The Baptists and the American revolution . 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
The Baptists and the American revolution . 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 was founded, andthrough it, indirectly, every Bible society onearth. =•= Through the Rev. John Cannes -a * Ivimeys History of the English Baptists, II., 93. M o d W. 112 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 113 twenty-one years of toil, marginal referenceswere first placed in the English Bible,* andCanne was a Baptist minister. And, as a people,we took a leading part in securing and perfect-ing American freedom. Our liberty is nowshaking all the nations of the earth. It hasblessed every section of the mother country,rapidly falling into despotism one hundred yearsa2;o. It has torn down the old throne of theBourbons in France and all the tyrannies thatsucceeded it. It has banished the petty oppres-sors that cursed Italy for centuries, and restoredsome measure of her ancient liberty to the for-mer mistress of the nations. It has bestowedsome gifts upon Austria and Germany. It hastried many times to bless the land that gavebirth to St. Dominic, Torquemada and IgnatiusLoyola. It has reached far distant Japan, andalready it is breathing freedom upon its inge-nious people. And it will march onward in itscareer of victory un
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