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A History of the Baptists in the Middle States (Classic Reprint)
A History of the Baptists in the Middle States - Classic Reprint Author:Henry C. Vedder ON the 9th of September, 1609, Hcndrick Hudson sailed into New York Bay in the "Half Moonn and cast anchor. His prophetic eye beheld the waters of this bay-then, as now, the most beautiful in the Western Hemisphere-filled with ships from every land and its shores occupied by teeming cities. He named the region New Netherland, and marked the isle... more » of Manhattan as the site of a new colony. The Dutch were among the most enterprising colonizers of the seventeenth century, and the glowing reports brought back by Hudson stimulated them to make immediate trial of the possibilities of this new region, which promised profits as large as they had already obtained in their East Indian colonies. Private enterprise was first in the field. Merchants of
Table of Contents
Early Days in New York 9/C; CHAPTER II The Early Days in New Jersey 38; CHAPTER III Early Days in Pennsylvania and Delaware 56; CHAPTER IV The Growth of Organization 86; CHAPTER V; "The Western Movement ; Its Results and Significance 109; CHAPTER VI Evangelism and Revivals149; CHAPTER VII The Period of Controversies175; CHAPTER VIII Baptists and Education207; Work for the Young-The Publication Society 255; CHAPTER X; Baptists and Bible Work 286; CHAPTER XI; A Comparative Study of Progress 309; r A 333; B 336; C 339; Appendixes *; D 342; E 34G; [F 348
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