The Standard was established in 1853. It had a national circulation but considered itself the "Baptist organ for Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming."
This letter is addressed to the Welsh Tract Old School Baptist Church from a member of the church expressing his reasons for moving to a Lutheran church. The letter is unsigned.
"The American Baptist Memorial: A Statistical, Biographical, and Historical Magazine of the Baptist Denomination and of the Whole Christian World" Vol. XIII 1854