Cherokee 1880 Articles of Faith
These articles of faith were translated from the
New Hampshire Baptist Confession of Faith
Translated by unidentified, fluent, Cherokee speakers, it was first published in 1880 and exists in various reprints from that original public domain source.
Anecdotally, it has been attributed to Amory N. Chamberlin, but the translator(s) were not historically identified.
Originally published entirely in Cherokee, we have chosen to present it in a bi-lingual format of both English and Cherokee.
Start at the index page and open the various articles.
HISTORICAL INFO
In 1833, Baptists in the United States agreed upon a confession of faith around which they could organize a missionary society under the Triennial Convention.
The New Hampshire Confession of Faith was drawn up by the Rev. John Newton Brown of New Hampshire, and was adopted by the New Hampshire Baptist Convention.
It was widely accepted by Baptists, especially in the Northern and Western States, as a clear and concise statement of their faith.
They considered it in harmony with, but in a milder form than, the doctrines of older confessions which expressed the Calvinistic Baptist beliefs that existed at the time.
— Excerpted from 1833 New Hampshire Baptist Confession of Faith on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This Confession was drawn up by the Rev. John Newton Brown, D. D., of New Hampshire about 1833, and was adopted by the New Hampshire Convention, and widely accepted by Baptists, especially in the Northern and Western States, as a clear and concise statement of their faith, in harmony with the doctrines of older confessions, but expressed in milder form.
The English text we used for this posting is taken from the Baptist Church Manual, published by the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, and believed to be within the public domain.