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Tracts and Pamphlets – Religious Liberty

The SBHLA’s extensive Pamphlet Collection (over 10,200 items) focuses on the response of Baptists to theological and social questions, during the 19th and 20th centuries, but covers all aspects of Baptist writings. This presentation includes a selection of items mostly from the Library and Archives’ Pamphlet Collection, with a few tract and pamphlet items from the Book and Microfilm collections. Items are divided into subject categories and arranged alphabetically by title. Author name, publisher, and date of publication are indicated when known. SBHLA call numbers are included at the end of file titles. Most items are in English but selections in this presentation also include material in Spanish and Russian. The materials are any word searchable.

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This presentation of Religious Liberty tracts and pamphlets includes selections from both American Baptist and Southern Baptist religious freedom advocates including addresses and sermons by G. S. Bailey, J. L. M. Curry, J. M. Dawson, Ralph M. Johnson, George William Lasher, E. Y. Mullins, George Truett, and Rufus Weaver. Topics address the history of Baptist contributions to religious freedom and the struggle for separation of church and state in America.


  • 1900 Retrospect, Or A Century of Religious Liberty, A (by George Boardman Eager, Sunday School Board, SBC), 1900 PAM 1362
  • Baptist Conception of Religious Liberty (by E. Y. Mullins, An Address at the Third Baptist World Congress, Stockholm, Sweden), July 23, 1923 PAM 6457
  • Baptist Contributions to Religious Liberty in America, The (by Hight C. Moore, Sunday School Board, SBC), ca. 1920 PAM 1133
  • Baptist Watchman and the New World Order (by Rufus W. Weaver), 1944 PAM 1134
  • Baptists and Religious Liberty (by George W. Truett, An Address Delivered from the East Steps of the National Capitol at Washington, D. C.), May 16, 1920 PAM 614
  • Baptists and Religious Liberty, Relations of Baptists to the Enunciation and Establishment of Religious Liberty (by Sewall S. Cutting, Warburton Avenue Baptist Church, Yonkers, NY), December 5, 1875 PAM 1806
  • Individualsim in Religion (by George William Lasher), 1890 PAM 4269
  • Maryland Toleration Act Held Limited Grant of Religious Liberty PAM 1132
  • One Hundred Years Ago and Now (by T. P. Bell, Foreign Mission Board, SBC) PAM 4280
  • Present Condition of Religious Liberty Throughout the World, The (by J. L. M. Curry, Evangelical Alliance, Chicago), 1893 PAM 1791
  • Preserving Our Religious Freedom (by Ralph M. Johnson, Excerpts from a Sermon Preached at the First Baptist Church), ca. 1950 PAM 1239
  • Pronouncement Upon Religious Liberty, A (Made at Southern Baptist Convention, Oklahoma City), May 1939 PAM 1223
  • Religious Liberty and American Baptists (Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Sunday School Board, SBC), 1944 PAM 1442
  • Religious Liberty Restated (by J. M. Dawson, Southern Baptist Historical Society), August 29, 1944 PAM 92
  • Roger Williams Memorial in our National Capital, An Enterprise for All Baptists and for All Lovers of Religious Liberty in the United States of America, A, 1917 Pam 1365
  • Separation of Church and State in America (by John C. Long, American Baptist Publication Society), 1892 PAM 3473
  • Trials and Victories of Religious Liberty in America (by G. S. Bailey, American Baptist Publication Society), ca. 1876 PAM 4365
  • Waging the Battle for Religious Liberty (by Joseph M. Dawson, Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs), 1953 PAM 3108

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