Morning Star (Limerick, Me.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,468 issues from 1826 to 1857, published in Chicago, Illinois, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Morning Star was a weekly newspaper owned and published by Freewill Baptists from 1826 to 1904. At the Star’s inception, the Freewill Baptist movement, established by Rev. Benjamin Randall (1749-1808), comprised more than three hundred ministers, and an estimated membership of fifteen thousand people affiliated with nearly four hundred churches across New England and the burgeoning Midwest. Reformatory in origin, the Freewill Baptists were primarily concerned with warning sinners to flee from the “wrath to come.” In this spirit, they heavily denounced Calvinism, and advocated for temperance, church planting, Sabbath and theological schools, and mission societies (foreign and domestic). Later, abolition would also be added as a central tenet. Throughout its lifespan, the Star fostered Benevolent Societies dedicated to each of these issues.
In the early 1800s, the Freewill Baptists boasted two pamphlet-style publications that were largely limited to their local contexts: A Religious Magazine (1811-3; 1820-2) — a quarterly publication by Elder John Buzzell (1766–1863) in Parsonsfield, ME — and The Religious Informer (1819-27) — a biweekly (later monthly) publication by Elder Ebenezer Chase in Andover, NH. The denomination saw the need for a more expansive weekly publication, and in 1826, after discussion at the General Conference, nine denomination leaders (Henry Hobbs (1768-1848), Jonathan Woodman (1798-1888), John Buzzell, Samuel Burbank (1792-1845), Elias Libby…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress