Seventy Fifth Anniversary Of The First Baptist Church 1852 1927

Author : Asa Sylvester Chapman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666899927
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Commemorative Booklet of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Champaign, Illinois, 1864-1939 (Classic Reprint) written by Asa Sylvester Chapman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Commemorative Booklet of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Champaign, Illinois, 1864-1939 When I arrived in Champaign on the 15th of September, 1862, I knew John P. White and his father, who lived with him in the house now owned and occupied by Frank Harris, southwest corner of Church and Elm streets. I knew them as Baptists and learned the wife of John P. White was also a Baptist and that these persons had lived here since about 1851' not far from the park here in the city. In 1853, Mr. Curtis F. Columbia and wife, Mrs. Nancy Columbia, came to live in a house about three hundred feet north of where they now live. They were Baptists at that time, Mr. Columbia having been baptized at Mahomet, but on moving to where they now live, or near to it, they became members in Urbana where Mrs. Columbia had been baptized. The father of Mrs. Columbia, whose name was Cox, lived north of Urbana and at her home Mr. Columbia was married to her. On this farm, their son, Thomas B. Columbia, was born and their other three children, Mary, Emma and Hattie, were born in theold home, just north of Champaign. A Baptist church was organized soon after Champaign was laid out, I suppose sometime between 1856 and 1860. John P. White and his father and perhaps the wife of John P. White, were members. Mr. Columbia informed me of this and said that he and Mrs. Columbia brought letters from Urbana and were among the constituent members of that first Church. Rev. A. L. Farr was the first pastor and it appears that the Church was for a while prosperous. Discord, however, developed later and Mr. Farr gave up the care of the church, and the membership was dissolved. About the year 1860, a Mr. Thomas came along and served as pastor, but it is not certain whether the old organization had dissolved before he came or not. Informa tion received indicates that he was not a very prudent man, and did not ac complish anything in uniting the members. As the Rebellion of the Southern States took place about that time and the war for its suppression commenced, Mr. Thomas went into the service of the U. S., either as a chaplain or soldier. 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.