FOR THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1835.
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“Let it for the present, suffice to say, there is nothing
very special among us—we are favored with peace and harmony among ourselves.
The Preachers of Philadelphia seem to pity us here in Delaware, and are going
to send some Missionaries to convert us, &c. I think they will have a hard
task to perform, at least with some of us, while we have our Bibles in our
hands, and the light of the Holy Spirit to direct us. We believe that
regeneration is effected, not by human might or power, but by My Spirit, saith the
Lord.”
Yours, in Gospel Bonds,
WM. K. ROBERSON.
Jan. 13, 1835.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
I'm pleased with your paper and hope you can continue it. It has and will continue to do a great deal of good. I am sorry I can't send you a few more names as
subscribers. It would seem that in a population of ninety thousand (the number
of our inhabitants) there”
Send the next piece, and I’ll continue from “there might be a
few Old Fashioned Baptists; it is probable there is, but they are so scattered
that they do not know anything of each other. I do not know of one solitary
Baptist Preacher of the Old School, but who is hunted down with the
Missionary, Bible Society, Tract, Sunday School, and Temperance creatures. I
have been in this country for eight years, and have heard a few sermons that
I could subscribe to in the main part; but I have heard the same men preach at
other times, doctrine so disgusting, that I want no part or lot in the matter
with them, and for so doing I am considered an uncharitable creature. I do in
conscience, esteem one number of the Signs (especially such a one as the last
or 25th No.) of more real value than all the preaching I have heard in a year;
our Brother Thompson of Ohio, speaks my sentiments on the subject on which he
treats, far better than I could myself. It is very pleasing to me to read the
communications of so many of our brethren from the East, West, North and South,
who all appear to be travelling the same road—who would rather suffer
affliction with the people of God, than to dwell in the tents of sin for a
season—who appear to have the same calling, and the same enemies to encounter,
and are willing to ascribe all the glory of their salvation to the same God—who
appear to be striving to glorify him in their bodies and in their spirit, which
are his.
The Ministers and Messengers composing the Kehukee Baptist Association, now sitting at the Cross-Road Meeting house, Edgecombe County, N. C., the 4th, 5th, and 6th days of October, 1834, to the several Churches they represent, send you this epistle of ours; as usual, in which we shall call your attention to a RELIGIOUS TRAFFIC.
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Wabash District Association of Regular Baptists, held at [Gialy/Giady] Fork Meeting House, Crawford County, Illinois, on the 4th, 5th, and 6th days of October, 1834.
The brethren composing the Meeting of Correspondence, held with the Bethlehem Church, Prince William County, Va., August 11th to 14th, 1837.
Strikersville, Pa.
January 20th, 1837.
DEAR BROTHER: I find in the 1st No. of Vol. V. of the Signs, a communication from our aged and justly esteemed brother, John Leland. I have ever taken a peculiar pleasure in reading his writings; there is, in general, a clearness of conception and perspicuity of language that cannot fail to give an interest to all his productions.
Of the Fifty-sixth Anniversary of the REDSTONE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, Convened at Meadow-Run Meeting House, Greene County, Pennsylvania, September 4, 5, and 6, 1835.
“He hath shewed
thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do
justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
Micah vi. 8.