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Baptists

noun

Any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers. Synonym: Baptist Church.

Baptist

noun

Follower of Baptistic doctrines.

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"Baptists" Quotes from Famous Books

... the week. He complains bitterly of this supposed fact, because his religious scruples will not allow him to take advantage of it. He confesses that he has sometimes thought seriously of joining the Seventh-Day Baptists. ...

— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke

... hopes of saving through the Swedenborgian revelation, grievously disappointed her by actually becoming a Baptist and being dipped. This was too much for the evangelist, although she should have remembered her father passed through that same experience and often preached for the Baptists in Edinburgh. ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie

... Possibly Baptists and Independents like those whom Tooley Street sent out to enlarge the area of freedom beyond seas still people it; but I cannot say, and for the rest it is much crossed and recrossed by the viaducts of the London and ...

— London Films • W.D. Howells

... where suffrage is advocated, party politics should be laid aside for the time being. In religious meetings no distinction should be made between Republicans, Democrats or Populists. In political meetings no distinction should be made between Methodists, Baptists or Presbyterians. In suffrage meetings there should be no distinction of sect or party. But we hold our ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... adjacent planters count their slaves by the hundreds. Some of them live with a good deal of magnificence, using service of plate, having smoking-rooms for the gentlemen built off the house, and entertaining with great hospitality. The Baptists, Episcopalians, and Methodists hold services on alternate Sundays in the court-house. All the planters and many others near the lake shore keep a boat at their landing, and a raft for crossing vehicles and horses. It seemed ...

— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various

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