- Admission of Members into the Church.--
When a man desires admission into an orderly Bapt-
ist church, he is carefully examined by the pastor
or some other judicious brother in reference to his
repentance for sin, and utter helplessness without the
Saviour's grace; in reference to his faith in Jesus
as his substitute and sacrifice on the cross, without
whose blood his sins would cling to him forever;
and in reference to his knowledge of the teach-
ings of God's word.
- Africa, Mission to.--
- Alabama,--1539.
- Alabama Baptists, History of.--
- Alabama Baptist Conv.--1823.
ALABAMA BAPTIST NEWSPAPERS.
- Alabama Baptist.--1841.
- Alabama Baptist.--1873-74.
- etc.
- Albigenses, The, received this name from the
town of Albi, in France, in and around which
many of them lived. The Albigenses were called
Cathari, Paterines, Publicans, Paulicians, Good
Men, Bogomiles, and they were known by other
names. They were not Waldenses. They were
Paulicians, either directly from the East, or con-
verted through the instrumentality of those who
came from the earlier homes of that people. ....
See Online.
- American and Foreign Bible Society.--This
soc. was organized in 1837 with Rev. Dr. Spencer
H. Cone, President; Charles G. Sommers, Corre-
sponding Secretary; William Colgate, Treasurer;
John West, Recording Secretary; ....
The occasion of its organi-
zation was the refusal of the American Bible So-
ciety to appropriate funds for the printing and
circulation of the translations made by the Baptist
mies. in India, in which the words relating
to baptism were rendered by those equivalent to
immersion.
ANABAPISTS.
The name "Anabaptist" was originally a re-
proachful epithet applied to those Christians in
the time of the Reformation who, from rigid ad-
herence to the Scriptures as the infallible and all-
sufficient standard of faith and practice, and from
the evident incompatibility of infant baptism with
regenerate church membership, rejected infant bap-
tism and inaugurated churches of their own on the
basis of believers' baptism. While reproached by
their enemies with rebaptizing those that had been
already baptized in the established churches, they
maintained that the baptism of believers, such as
was administered by themselves, was the only
Christian baptism, the baptism of infants being
unworthy of the name.
- Anabaptists, The German and Swiss.--
See Online.
- Anabaptists, The Fanatical.--These were for
the most part a result of Luther's earlier writings.
It is remarkable that fanatical developments oc-
curred in connection with Lutheranism, and not in
connection with Zwinglianism.
...--
Thomas Münzer was never really an Anabaptist.
See Online.
- Anabaptists, The Dutch.--We give separate
consideration to the early Dutch Anabaptists, on
account of their relation to the Mennonites, who
still constitute an important party. We shall have
space only for the following remarks. 1. A con-
siderable number of moderate Swiss Anabaptists
when persecuted at home took refuge in the Neth-
erlands and made many converts before the time
of Hoffman and Matthiesen. 2. Most of these were
absorbed by the much more vigorous movement in
which Hoffman's influence preponderated (1529-
34). 3. A small number of Dutch Anabaptists
maintained their moderation even in the time of
the Münster uproar. 4. A still larger number
were restored to their senses after the suppression
of the Münster kingdom. 5. Menno Simon, a Ro-
man Catholic priest, was led through a profound
religious experience, gradually and almost inde-
pendently of Anabaptist influence, to the rejection
of infant baptism and the restoration of
believer's
baptism. After the Münster uproar, the better
element of the Anabaptists in the Netherlands re-
pudiated all connection with the Münster men; and
with Menno Simon as their leader (1536 onward),
soon became an exceedingly strong party. They
suffered persecution under the Inquisition, and
thousands died at the stake, but they finally se-
cured toleration, and have maintained themselves
to the present day. Their doctrines are, in the
main, the same as those held by earlier Anabap-
tists. They reject infant baptism, oaths, the magis-
tracy, the sword, marriage with unbelievers, com-
munion with the unregenerate. They adopted
Hoffman's view as to Christ's body.
- Anderson, Christopher,
"Annals of the English Bible",
1845 See List.
- Arkansas.--
- Arkansas Baptist Conv.--1848.
- Armitage, Thomas, D.D., was born in
England, in 1819.
...the Bible Union, 1856, became the president of.
See List.
- Arracan, Mission to.--Arracan is a division
of British Burmah.
- Assam, Mission to.--On the northwestern fron-
tier of Burmah lies the country of Assam,
- Associations, Baptist.--...in England, about 1653, ....
- Associations, The Oldest American Baptist.
--The Phi. Asso., 1707. etc.
- Atonement, The.--...is a transfer
of our guilt to Jesus.
...is a transfer of our pains to Jesus.
The design of the atonement was to satisfy the
mercy of God.
The atonement was also intended to meet the de-
mands of God's law.
- Australian Baptists.--The earliest mention in
official reports of...1844.
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