Extract of a Letter from Brother A. Y. Murray, dated Canton, Wayne co., Michigan Territory, Dec. 27, 1834.
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.
