Mrs. Lizzie McAdams, home missionary, evangelist and promotional and field worker for the National Association of Free Will Baptists, “invented, (as she said) the Jehoiada Chest…
Discipline in the 19th century, in most denominations, was swift and severe. No one was immune. Pastors, deacons, and laymen alike were brought to public trial…
Free Will Christian Baptist, Church of Christ, was once the official name of the Cumberland Association in Tennessee.…
Elizabeth Lawliss McAdams was born October 1, 1884, near Troy, Alabama. “Sister Lizzie,” as she became known, wanted to be a missionary when she was 13.…
By Robert E. Picirilli [1] Many seem to think that the Free Will Baptists of the North—the Randall movement—consistently used “Freewill Baptist,” while those in the South—the…
Music always has been a part of Free Will Baptist worship, but the present denominational hymn book is far different from the first one published in…
You do not have to be an accomplished student of history to know that slavery in America was one of the most divisive issues the country…
The 19th century in America was strongly influenced by a series of “benevolent” societies that were a part of the nation’s response to the Second Great…
On August 16, 1848, in an article in The Morning Star, a paper published by the Free Will Baptists in New England, George W. Baker outlined…
“Our subscription list is nearly five hundred. Now why can’t we make it one thousand in the next few months,” the editor wrote in The Free…