{"id":194,"date":"2011-08-07T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/bhla\/?p=194"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:17:45","slug":"images-of-brethren-baptisms-from-the-early-1900s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/hiddengems\/images-of-brethren-baptisms-from-the-early-1900s\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of Brethren baptisms from the early 1900s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Here are several photographic images of Church of the Brethren baptisms in the early 1900s. All are from the photographic collection of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives. Each minister baptizing was either already an elder or became one during the course of their ministry. The eldership was officially abolished by the Church of the Brethren in 1967. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/nesselrodt-baptism.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/nesselrodt-baptism.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/nesselrodt-baptism-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Charles Nesselrodt baptizing in Stony Creek near the Stony Creek Church of the Brethren, Basye, Virginia, in 1905. Photo by William L. Mumaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/one-who-served-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/one-who-served-book-cover.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/one-who-served-book-cover-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The cover of Terrell Barkley&#8217;s biography of Elder Charles Nesselrodt (Lot\u2019s Wife Publishing, 3rd ed., 2004), which is now available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Brethren Press (opens in a new tab)\">Brethren Press<\/a>. Book cover image courtesy of Brethren Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/elder-samuel-pence-baptizing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/elder-samuel-pence-baptizing.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/elder-samuel-pence-baptizing-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elder Samuel Pence baptizing in Mill Creek near the Mill Creek Church of the Brethren, Port Republic, Virginia, about 1915. Elder Pence\u2019s daughter, Esther Pence Garber, wrote the delightful Button Shoes and Counting My Buttons about her large Shenandoah Valley family, both books published by The Brethren Press in the 1970s. Photo by Thomas I. Bowman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/madison-wine-baptizing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/madison-wine-baptizing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/08\/madison-wine-baptizing-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Madison Wine baptizing near the Fruitdale Church of the Brethren, Fruitdale, Alabama, in 1910. Fruitdale is the oldest Brethren congregation in Alabama. Photo from the W. B. Stover Collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are several photographic images of Church of the Brethren baptisms in the early 1900s. All are from the photographic collection of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives. Each minister baptizing was either already an elder or became one during the course of their ministry. The eldership was officially abolished by the Church of the Brethren in 1967. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,29,10,31,30],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hidden-gems","tag-baptism","tag-charles-nesselrodt","tag-hidden-gem","tag-madison-wine","tag-samuel-pence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}