, not a sign. Creeds he rejected. This grand old Baptist was born .V.D. .?6o: died .\.D, 435. Queen X'ictoria made him a "Prayer Book" saint, A.D. 1900. The first results of the church census taken in Toronto on j/th March have just been published for five of the >ix wards of the city. .\s the total number is only 143.001 persons, it woidd appear that the enumeration did not include all citizens, but no doid)t it is fairly representative of the whole as classi- fied imo churches or denominations. The Church of England leads, with .^9.451: the Methodists come next, with .^3.376; the I'resbyterians are third, with J9.972 : the Roman Catholics fourth, with 17.W3; the Baptists fifth, with 0.501: the Con- gregationalists sixth, with 3.7ii7; the flebrews seventh, with \.<\fig\ and the Plymouth Brethren eighth, with 1.095. All the others are under t.ooo in each church or denomination. I JO missionary facts and figures. WOMKN'S MISSION CIRCLE. Organized June <), iHJ<0. V\r>x President. Mrs. (Rev.) Castle. First year. 1886-7— Collections Home Missions $60(194 First year, i88()-7— Collections l-"oreiei Missions 91808 $1,5^5 oj Hill Last year, 1899-1900 — Culleetions Hunio Missions... $i.i')i 08 Last year. |8«>^-1900 — Collections Foreign Mission-.. i.45' .^' Mrs. T. M. Hakkis. President. $2,612 .?9 Mrs. C. J. Pf-.\sk. Director. Ontario and Qocbtc Foreign Mission Society. TOTAL ANNUAL RECEIPTS. 1867. 1868. 1863. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873- 1874. 1875- 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879- 1880. 1881. 1882. I 169 27 2.056 93 3,180 46 ■i.SSi is 3.994 09 2,130 oS 3.341 10 4.580 88 6,012 00 4,914 85 7.921 57 6,699 65 9.145 21 8,948 51 7.687 52 10.596 75 1883 i 9.690 y6 1884 !»I2.657 29 1885 I 13.820 82 1S86 ! 14.653 65 18S7 ' 15.209 22 1888 .| 19.239 33 1889 19.940 84 1S90 20,042 45 1891 25,968 29 1892 ' 29,280 98 1893 • 30,118 30 1894 27,921 91 1895 : 37.507 31 1896 30.252 47 1897 27.215 68 1898 32.557 01 1899 3'.8o7 61 1900 •• i_'i I ,* 5 -■■ \ ii'i The Women's Baptist Fortizn Missionory Society East. Instituted Oct. 24TH, 1876. f P 3C. rlace. Presidents. Secretaries. Treasurers. ! " Mrs. I,aird Mi.ss Dexter Miss tloyd [Mrs. J. Uenovan.... Mrs.W.H. KUiott iMiss V. KUiott 1^77 Toronto Mrs. McMaster, Miss Morse Miss E. Buchan 187S Hrantford Mrs. Freeland...' " ! 1.S79 Toronto iHSo: " : 1.S81 1H82 Brantford 1883 Toronto iSS4!l,ondon 1885 St. Catherines. Mrs. Ca.stle ... i886iHaniiUon iSRy Avlmer 1S88 Bloor St. Ch.. Toronto I'^Sy Woodstock Mrs. Booker., iSyo Park Church, Brantford iSyi Talbot Street, I.ondon , 1^2 Paris , 1*^9,^ James Street, Ilamiltun i>94jarvis Street, Toronto i^9.S.Peterboro' i~^'Chatham iS97!Calt iS9N Bloor Street. Toronto " 1899 IngersoU Miss Alexander ;Mrs. W. E. Elliott Miss Ellen Davies. " Mi.ss Violet Elliot Miss Moyle. Foreig:n Missions. Converted Heathen Contributions. membreshlp. Presbyterian ' S 865,500, 32,000 Congregational 716,000, 44,000 Episcopal 1 ,398,000, 56,000 Methodist 1,000,000 134,000 Baptist 558,000, 190.000 1-1 122 The Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario : an auxiliary of the B. F. M. Society of Ontario and Quebec. Ycaf ending Oct., 1877: 18781 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883I 1884! 18851 1886! 1 887; 1 888 1889! 1890! 1891 1892 1893 1894 ToApl.30.1895 i8q6 1897 1898 1899 Financial Statistics. $654 07 881 88 1424 55 1535 95 1625 10 2223 g:i 2679 99 2889 45 3401 90 3960 49 4623 74 5146 Ofi 4924 30 S748 44 6654 39 6707 37 7058 21, 8327 57 4252 99 7193 G2 7322 78 6907 29 10383 05 $924 08 . 1530 00 . 1300 00 . 900 00 . 2087 15 . 2470 00 . 2628 00 . 2873 30 . 4546 84 , 4075 00 5780 50 503' 15 4452 67 C940 26 7012 47 7275 18 6615 98 4380 32 8926 73 6971 18 7452 22: 10 1 30 67: ^670 00 -79 00 151 00 314 48 52 00 928 42': 3 41 23 53 63 74 23 66 44 39 56 91 84 48 57 87 197 46 ^52 00 ic; 48 53 82 183 69 67 13 120 00 186 09 88 66 57 56 58 39 41 61 "4 47 48 03 88 93 Deduct am'ts refunded and expended a second time. $106527 17 8104303 7081366 4881799 73*52 00 81366 48 ' 852 00 8106527 17 8102937 22i '1I174773 Total Itirotue «ioft.:;27.i-. Net Expenditure $I04.6S4.95. Aljout one and two-thirds per cent, of the amount raised has been spent i" the work o! the Society, or for everv dollar spent in direct work one cent and seven- tenths of a cent were spent in " Il-nne Kxpenses." No officer of the Hoard receives a salarv. — V. K. ill t f : I') ! \ o J2 V A JC U ■''• : - u< x c H ^. - I > o c 1/5 H I- E i 1x4 a <2 3 c — c« u rt c c E .21,^ - •■!: ..CD ■ '- 5 "rt ./ 'X t:-S o -5 «! § 2 S vS o 2 2 c o o *- ■•-• ::: c e o 5 ^ >6»»o6xoox:-0 r^ t- rn» r>.vC >oO ■* 124 Income, Staff and EvanKclistic Returns of F. M. S. in the World. fi . NATIVI-: I'KKALM 21J09 397 493 f-77 4771 54<>M 99 49 15 9i,()09.8o 54,030.48 I4.30'-Si 2315 1352 73L 2025 I 4o6(/i 1527 •■ IS'OJ 160 ; (1284 All other Countries. Yoial 103 8() i()0,24i.7y 1 1.369- '3. 4398 555 3712 620S3 7217 249 I 171,610.92 4 953 I 4029 : 6 9300 Total Societies Total Organized Churches Total Communicants Total .\dherents Total S. S. Scholars Total I ncome Total Communicants added last year, '99 Total Native Contributions Missionary Physicians, men 421) " " women 202 1 " Total of Foreign Missionaries 13,607! Total of Native " 76.615 1 249 10,993 1,2S9 2<)S 4.327.283 764.684 $17,161,092 83,895 .% 1,833,981 623 87,222 Missionary Training Institutions. England 26, Scotland 7, Wales 1, Canada 3, Aus- tralia 4, United States Germany .\ll other Countries 41 2! t Total -Jll Bible translated into 400 l.in?iiages, or 75 par cent of th? World's populaliuti. 125 SEED TIME AND HARVEST. lloMli MISSIONS. t Ip •^4 KJf^ Mission Hoard. , , churches ,„ „,, V.ar Book for .S<^.-../x. ^ V to M S77 mcm- .n.n. ana v.orons. wul, a nnn.l ";-; ;^ ^^;',;^: ^^..,,i,n U.rs wh.. contr.hutcd dur.ng ^'- >;' J\ ^^ .,1 Sunday ,,. ■ *,-ij -ifipr uavine all tiKir ciim>-" Missions !t<.V/'.>' antr f". "^ Scliool (.'xponscs. llKT.' m il>i5 ■"•".';■';""",„ ,,,,.,, ,„ in cluirchfs. with i„ ,s,,,. .lurc ar. '^^ ""^ ^'', '"^.Xs and ..»<5 "-embers. „ub,isK.d ""«;-';, '7 „''„:;io was c^mCH-e,. in .87S. srrt;-:t;;S'-T;n,.-.o--- present year. Bible Circulation. The n,i.)sh -"■s;,;;i''!i,^¥il?aS' 'Vh''/surs a47r,.ooocop»esof the Bible ana New ^^^^ ^^.^^ ^g^. languages or dialects. 126 MINUTES SECOND ANNUAL MEETING Ol THK BAPTIST MISSIONARY CONVENTION OF UPPER CANADA MEIU IN THK FlKST ChURCM IN To\VNSEM>, Fkb. 26, 27, 1834. With the Report of the Band and Constitution for Auxil- iary Societies, male and female. London, U.C. David McKeller, Printek, 1834. Elder Wm. Marsh preached ^Xch. : 3)- Elder Wm. Marsh, Moderator. Elder John Harris, Clerk. Elder L. W. Camfield, Asst. Clerk. Kcsohrd. to raise money ^.uy a Printing T're.s tor the Convention to print a ReliRiot.s Paper. Share, i.o e U. Profit, to he shared e.,nally per share. Cost o, the 1 r n "^ ;.:.,,Hishment. £400. which is eighty shares, not .nclud ng the House. The people of Sitncoe and v.cn.ty agree to pro- vide a convenient honse tor the establishment, tree o, .xpen.. Elder John H.xkris, Superintendent. 1^; H. M. Income .inc. .he da., of .h. Union b..w..n th. Eastern and Wa..m Conv.n.ioni. It 188H 18S0 1H90 1892 I0.68H 46 i7.5>« i7,«o5 i'),S54 27 Hi ■^7 24. V-* 24,147 37 40 2oy4i / / ,S95 i year 189" i8(j7 .... I89S is;:::::: .» 7.294 15 . 22,139 W . 22,29^ I'i . 22,21j 18 22,460 04 Hoard of Ontario anc 1 ( )uebec, organized Treasurer. l-oreinn Mission October ,8th. .Hoo.at l^amsv.lle.Ont^ I)r \Vm Stewart, becretary 1 ^- ^"^ India They reached the field in 1868. Kev First five years. Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh three years. 1897-99 ,;rd Annual Report, total sum " S S. Bates. Chairman \c (i. Brown, Sec; Kev Contributions. .867-7.. averaged...... » 2/^0 8. 18726. 1877-81. 1882-86, 1887-91, 1892-96. 8.040.49 12. 318.41 24,081.82. 31,037.00 31.537.00- raised since 1866^ •464^087 _:^ John Firstbrook, " '' J Vice-Cbairman, K. T. Fox. Treasurer. 1899-1900. Population of the World. Jews Greeks Protestants Mohammedan . • Roman Cathohcs Hindus • ; V.^^iUc Buddhists, Confucians. Taoists.. 9.000.000 1 10.000, coo 150.000,000 204.000,000 231.000,000 250.OCO.000 546,000,000 .\bout one- Total . . ,■".'" ».third of the Worlds Population are I ». ri.risiians Two-thirds at the end of themselves Olinsiianb ^u,;.. century do not even acknowledge Christ. 128 . . 1 ,500,000,000 people who call the nineteenth •cs. BAPTIST PRINQPLES. JUlicf in tho Bi-inp an.l attributes f. God. Tlu- insp.rat.un and D.v.nc author.ty of the bcnpturc. The- Divinity and Atoncnu-nt oi Christ. The Necessity "f KeReneration. TlK- Terson and work oi the Holy Spirit. -n.c et.rnal blessedness of the righteous. The everhvst.n« pnnishn.ent of the w.cked ^^^^ The New Testatnent the supreme and only autlioi. y .„, .. .,ards doctrines, but f;;^^;^..^ in Chr.st. The Church is -^^"^^^^l''^^^^,,,uccr., covenanted -th pastor and -co s th o. .^ together u.r Nvor.h.p and rd-K ^overnnu-nt of The Church is supretne ""'i';^,^';^^, , ^^ ^,urol. ,,.... amurs.a.uln.l..n,^m..^- The pastor is not a prttst or ruit and teacher. M, ,m.,nhcr, oi ,l.c Ou.rch arc c„u.,l>. The State ha. nothing to do vMtn V of religion. , , fretdom of con- Individual soul liberty and untrammelled science. . ■ Christ, in water, Christ's disciples --•--;^!^;J,'l^7 . .Lbrance of me." ohodience to His command. This ^^^ '" .^^ ,1,, The dutv of God's children to work, watch and p coming of the Kingdom of Christ. 129 i n. )] I Our Educational Tnstitutions. p THE FELLKR IXSTITUTE GRANDE EIGNE, QUEBEC. 1800. 1803. 1835- 1836. 1837. 1840, Madame Henrietta Feller was born ac Montagny, in Switzerland. Her father removed to Lausanne, where Henrietta en- joyed superior educational advantages. Slie married M. Louis Feller, of Lausanne. Within live years slrj was left a widow. Her only child, a little girl, had died a short time before. M. aTid Mnie. Olivier, with three other Gospel mission- aries from Lausanne, Switzerland, arrived in Mon- treal. Madame Feller and M. Roussy, from Lausanne, landed in Montreal. God had called her to a great work in Canada. She spent the year in earnest efforts for the enlighten- ment and salvation of the French Canadians, by dome>lic visitation and the distribution of the Scrip- tures. Madame Feller was teaching school in a log hut. She had gathered together twenty-one children. The school-room was 15x10 feet; the school hours, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A class of adults, ages tw. tity to sixty, assembled at 6 p.m. for instruction. June 30th. four of Madame Feller's pupils confessed Christ and were baptized. On September 20th, seven more pupils folK)wed Christ in baptism. They were baptized in a small stream in the woods. A commodious stone edifice was erected and a much larger work carried on, in giving religious instruction to the French Canadians. 130 iHfjS- A new wing was added to the Feller Institute, givmiLi ample acconunodation lor i^o pupils. 1896. Reported that ' over 10.000 Romanists have had the Gospel presented to them during the year." '" Over 100 have abandoned Romanism, and converted to God during the year." KXX). Sixty-five years ago, \v' Montreal, there was m n Madam.^ Feller arrived in one French Protestant known in the Province of Quebec. Now there arc in the City of Montreal alone ten places of French Protestant worship and 3,000 French Protestants. In the whole province there are two hundred places where French Protestants worship: 15.000 Frencli Protestants in the province ; 3,500 pupils have studied at the Institute; 150 French Canadians, men and women, have been sent from its school to the evangelistic work: 22 fields are occupied: 28 mis- sionaries at work teaching and distributing the Scrip- tures. Madame Feller died in 1868 at the Grande Ligne mission house. She has left behind her fragrant memories of a consecrated life to the Redeemer. F>om the titne that the mission house, dedicated by Madame Feller in 1840 was destroyed in 1890, to the present date. 667 different students were admitted in Feller Institute, (irand Ligne. Ninety-nine were Roman Catholics; 203 were converted while in the school: 134 were baptized before they left the school: 67 left to pursue higher studies: 25 have entered the ministry, or are preparing for it now: 500 during that time hare been refused admission for lack of room; 112 students are received yearly in the school as boarders. 15 or 16 as day pupils. G. N. Masse. Grandi Ligne, Province Quebec. 131 ACADIA COLLEGE. Acadia College was luumlcd by the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society in i.S.?8. In the following year application was made to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for a Charter of Incorporation, with the title, " The Trustees, Governors and Fellows of the Queen't: College." An Act creating such a corporation with the powers of a University was passed in 1840. At the next meeting of the Legislature this Act was amended by changing the name to Acadia College. In 1H51 the power of apjtointing the Governors was trans- ferred from the Education Society to the Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces. The developments of succeeding years made it necessary that various amendments to the Original Charter sliould be ol^lanied. In order to avoid con- fusion and bring the Act of Incorporation into more complete harmony with existing conditions, a general revision and con- solidation of the different Acts relating to the College was proposed bv the Board of (iovernors. The report ot the Committee of the Board having been adopted by the Gov- ernors was referred to the Convention. That body, at its meeting in Yarmouth in August. 1891, .^tter suggesting some modifications, approved the report an.l instructed the Gov- ernors to applv to the Parliament of Nova Scotia tor the necessary legislation. Accordingly a bill embodying the pro- nosed alterations was passed by the two Houses at the Session of 1891 and received the signature of the Lieutenant-Governor on the 19th of Mav in the same year. A copy ot the Revised Charter is appended. The College has now ten professors, and an attendance of 14H students in Arts. THE .\CADF.MY. Tliis \cademv is under the control of the Board of Gov- er,iors of Acadia University, wlio. with the advice and assist- ance of the Senate, define its relations to the University and prescribe its Courses of Study and General Regulations, and throuuh the auH-ncv of the Executive Committee and the 132 Principal of the Academy, supervise its govcrnmeni and pro- mote its etiiciency. During the seventy years of the Academy's existence it has aimed not only to provide thorough Academic instruction, hut to mould character in conformity with the highest moral and religious ideals. It has been and is a Christian insti- tution. The teachers resident in the .Academy Home, living as they do among the pupils, exert a constant intluence not only in the direction of application and earnest study, but of politeness and manliness. The following i^ a short historical sketch of the sch()ol from the pen of H. FI. Eaton, D.C.L.. of Halifax: •■ To say that Horton .\cademy was projected in iH.'H by the Baptists of Xova Scotia meeting in .Association that year at Wolfville; that they then formed the Xova Scotia Baptist Kducalion Society, and committed the new institution to its o.-ire: that Wolfville was :^elected as the seat of the School, and that in March, iSjcj. the Academy was opened, is to give indeed a very naked outline of a most wonderful history. To reveal the inner import and far-reaching design of the move- ment it may l)e t)riefly stated that up to this date the Bapti>ts of this province had no in-titution for advanced education ; that they had long felt the urgent need of such an institution; ;md that they had long and devoutly besought God to open the way for its formation. The dencuninatio.i wa< growing in numbers, in intelligence, in wealth, and in a desire to take their full share in promoting the progress of the provmce and in advancing the Kingdom of God. It may be truly attirnud that Horton .Academy was the outcome and answer to years of increasing -supplication to the Throne of the .\lmighty I'ather. Thus it transpired that the institution had its roots in the hearts of the people, and its growth was regarded a> dependent on the Divine favor. It was designed to be a pre- ]\'iratory school in a doulde sense: it was to prepare the way for the establishment of a Ccdlege, and it was to pursue thence- forth its way as a :^cho(>l for tlie preparation of students K.r i.?.^ t \i ?! till' Ccilkgf. TIk' i'(^niKr aim was jiloriuusly fulfilled, the latter Wein^^ WDi'keil I'Ut a> llie years move forward. What the cliaracter of the Academy wa> designed to he may he uiider>toud from a sin^jle paragraph of its prospectus. This it i>: " It slriU he the care of the Commillee to provide etVicieiit teachers for this Seminary, tu whose moral and religious character special regard will he had; and it is con- sidered an oi)iect in every department under the influence of the .'^ocietN. never to he lost sight of. that the scholars and >tu(knts. while actpiiring information to tit them for their \ arioMs stations in life, should he led to a kncjwledge of the true relation of man to his Creator, and of that faith in the l.ord Je>us Christ which alone can furnish a sure pledge of their good conduct in this world and their happiness in ■[■"ternity." ( )n such a foundation was the Academy laid, and oil >uch a fomidation it still stands." The Academy now has seven teachers and a yearly attend- ance of eighty to one hundred. The Ladies" Seminary from i86(; to 1H70. was simply the ladies' department of the .\cademy. In 1879 co-education was ahandoned. and the Seminary organized as an independent in^titiuiou. Regi-itration last year. 1.^7. The progress of the Baptists of America in educational work during this century has heen very great. At its hegin- ning th'^re was hut one institution — Brown University — with property and endowment worth $50,000 and ninety-two stu- dents. At its close there were -'oo institutions, having pro- perty and endowments valued at $44,000,000. and with fully 40.000 students in attendance. Adding to these figures the institutions of the Baptists of the Dominion, we should have _'07 institutions, with educational plant and endowments of ahout $45,500,000. and nearly 41.000 students. May our people grow in piety and spiritual power with advancing culture and intelligence! Unless this he realized, all these institutlt iftiirt til istahli^h our educational wor k in (1: 1) th 1880. Tilt linked with )c wot ilali- hacK tu the year ir*»o. ilie name IniKed the eft"..rt then made is that of Rev. Dr. John Crawford. Even at tiiat early ^taK^^' in the history of this new west, he wa> deeply imi)res>ed with the importance of otahlishin^' a col- leiie for the traininfi of youn^' men for the ministry. L'.y hi- iiersoiial canva-< in the eastern provinces, a consi(leral)le amount of money wa> deemeliip of Rohort Alexander Fyfe D.D.; Moulton Col- Icffe. which hcjjan work in 1S89. and the University proper, which began work in 1890. Woodstock College was known in the early years as the Canadian Literary Institute, and was co-c(lucational. The literary work done put it about on a level with an (Ontario Collegiate Institute of the present day. In addition to this there was a Theological Department. Wood- stock College ceased to be co-educational when Moulton Col- lege was opened, and the present courses of study give pre- paratory training to suidents looking forward to arts, theology, medicine, law, business, engineering, etc. The enrolment in iSoQ-ifHio was 139. A. Lincoln McCrimmon, M.A., is the Principal. Moulton College has a Department of Art under the direction of Mrs. Mary Dignam, and a Department of :\rusic under the direction of Mr. A. S. Vogt. In the literary department, to which chief attention is given, there are the following course?: Matriculation, classical, English, scientific and modern language. In 1899-1900 there were 160 enrolled in literary work and music. Besides these there were lOl taking lessons in art and in the rudiments of music, whose connection with the school was less close. Adelaide L. Dicklow. Ph.M., is the Principal. The work of the Toronto Baptist College was begun in 1881, Rev. John Harvard Castle, D.D., being President. Work in Arts began in 1890, with an enrolment of 16. The same year there were 25 in Theology, making 41 as the total enrolment. In 1899-1900 the total enrolment was 207, 145 in Arts, 48 in Theology, and 14 in graduate courses in Arts and Theology. McMaster Hall, with 138 Z o d H 7. O a: o r" CO O -« the land upon which it stands, was nivcn to the Baptists by the late Senator William McMaster, who during his lifetime paid the salaries of all the professors but one in the Toronto Baptist College. By his will he left nearly $900,000 as an endowment for McMaster I'niversity. The teaching staff of the I'niversity numbers nearly twenty. O. C. S. Wallace, n.D., LL.I).. is Chancellor of the University and Principal ox officio of the I'niversity Faculty. I m li 13 BRANDON COLLEGE. CoKNKK-SlONU LaVIM.. The contract for onr college building has beeii let and the work begun. The contract provides for the completion of the basement storey this summer, and only such further work as we may find ourselves able to provide for. It is expected that ihe Cornerstone will be laid on the 14th July, the day after the close of the Congress in Winnipeg. We want every delegate from the East to come on to Brandon to participate in this interesting event. Provision is being made for a cheap excursion rate. The Corner-stone comes from Nova Scotia, and is Acadia's gift to Brandon. McMaster has sent a beau- tiful oak desk for our chapel. Woodstock is planning some- thing also as an expression of loving interest. These iriani- festations of sympathy and fellowship are most gratifying, and will aid in binding us closer together in the furtherance of our great cause.— /''n'w Canaduui Biiptist, June 25, 1900. 140 u f f / ^ HKNOCRSON A OO. l*RINTtH» a- 10 LoMBAmo ST., TomoMTo ll !«''_ t