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William Cathcart was born on November 8, 1826 in the county of Londonderry, Ireland, where he was brought up in the strict Presbyterian faith. He was the son of James and Elizabeth (Cously) Cathcart.
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William Cathcart
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He obtained the rudiments of a classical education at a school near his home, but continued his studies at the University of Glasgow and at the Baptist school (now Rawdon College) in Horton, Yorkshire.
Career
At about the time of his nineteenth birthday, he had a personal religious experience which he considered a conversion, and in January 1846 he was baptized by immersion. Ordained pastor of the Baptist church at Barnsley, but chafing under the restraints of a society dominated by an established church, he determined to migrate to America. Reaching New York on November 18, 1853, he became, the next month, pastor at Groton, Connecticut Soon after his thirtieth birthday, he was called to the Second Baptist Church of Philadelphia, beginning on April 1, 1857, a pastorate of twenty-seven years. From the beginning of this ministry, its vigor was conspicuous. Cathcart participated in the broader activities of his denomination and aggressively supported the Bible Union movement in its interest in the translation rather than transliteration of the words referring to baptism. His preaching was largely a scholarly exposition of the Scriptures with an incisive application of evangelical principles, occasionally cutting across cherished views. Early in this pastorate, he assailed the prevalent Sabbatarianism of the strongly Protestant community; for this a group of fellow ministers denounced him as holding heretical views. His announcement that a recurrence of the accusation would lead to a suit for slander stifled these irresponsible charges. The blend of rigor and urbanity in his temperament is revealed in the remark of an officer of his church after his retirement, "We had a master and did not know it. " Early in 1884, on account of his health he retired from the pastorate to his farm at Gwynedd where he was able to continue historical activities which he had commenced more than a decade earlier. If his critical acumen lagged behind that of some of the more advanced historians of his day, he often delved deep for source material. He wrote other popular works: The Papal System from Its Origin to the Present Time (1872); The Baptists and the American Revolution (1876); The Baptism of the Ages and of the Nations (1878); The Ancient British and Irish Churches Including the Life and Labors of St. Patrick (1894).
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The Baptist Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary ... of the General History of the Baptist Denomination in All Lands; With Numerous Biographical Sketches
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The Ancient British and Irish Churches Including the Life and Labors of St. Patrick
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The Baptists and the American Revolution
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The Papal System
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The Baptist Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary ... of the General History of the Baptist Denomination in All Lands; With Numerous Biographical Sketches
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In 1850 he married Eliza Caldwell, who was to survive him eight years.
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Baptist