The North Western Association of Baptist Churches 1860 -1876

Abstract

"The North Western Association of Baptist Churches began by . breaking away from, and ended by rejoining, the Lancashire and Cheshire Association. It was, above all else, a protest against that local body, and represented an attempt to resist the direction which change and development were taking within the churches generally. As such, it was a product of the times, an historical phenomenon, which illustrates the fundamental rethinking, and the tension which accompanied it, as the Lancashire Baptists progressed to their' Golden Age,' when they were to lead the rest of the denomination into the paths of co-operation which they themselves had pioneered."