Basil Manly Sr. and his son played vital roles in shaping a number of Southern Baptist institutions in its formative years in the nineteenth century, including the influential Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Undergirding their churchmanship was a vigorous Calvinistic Baptist piety that was expressed in sermons and tracts, hymns and confessional statements, letters, and diaries—all represented in this volume of selections from their writings, which opens a window into nineteenth-century Southern Baptist life.