1848 BAPTIST W. NOEL. Resigns as an Anglican and is Immersed as a Baptist Pastor! Great! Abolition 387 + 298pp

387 + 298pp

I have informed my people of my intentions to offer myself for the chaplaincy of the 23rd Iowa Infantry

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the Captain had given orders to slacken sail

It is possible indeed for government to command what it may not be lawful to comply with

1848 BAPTIST W. NOEL. Resigns as an Anglican and is Immersed as a Baptist Pastor! Great! Abolition 387 + 298ppWhat a wonderful little piece of history. Baptist Wriothesley Noel [1799 1843] had been an Evangelical Anglican clergyman of significant reputation. He opposed Edward Irving and Thomas Boys on the issue of the return of the miraculous, preached at the Missionary Society Annual Meetings, and more. He was the "it" guy. But a growing unease at the union of Church and State and internal questions about baptism by immersion on profession of faith dogged