Editor's note: We do not agree with Spencer’s attack on Dudley's views, although he presented fairly accurately. Per Elder Crowley: "Spencer's line "The other family was created in, and simultaneously with Jesus Christ" seems that he thought Dudley was an Arian. I thoroughly agree with this: 4. The nature of each of these families, is uniform and unchangeable. That of the natural man is wholly corrupt, and remains so perpetually, in every member of that family: That of the spiritual man is wholly pure, and can never be, in any degree, corrupted or tarnished." John H. Spencer, in his A History of Kentucky Baptists, wrote of T. P. Dudley's Circular Letter: