- Davies, Benjamin, Ph.D., LL.D., was born
1814, in Wales. ...the Annoted Paragraph
Bible, published by the Rel. Tra. Soc.;
assisting Payne Smith,
in the preparation of his "Syriac Lexicon";
and
"Students Lex-
ixcon of the Hebrew Language." Non-conformist. Died 1876.
[Info only: possible W&H, O.T. reviser]
- Davis, Gen. John,--was born 1788.
His father entered the Revo-
lutionary army.
- Dayton, A. C., M.D., was born 1813.
...the Bible Board of the S.
Baptist Conv.
1855, the Tennessee Baptist.
Also the Baptist Banner, and in preparing a religious encyclo-
pedia.
See List.
- Deacons.--The word diakonos means an attend-
ant, a servant....
In Acts 6:1-6, --1 Tim. 3:8, 13.
- Dean, William, D.D., was born in 1807.
1834 Siam; associated with J. T. Jones in Bang-
kok, and to the
Chinese in that city.
...learned the dialect--the Tie Chin--preach 1835.
He resumed my. work in Hong-Kong, in 1842.
- Deane, Richard, Major-General, and Gen-
eral at Sea, was born at England,
in 1610. Oliver Cromwell, the king.
- Delaune, Thomas, was born at Brini, three
miles from Ireland.
He rendered scholarly aid to Benjamin Keach.
...his "Plea for the Nonconformists."
- Delaware, Baptists of.--in 1703.
- Dell, William, A.M., was educated at
Cambridge. In the great awaken-
ing in England...he
adopted our views on the mode and subjects of bap-
tism....
He denounced all compulsion in matters of re-
ligion, and wrote a book against uniformnty in re-
ligion secured by the persuasive force of legal
enactments.
- Denison, Frederic, was born 1819.
...; author of the
following bound volumes: "The Supper Institu-
tion," "The Sabbath Institution," "The Baptists
and their Principles...," etc.
- Denison, Deacon John Ledyard, A.M., was born in 1826.
...published
"Pictorial History of the Wars of the United
States," edited "Illustrated New World,"
in Ger-
man, "Illustrated History of the New World," in
English.
- Denk, Hans, was a Anabaptist. Basel in 1522.
He and Haetzer undertook the translation of the
Hebrew Bible. See List.
- Depravity, Total. See Original Sin.
- Des Moines, University of, Iowa, was founded
in 1865.
- Devan, Thomas T., M.D., was born in N.
Y. City, 1809.
...connected with the First Baptist Church
in N. Y., of Dr. Cone. In 1844 he and
his wife, went as mies. to China.
- Dickinson, A. E., D.D., at present senior ed-
itor of the Religious Herald, published in Rich-
mond, Va., was born 1830.
He became joint owner, with Dr. Jeter, a
weekly journal, to gospel Baptist truth.
- Dipping in the Westminster Assembly of
Divines.--1644. [Info only: John Lightfoot.]
- Disciples of Christ, The, or
"Campbellites,"
See List.
[Info only: President Garfield was one.]
- District of Columbia, The Baptists of.--The
first Baptist church in the Disrict was organized
March 7, 1802.
Wm. Parkinson, then chaplain to Congress,
supplied the pulpit.
- Dixon, A. C., young preacher of North Carolina.
- Doane, William Howard, Mus. Doc., was
born in 1831.
Dr. Done stands among the foremost musical
composers of our day.
..., in connection with Robert Lowry...
"The Old,
Old Story," "More Like Jesus," "Near the Cross"
- Donatists, The.--In North Africa.
Augustine of Hippo was a heretick.
See Online.
- [Donatus].
- Dowling, John, D.D., was born
of England, 1807.
He has published "The History of
Romanism." 1877, on "Humility as an
Element
of Ministerial Character."
- Dungan, Thomas, was born in Ireland,
and for some time he was a resident of Rhode
Island, but in 1684, he
came into Pennsylvania. ...con-
stituted the first Baptist church in Pennsylvania.
In 1688, guide to Elias Keach.
See List.
- Dunkards.--signifies Dippers. (See GERMAN BAP-
TISTS.)
- Dunster, President Henry, was born in Eng-
land probably in 1612. He arrived in Boston in
1640. Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
But Dunster was powerfully affected by the impris-
onment of Messrs. Clarke, Holmes, and Crandal
at Boston for worshipping God as Baptists without
leave from the ruling powers.
...the first pres-
ident of Harvard.
- Durfee, Job, Chief Justice, was born in R. I., 1790.
- Dutch Baptists in England.--1575.
- Du Veil, Charles M., M.D., was trained from
childhood in the Hebrew faith. 1685.
- Dyke, Daniel, M.A., was born at Es-
sex, about 1617. When Cromwell
ordered a collection to be taken up in all the parish
churches in England for the persecuted Waldenses,
Mr. Dyke's name, with many others, appeared in
the proclamation as commending the object.
1668, was co-pastor with
William Kiffin.
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