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Friday, November 10, 2017

Southern Baptist Association, partial report

Below is an excerpt about the Southern Baptist Association (Free Will Baptists)


“The Southern Baptist Association,” Weekly Transcript and Messenger (Goldsboro, North Carolina), Friday, May 6, 1887, p. 8

2 comments:

Leland Bryant Ross said...

"Call[ing] together enough of the brethren to act as proxies for the absent delegates" almost makes it sound like initially churches joined the Association (or Convention) somewhat along the lines of LDS proxy baptisms.

R. L. Vaughn said...

In this case the proxies only acted as delegates to construct a proposed association with constitution and bylaws. The rest of the article (which I clipped this from) would show that the other churches/associations not represented would have to choose to approve or disapprove of the action.