| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Wooster Regular Baptist Association Record Book
| | | | Creator: | Wooster Regular Baptist Association | | | | Dates: | 1840-1881 | | | | Abstract: | The Wooster Regular Baptist Association was an Ohio association of Regular Baptist ministers and church-appointed delegates which met yearly at various member churches (i.e. Massillon, Wooster, Warren, Salt Creek, Sugar Creek, Canal Dover, Alliance, Canton, Moscow, New Philadelphia, East Union, Indian Run, Canaan, Millbrook, Chipewa, Mohican, Greenford, First Salem, New Hagerstown, etc.). The association promoted foreign and domestic missions, ministerial education, Sabbath school, temperance, and the distribution of bibles, tracts, religious periodicals, and "other objects of Christian benevolence." The collection consists of a constitution and articles of faith, rules of order, and minutes of forty-two anniversary meetings, 1840-81, including resolutions pertaining particularly to the education of ministers, temperance, and Sunday religious instruction. Also includes introductory sermons, committee reports, financial reports, and lists of churches and ministers in the association, along with their letters of greeting, reports, and membership statistics. | | | | Call #: | MS 0545 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wooster Regular Baptist Association (Ohio) -- Archives. | Baptists -- Ohio -- Congresses. | Baptist associations -- Ohio -- Archives. | Ohio -- Church history -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Free Will Baptists, Ohio and Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting Record Book
| | | | Creator: | Free Will Baptists, Ohio and Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting | | | | Dates: | 1880-1917 | | | | Abstract: | Yearly conference composed initially of the Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Crawford, Washington, and Erie quarterly meetings of Free Will Baptists, with delegates proportional to membership in the quarterly meetings. The conference met "to adjust such subjects as presented by the quarterly meetings, and to assist with difficulties and endeavor by all possible means to maintain Gospel order, discipline & holiness in its members." It was also responsible for reporting or sending delegates to the general conference of Free Will Baptists. The Free Will Baptist church had its beginnings in 1780 in New Durham, New Hampshire, where Benjamin Randall preached an Arminian form of Calvinism. The collection consists of minutes (1880-1917) of meetings of this yearly conference, beginning with the 47th session, with a copy of the bylaws and constitution as adopted in 1842. The minutes include reports from the various quarterly meetings, together with resolutions pertaining particularly to missionary work. Also included are lists of delegates and elected officers, and the 1908 proceedings discussing union with the Regular Baptists for cooperation in missionary and denominational work. | | | | Call #: | MS 1253 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911). Ohio and Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting -- Archives. | Baptists -- Pennsylvania -- Congresses. | Baptists -- Ohio -- Congresses. | Ohio -- Church history -- Sources. | Pennsylvania -- Church history -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Mad River Baptist Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Mad River Baptist Association | | | | Dates: | 1812-1877 | | | | Abstract: | The Mad River Baptist Association was organized in 1812 as an association of five Baptist churches in Champaign County, Ohio. The collection consists of copies of minutes of yearly meetings, 1812-1833, compiled by Alby Kite in 1902; statistics on churches and membership, 1812-1873, and lists of ministers, 1812-1872; records of the Missionary Committee, including minutes of meetings and records of proceedings, lists of members, reports by missionaries, tallies of contributions from member churches, motions and resolutions, secretary and treasurer reports, and disbursements to missionaries; an unbound history of the association, 1812-1872, including articles of faith, proceedings of the 61 anniversary meetings, with resolutions, and a tally of total members in the association; and minutes of meetings in 1877 of the Evergreen Cemetery Association (St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio). | | | | Call #: | MS 0651 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Mad River Baptist Association. | Mad River Baptist Association -- Archives. | Mad River Baptist Association. Missionary Committee -- Archives. | Baptists -- Ohio -- Mad River. | Baptists -- Ohio -- Congresses. | Baptist associations -- Ohio -- Archives. | Baptists -- Missions -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. -- Archives. | Ohio -- Church history -- Sources.
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