The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ity, having about three hundred communicants. About this time, several persons of distinction, including two of theprofessors of Cambridge University, and Lady Moody, of Lynn, becameBaptists, and had to remove from the colony. And in 1644 a poorman, of the name of Painter, became a Baptist, and was complained ofto the court for refusing to have his child baptized. The court withjudicial dignity, interposed their authority in favo
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ity, having about three hundred communicants. About this time, several persons of distinction, including two of theprofessors of Cambridge University, and Lady Moody, of Lynn, becameBaptists, and had to remove from the colony. And in 1644 a poorman, of the name of Painter, became a Baptist, and was complained ofto the court for refusing to have his child baptized. The court withjudicial dignity, interposed their authority in favor of the child. Andbecause the poor man gave it as his opinion, that infant-baptism was ananti-christian ordinance, He was, says Backus, Tied up and whipped, In the mean time, Roger Williams had been to England, bringingback with him a charter signed by the King granting full and entire free-dom of conscience to the colony which the bold Baptist had this fact greatly encouraged the Baptists it did nothing to abatethe persecutions of those who opposed them. Three men of Lynn, inthe colony of Massachusetts, named Clark, Holmes, and Crandal, were. First Baptist Church, Warren R. I. 173 Assocated Baptists 175 convicted of being Anabaptists, and the first was sentenced to pay a fineof twenty pounds, the second of thirty and the last of five, or to bepublicly whipped. The cause, however, gradually progressed, and so much the more,because it was felt to be that which promoted civil freedom, as well asreligious. The prevailing party, in spite of checks from the governmentin England, and of growing public opinion at home, showed no dispositionto give up the contest. We will give an illustration or two of this fact. The town of Ashfield, in Massachusetts, was incorporated by thisname in 1764, but was previously called Huntstown, and a few familiessettled in it as early as 1742. In 1761, the Christians of that towntook measures to organize a Church, and having embraced th
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