Description
This book, originally published in 1876, tells how Baptists gave feet to their zeal for civil and religious liberty. Read about Baptist statesman John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, who risked life, family, and property for the cause of freedom. Once, while running from the redcoats, he spent a cold night in a doghouse, with it's owner! Discover how pre-Revolutionary Baptists withstood great persecutions, including imprisonments and losses of life and property, to win religious liberty; how Rhode Island, due to its Baptist origins, was the freest colony in America; how Baptists and their fighting men and chaplains won highest praise from Washington and Jefferson; how that, through their moral influence upon statesmen from Virginia, Baptists won the vital provision for religious freedom in the Bill of Rights.
Early American Baptists supply some of the highest examples of unselfish patriotiusm and love of neighbor, because they fought hard to obtain for others libetries that had often been denied to them by means of oppressive laws enacted by fellow countrymen. This astounding record of true bravery will enliven and acptivate the heart of every American who rightly esteems the high price paid for his liberties. You will read this book with delight and with a renewed pride in your rich heritage.
Reprinted by Calvary Publishing
Paperback, 108 pages
