Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

“We are surprised to learn that the Baptists have not received anything from
the government for the work among the Indians.”
President Eliott, of Harvard University, is quoted by Dr. Lorimer, as saying:
“The chief gain of three centuries has been freedom of thought;” and Bancroft
says that “freedom of conscience, unlimited freedom of mind, was from the
first the trophy of the Baptists.”
The German philosopher, Gervinus, in his “Introduction to the History of the
Nineteenth Century,” says of the Baptist of Rhode Island:
“Here in a little State the fundamental principle of political and ecclesiastical
liberty prevailed before they were even taught in Europe. … But not only
have these ideas and these forms of government maintained themselves here,
but precisely from this little Stale have they extended themselves throughout
the United States. They have confused the aristocratic tendencies in Carolina,
New York, the high church in Virginia, the theocracy in Massachusetts, and
the monarchy in all America. They have given laws to a continent and through
their moral influence they are at the bottom of all democratic movements now
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shaking the nations of Europe.”
Thus with their motto, freedom for all, and their spirit:
“They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
For the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.”
With this motto and spirit, by the cost of their liberty, of slander, of their blood
and their lives, Baptists have bequeathed the world its religious and civil
liberty.
(4.) Baptist fruits are gloriously manifest in giving the Bible to the people in
their own language.
The first Bible Society for the world was originated in 1807, by a Baptist —
Joseph Hughes. The Romish church has always opposed giving the Bible to
the people in their own tongues. Only when the light of Christianity made it
necessary to give the people the Bible in their own tongues, to save them to
their church, did the Romish rulers ever consent to do so. Then they must not
interpret it for themselves. Under that condition reading the Bible is so much
disencouraged by the Romish rulers that comparatively few Romanists,
speaking the English language, own a Bible. Excepting into the Latin and