The Baptists: The Story of the Churches

by Henry C. Vedder

Excerpt from The Baptists

The aim of this series is to furnish a uniform set of church histories, brief but complete, and designed to instruct the average church member in the origin, development, and his tory Of the various denominations. Many church histories have been issued for all de nominations, but they have usually been volumes of such size as to discourage any but students of church history. Each vol ume of this series, all of which will be written by leading historians of the various denominations, will not only interest the members of the denomination about which his Written, but will prove interesting to members of other denominations as well who wish to learn something of their fellow workers. The volumes will be bound uni formly, and when the series is complete will make a most valuable history of the Chris.

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

Henry Clay Vedder, D.D. was an American Baptist church historian. He graduated at the University of Rochester in 1873 and at Rochester Theological Seminary in 1876. He was an editor at the Examiner from 1876 to 1894, after which he became professor of Church history in Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, Pennsylvania. (Source: Wikipedia)