One Hundred Years of History! how much it means! what changes have
taken place in all departments of life, Political, Commercial,
Social, and Religious! How much it includes! How much it reveals!
To treat of these changes many books would have be written. The
Committee in charge of this brief History will not attempt it.
Readers will have to allow their imaginations to have sway as they
read, and many events in the life of the Church and town will be
recalled to their memory. For the History of the First Baptist
Church has been one that has meant self sacrifice on the part of
noble men and women. There have been trying times—times when those
at the helm hardly dared look backward at the little accomplished,
or forward to its future labors for fear of becoming utterly
discouraged at the magnitude of the work revealed.
But the Lord of Hosts was with them, the God of Jacob was their
refuge, and through His power they were enabled to press onward;
abundantly did they merit, and assuredly have they received, the
Master’s words of commendation: “Well done good and faithful
servants.”