David BenedictContents
FIRST DECADE
CHAPTER 1. - Prefatory Remarks. - Five Decades, or Periods of Ten Years Each. - My Travels and Extensive Acquaintance with Baptist Ministers in Early Times. - Summary View of the Baptists about 1800. - No Periodicals. - Old Baptist Magazine. - Mite Societies. - But Few Educated Ministers. - Rise of Benevolent Institutions.
CHAPTER 2. - A Brief Account of My Early Efforts for the Collection of Materials for a General History of the Baptists in all Ages and Countries. - Baptist Ministers of Distinction in the Different States.
CHAPTER 3. - Biographical Sketches of a Few of the Ministers Mentioned in the Preceding Chapter. - Stillman, Baldwin, Gano, Sharp, Cornell, Stanford, Parkinson, Williams, Staughton, Rogers, Jones, J. Richards, J. Healey, Furman, Bottaford, Fuller, Marshall, Mercer.
CHAPTER 4. - On Extempore Preaching. - The Support and the Neglect of Ministers. - Comments on their Various Habits and Conditions.
CHAPTER 5. - Missionary and Other Agencies. - Houses of Worship.
CHAPTER 6. - On the Changes in Baptist Customs in the Course of Fifty Years. - In Church Affairs. - Associations.
CHAPTER 7. - On the Popular Prejudices Against the Baptists in Former Times. - Their Unwise Policy in Some Things. - Baptist Publishers. - No Baptist Press. - Old-Fashioned Pulpits. - Modern Platforms. SECOND DECADE. - ON THE RISE OF THE FOREIGNMISSION CAUSE AMONG THE AMERICAN BAPTISTS CHAPTER 8. - Judson and Rice Become Baptists. - The Triennial Convention. - The Missionary Union. - Rice Becomes an Agent. - The Columbian College, Difficulties About Missionary Money. - Death of Rice.
CHAPTER 9. - The Early Correspondence of Mr. Rice Pertaining to the Foreign Mission Cause, and My First Acquaintance with Him. - Surprising Changes Throughout a Large Part of the Baptist Denomination on the Subject of Missions. - The Anti-Mission Party. Mr. Rice's Correspondence with Marshman and Judson in India. - Letters and Journals of Mr. Hough. - On the Hindoos, by Mr. Ward. - Languages of the East.
CHAPTER 10. - New Phases in the Doctrinal Creed of the Baptists. - The Fuller System Comes into Vogue. - On the Changes which Followed.
CHAPTER 11. - Unitarianism among the American Baptists. - My Investigation of the System. - My Conferences with Some of our Men who Adopted it. - Also with Dr. Kirkland of Harvard University, Dr. Freeman of Boston and others. - General Remarks on the System. - My Conclusions against it.
CHAPTER 12. - On Customs now Generally Abolished, which Prevailed More or Less among the Baptists in Former Times; as Laying On of Hands. - Washing Feet. - Devoting Children. - Ruling Elders. - Decline in the Use of Brother and Sister, and Elder. - Seven Deacons the Gospel Number for a Full-Grown Church.
THIRD DECADE. - ON THE AGE OF EXCITEMENTS CHAPTER 13. - Quiet Condition of the Baptists Generally. - Agitations about Free-masonry and Southern Slavery. - The Troubles which Followed. - The Division of Churches. - The Removals of Ministers. - The Name of Stayshort Applied to Many.
CHAPTER 14. - The Old Triennial Convention. - The Meeting in New York in 1826. - The Board Removed to Boston. - The Columbian College. - The Home Missionary Society Formed. - Dr. Going. - Dr. Peck. - State Conventions.
CHAPTER 15. - The Manner of Settling Ministers in Former Times, and of Supporting them. - Imperfect Support of them. - Revivals. - New Measures. FOURTH DECADE CHAPTER 16. - A New Baptist Register, by I. M. Allin. - A List of Small Literary Institutions. - Manual Labor Schools. - American and Foreign Bible Society.
CHAPTER 17. - The Southern Baptist Convention Formed. - The Causes which Led to this Measure. - New Methods of Conducting Associations. - Comments on the Agency System. CHAPTER 18. - The Old Triennial Convention Assumes the Name of the Baptist Missionary Union. - Diversities Between the Two Bodies. - Some Objectionable Things. - Too Little Freedom for Speakers. - TooLittle Time. - Too Many Young Speakers Take the Floor, Too Often. - Too Long.
CHAPTER 19. - Some Account of My Publications. - Old Baptist History. - By Whom Published. - Difficulties in Circulating it by the War. - Other Works. - All Religions. - Interview with Leading Men of all Parties. - The Shakers of New Lebanon.
CHAPTER 20. - Authorship Continued. - Interviews with Catholics in Boston and Elsewhere. - With Scotch Seceders. - The Lutherans and Others in New York. - With the Moravians. - The Result of these Visitations. - My Last Baptist History. - Post Office Matters.
CHAPTER 21. - Authorship Continued. - My Compendium of Ecclesiastical History. - Motives for Undertaking the Work, to Make a Book for the People; To Give the Framework of Church History; To Bring out More Fully and Favorably the History of the Donatists and Other Reputed Heretics. - On the Term Puritan. - Miscellaneous Matters. FIFTH DECADE CHAPTER 22. - Changes in Meeting-House Fixings and Comforts. - Changes in Church Music. - Organs. - Titles of Ministers. - My Efforts for Ministerial Education. - With Others.
CHAPTER 23. - A Review of all Collegiate Institutions among the Baptists in the United States. - A Review of their Theological Seminaries. - Theological Departments in Connection with our Universities and Colleges, to a Needful Extent, Recommended in Preference to Separate Schools.
CHAPTER 24. - On Religious Newspapers in this Country and among the Baptists. - Difficulties at First. - Too Numerous at Times. - Their Secular Character. - First Sunday School. - On the Rise and Management of our Benevolent Institutions. - On the Death of Correspondents and Familiar Friends.
APPENDIX. - MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES CHAPTER 25. - On Church Organizations. - Arguments in Favor of the Early Christians Copying, in Substance, the Model of the Jewish Synagogues.
CHAPTER 26. - On the Baptist Deaconship. - The Original by Howell and Others Something Wrong in Our Deaconship. - The Scripture Qualifications - Crowell on Limited Appointments. - My Four Years' Rule. - Deacon Jones in the Sunny Side. - Arguments. - The Number 7. - Proofs from Antiquity. - Dialogue Between a Pastor and Deacon.
CHAPTER 27. - Preaching, Preachers and Pulpits. - The First Preacher. - Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses. - The Prophets. - Ezekiel, Ezra - The First Pulpit.
CHAPTER 28. - Preachers, Preaching, Pulpits and Clerical Manners. - Preachers under the Christian Dispensation. - John the Baptist. - Jesus Christ. - The Apostles. - The Early Fathers. - Chrysostom, Augustine, and Others. - Claude, Doddridge, etc.
CHAPTER 29. - On Church Discipline. - The Discipline of the Dutch Anabaptists, so called. - My Early Advisers. - My own MS. on Church Discipline. - A. Fuller on the Discipline of the Primitive Churches. - Five Works Come Out Near the Same Time by Baker, Walker, Johnson, Howell, and Crewell. - Remarks on the Eighteenth of Matthew, on Councils, the Despotism of the Majority, and on Baptist Usage.
CHAPTER 30. - On Various Matters Connected with the Business of Preaching and Pastoral Duties. A Letter to a Young Minister.
CHAPTER 31. - On a Model Church and a Model Pastor.
CHAPTER 32. - Recapitualation. ===============
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