The Baptists and the American revolution . ISTDEPENDElSrCE HALL IN 1876. 110 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 111 ists did not desire it, the Episcopalians did notwish for it, it went too far for most Presbyte-rians in Kevolutionary times, or in our owndays when we hear so much about putting theDivine name in the Constitution. The Bap-tists asked it through Washington; the requestcommended itself to his judgment and to thegenerous soul of Madison, and to the Baptists,beyond a doubt, belongs the glory of engraftingits best article on the noblest Constitution everframed for the government of mankind. Co
The Baptists and the American revolution . ISTDEPENDElSrCE HALL IN 1876. 110 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 111 ists did not desire it, the Episcopalians did notwish for it, it went too far for most Presbyte-rians in Kevolutionary times, or in our owndays when we hear so much about putting theDivine name in the Constitution. The Bap-tists asked it through Washington; the requestcommended itself to his judgment and to thegenerous soul of Madison, and to the Baptists,beyond a doubt, belongs the glory of engraftingits best article on the noblest Constitution everframed for the government of mankind. Conclusion. The Baptists, through William Carey, havegiven modern missions to the Christian Roger Williams the Baptists foundedthe first State on earth where absolute libertyof conscience was established. Through a letterissued by the Rev. Joseph Hughes, a Baptistminister, advocating the establishment of asociety to circulate Bibles, a meeting was heldin London, May 4th, 1804, at which the Britishand Foreign Bible Society wa
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