A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook

Annotation A companion volumn to Harry Leon McBeth's texas baptists. A definitive collection of primary sources in Texas Baptist history. A indispensable source of information for anything relating to Baptists in Texas.

Annotation Tells how Samuel Augustus Hayden, almost destroyed the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT). In the final decades of the nineteenth century, Hayden caused such unrest among Texas Baptists, that he was expelled from the state body. He created the Baptist Missionary Association (BMA), which continued to fight perceived oppression by the BGCT.

Companion to the The Baptist Heritage, this book provides documents that will enrich the study of Baptist history.

Excerpt from History of the Baptists of Texas: A Concise Narrative of the Baptist Denomination in Texas, From the Earliest Occupation of the Territory to the Close of the Year 1906, With a Copious Topical Index As faithful as he is capable of being, has been the author in the preparation of this volume. He has had before him constantly a great denomination of Christians, whose track way he has followed through four-fifths of a century. There have been struggles herculean, and victories resplendent; there have been periods of alternating darkness and light; there have been sacrifice and selfishness, order and dis order, wisdom, far-sightecl and exact, and errors, not a few. But out of it all has come a history of rare radiance, the recorded deeds of which will serve to stimulate through all the years of time. The darkness intermingled through these deeds make the bright only the brighter. Just as they have been found to exist, have the facts been recorded. The his torian has not made them, nor has he sought to modify them. A fact cannot be unmade. It remains such for all eternity. Fidelity to the truth has been the actuating motive of the author throughout. How well he has illus trated this principle, or how far short he has fallen, will be seen in these pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.