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See also:FREE See also:BAPTISTS , formerly called (but no longer officially) FREEWILL BAPTISTS, an See also:American See also:denomination holding antipaedobaptist and See also:anti-Calvinistic doctrines, and practically identical in creed with the See also:General Baptists of See also:Great See also:Britain. Many of the See also:early Baptist churches in Rhode See also:Island and through-out the See also:South were believers in general redemption " (hence called " general " Baptists); and there was a largely attended See also:conference of this Arminian See also:branch of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Newport in 1729. But the denomination known as " Free-willers " had its rise in 1779-1780, when anti-Calvinists in Loudon, See also:Barrington and See also:Canterbury, New See also:Hampshire, seceded and were organized by See also:Benjamin See also:Randall (1749-1808), a native of New Hampshire. Randall was an itinerant missionary, who had been See also:preaching for two years before his ordination in 178o; in the same See also:year he was censured for " heterodox " teaching. The See also:work of the church suffered a relapse after his See also:death, and a See also:movement to join
the Freewill Baptists with the " Christians," who were led by See also:Elias See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith (1769-1846) and had been bitterly opposed by Randall, was nearly successful. Between 182o and. 183o the denomination made considerable progress, especially in New See also:England and the See also:Middle See also:West. The Freewill Baptists were joined in 1841 by many " open-communion Baptists "—those in the Carolinas who did not join the larger See also:body distinguishing themselves by the name of See also:Original Freewill Baptists—and soon afterwards by some of the General Baptists of NorthCarolina and some of the Six Principle Baptists of Rhode Island (who had added the " laying on of hands " to the Five Principles hitherto held) ; and the See also:abbreviation of the denominational name to " Free Baptists " suggests their liberal policy—indeed open communion is the See also:main if not the only hindrance to See also:union with the " See also:regular " Baptist Church.
Colleges founded by the denomination, all co-educational, are: 'See also:Hillsdale See also:College, opened at See also:Spring Harbor as See also:Michigan Central College in 1844, and established at Hillsdale, Michigan, in 1855 See also:Bates College, See also:Lewiston, See also:Maine, 1863, now non-sectarian; Rio Grande College, Rio Grande, See also:Ohio, 1'46; and See also:Parker College, See also:Winnebago See also:City, See also:Minnesota, opened in 1888. At the See also:close of 1909 there were 1294 ministers, 1303 churches, and 73,536 members of the denomination in the See also:United States. The See also:Morning See also:Star of See also:Boston, established in 1826, is the most prominent See also:journal published by the church. In See also:British See also:North See also:America, according to a See also:Canadian See also:census bulletin of 1902, there were, in 1901, 24,229 Free Baptists, of whom 15,502 were inhabitants of New See also:Brunswick, 8355 of Nova See also:Scotia, 246 of See also:Ontario, and 87 of See also:Quebec. The United See also:Societies of Free Baptist See also:Young See also:People, an See also:international organization founded in 1888, had in 1907 about 15,000 members. At the close of 1907 the " Original Freewill Baptists " had 120 ministers, 167 churches, and 12,000 members, practically all in the Carolinas.
See I. D. See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart, See also:History of the Free Will Baptists (See also:Dover, N. H., 1862) for 178o-183o, and his edition of the Minutes of the General Conference of the Free Will Baptist Connection (Boston, 1887) ; See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James B. See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, The Centennial See also:Record of the Free Will Baptists (Dover, 1881); See also:John Buzzell, Mem3ir of See also:Elder Benjamin Randall (See also:Parson-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, Maine, 1827) ; and P. See also:Richardson, Randall and the Free Will Baptists," in The See also:Christian See also:Review, vol. See also:xxiii. (See also:Baltimore, 1858).
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