J. H. Grime collects important records, biographies, accounts of events, and other details that recount the story of the Baptists of middle Tennessee, with special reference to the Salem, New Salem, Enon, and Wiseman Baptist Associations. This carefully compiled history, with its stories of figures and times that went before, leads readers—as John T. Oakley writes in the introduction—“back amid the hard fought battles of other years; and the origin and history of the old churches will acquaint us with pastors, deacons, clerks, and membership of God’s obedient children who are on the other side.”