“I Believe in the
Communion of Saints” by Vesta Dunlop Mullen
If you are interested in learning of the personal lives of the ordained
ministers of the Reformed Baptist Church, 1888 to 1966, a very
informative book has just come off the press after three years of
research.
“I Believe in the
Communion of Saints” compiled by Vesta Dunlop Mullen whose life
has been inextricably bound up with the founding and history of the
Reformed Baptist Alliance. Her father was an ordained clergyman in the
denomination and she married Laurence Mullen, a minister’s son who
followed in his father’s footsteps plus he is a collector of church
history, having the most complete collection in existence of the paper,
The King’s Highway and other material.
In her 400-page book, Vesta has compiled a collection of life sketches
about the ordained men and women of the Reformed Baptist Alliance of
Canada.
William Burnett Wiggins was born in Central Norton in 1849. His
marriage to Alice N. Goodspeed, the daughter of Benjamin Goodspeed and
Deborah McNeil took place in 1900. She was a pianist and organist,
having received musical training from Professor Codwallader. She
accompanied her husband as his journeys took him not only through New
Brunswick but to the United States.
In 1901, in Saint John, Ella Hadassah Kinney Sanders, who married the
Rev. Dr. Herbert Clayton Sanders in 1893, was the first woman in the
Dominion of Canada to be ordained.
George W. McDonald was born in 1836, the son of Patrick and Harriet
McDonald of Southern Head, Grand Manan. He worked as a fisherman.
S. Harleigh Clark was born in 1860, one of eleven children of Simeon
and Rebecca (Jones) Clark of Upper Hainesville. He went to Saint John
to attend school. In 1909, he accepted his first pastorate and moved to
Perth.
Fraser Arden Dunlop was the youngest of ten children. His father
Simpson Dunlop was the first deacon of the Maple Ridge Church when it
was organized in 1889. At the age of sixteen, Fraser put formal
schooling on hold and went to the lumber woods to help his father.
In perpetuating the memory of one hundred forty-three ordained
ministers of Reformed Baptist denomination, Vesta Dunlop Mullen has not
only given a glimpse of the men and women they were, the times they
lived in, the challenges they faced and the accomplishments they
achieved, the churches they served but also biographical information as
to the names of their parents, siblings, wives, children and other
personal details.
Book
4059 I Believe in
The Communion of Saints:”
Ordained Ministers of the Reformed Baptist Church 1888-1966
by Vesta Dunlop Mullen
by Vesta Dunlop Mullen - $35.00
plus $12.00 shipping within North America. VERY GOOD CONDITION.