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That a book of this kind might be of great service among Baptists, will probably be admitted. If we haveany justifi cation for a separate denominational existence, it is because loyalty-to the New Testament teaching regarding the church compels us to stand apart from other Christians. We are accustomed to state our distinctive principles in something like this form The Scriptures, the supreme and all - sufficient rule of faith and practice; the church, a spiritual body, con sisting only of the regenerate baptism, the Immersion of a believer on profession, of his faith; the Lord's Supper, the communion of those thus baptized with their Lord and with each other; each church independent as to its internal af fairs, but all the churches mutually interdependentand united in all good works the absolute right of every man to wor ship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, without molestation, so long as he does not interfere with the peace'and' good order of society. These things are dis tinctive Baptist pr1nc1ples, however, onlybecause we believe them to be distinctive'new Testament teachings. The object of this book is to Show the grounds of that belief, by a care ful and Candid'study of apostolic times, In the full light of the latest biblical and historical scholarship.
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Henry Clay Vedder was an American clergyman, journalist, and church historian.
Background
Henry Clay Vedder was born on February 26, 1853, at De Ruyter, New York. He was the eldest of the three children of Meander W. and Harriet (Cook) Vedder. His parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were all born in America. The Vedders emigrated to New Netherland in the early part of the seventeenth century and the name was a familiar one throughout the eastern area. In the earlier days, most of them were farmers.
According to members of the family, his second name was not Clay but Cook. One day he came home from school very angry and informed his mother that he was not going through life with the nickname "Cookie. " He thereupon adopted the name Clay and gave it as his second name whenever asked, though in his signatures he always used the initial.
Education
Meander Vedder did not like farming and so learned the trade of carriage making and trimming. He received his early education in the grammar schools of Rochester and in the public high school, known in those days as the Rochester Free Academy.
In 1873, at twenty years of age, he received the degree of A. B. from the University of Rochester and three years later he was graduated from Rochester Theological Seminary.
Career
For many years, Vedder had his own shop in Rochester, New York, where he built carriages to order. So expert was he as a mechanic that he made himself a set of teeth because he suffered too much inconvenience and pain from the set fashioned for him by a dentist. He also designed shirts which opened like a coat down the front, and made them for himself, many years before they were so manufactured commercially. As a boy, Henry helped around the shop and throughout life proved proficient in manual arts.
In 1875, he was licensed to preach by the Lake Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester, and on September 13, 1894, he was ordained to the ministry by the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City. Immediately upon graduation from the seminary, he became a member of the editorial staff of the Examiner, a leading Baptist newspaper in New York, of which Dr. Edward Bright was an editor and chief proprietor. In this capacity, he served the denomination for eighteen years and from the beginning of his incumbency revealed a rare ability as a journalist. During this period, upon extended absences of Dr. Bright, he was acting editor, and for a year or more prior to Dr. Bright's death, May 1894, he was editor-in-charge.
In August 1894, Vedder was offered the professorship of church history in Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, as successor to John C. Long. Accepting the position he resigned his editorship in December and entered upon his new duties in January 1895. Referring to this change in his career, in a brief manuscript autobiography, Vedder reveals that he had long been interested in the history of Christianity and had decided to fit himself for the teaching of it. A review of his published works reveals his early interest in the field to which he was finally called to be a teacher.
Upon his retirement from Crozer in 1926, at the age of seventy-three, he became an associate editor of the Chester Times, Chester, Pennsylvania. His column appeared daily until within three days of his death. In addition to the column, he provided an editorial almost every day and on every Saturday a religious article.
The list of Vedder's works reveals an ever-widening intellectual interest, which from sectarianism broadened to include general Christianity and social welfare. The study of Baptist origins led him through Anabaptist history to the Protestant Reformation, and the changes in Christian doctrine and ecclesiastical order which the Reformation entailed led him to a fresh study of the beginnings of Christianity.
Instead of merely chronicling the official acts and factual events in the story of the Church, he portrayed the causes and reasons for the changes as they revealed themselves in the lives of the people in the different periods. It was this social approach to history and the attention paid to the human element that gave his later writings, and his lectures also, their unique interest. Vedder's views and teaching did not have the approval of Baptist "fundamentalists, " who several times tried to have him removed from his professorship.
Personality
Vedder was accused by some of being too caustic in his criticism of those who might differ with him while being unable to bear unfavorable judgments passed on himself and his works by others.
While there may have been some truth in the charge, it is also true that his critics frequently failed to see clearly the points at issue. No man was more intolerant than he of careless and dishonest thinking.
Connections
On September 11, 1877, Vedder was married to Minnie M. Lingham of Rochester, New York. Two sons were born to them: Edward and Henry.