He that censures the words of actions of another, implies that he is, in his censure, wiser than the person censured by him. It is as insupportable to determine the truth of God’s plain dictates by our reason, as it is to measure the suitableness or unsuitableness of his actions by the humor of our will...
On October 13, 1792, the Dover Association of Virginia Baptists met at Bruington meeting house in King and Queen County...
The Baptist pastor William Staughton (1770-1829) “was one of Great Britain’s choicest gifts to America. He came to this country fresh from that group of far-seeing men who, led by Fuller, Ryland, Carey, and others at Kettering in Northamptonshire, England, October 2, 1792, had laid the foundation of the first Protestant [Baptist] foreign mission society of modern times...
Almighty God seems to fear we will hesitate to ask largely, apprehensive that we will strain His ability. He declares that He is ‘able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.’ [Ephesians 3:20]...
One day in 1814, while the sixteen-year-old Basil Manly “was walking alone in a cornfield in Orange County, North Carolina, near the Bingham Academy where he attended school, his mind turned toward spiritual things...
