^aBdmarks.
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c.
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Hul salvution of all inankiuf], for if
that be true how shall the scriptures
be fulfilled, or eternal coudemiiation
bo ex[)i'essed against sin ?
ItfUt when it >s said that that day
.-hiill burn as an oven, and shall burn
up the wickc'il leaving them neither
root nor hranch, it expi'esses the cu-
tire and everlasting jinnishinent or
destruction of the wicked ; wheretore
‘•kiss the Son lest belie angry, and
ve perish from the way wlien his
wrath is kindled hut a little. Bless
ed are all they that put their tnist in
” Pslm. 2 : 12.
iiim.
OXFOKIO, N. C.
Jlarch 20th, 1874. / i
■ Elder- P. D. Gold, Wilson, N. 0.
Dear Brother I enclose you two
dollars for the Landmarks, which
came to hand the first of January. I
was confined to my bed about the
fii-st of December with an athick ot
branchittis, trom which I am recov
ering very slow, which now is dis-
pajed to run into consumption, which
I have been pre -disposed to go into
for several years but our departure is
with the Lord. 1 trust his pre.sencc
will be with me when my change
comes. I tried last Spring to preach
at two places, for the brethren,
sisters, and people, uutil ray health
tailed so I had to stop, after mended
a Ijttle I commenced again, but only
two tiU'^npts, viie last the fourth
y 1 • ^ T Ifiilvn fhr'
meet witli the adoption of the change
not that I shall have «ny personal
interest in the meetings for I never
expected to be able to be at anotiier,
bat I want the brethren and sisters
to have a place of less attraction and
show, and less riotousness, a place of
quietness and peace, a place where it
looks like the oil of God’s love is
po’ured out and comes down upon
their heads and runs down upon their
beards and upon the skirts of their
garments, a place to all true worship
ers of God, that look like the moun
tains of Zion, and feels the dew ot
Herman, descending upon it. h or
them the Lord commanded the bless
ing, even life forever-more.
Yours in the hope of Christ,
B. Bryax,
would stay where I pvas with the
world. But since you were up here I
have been so much condemned fv/r
disobeving the commandments of our
blessed Saviour that I was even
afraid that he would send some great
judgment on me, so I have come to
the conclusion to offer myself to the
Old Baptist, my trials have been great
I concerning this one thing and in-
; stead of ray parents being the c.uise
I of my faith as I have been often ac-
i cased I am constrained to say as Paul
i did,by the grace of God I am what I
' am. I believe here I will write you
i a little of my experience; when I was
! right voting I W’ould have serious
thoughts of death and judgment and
! at times I would have such bad feel-
aries and duiing that year there was
a })rotracted meeting in sight ot her
house whicli lasted fouriceii dr.ys
they would try t'6 get me to tho
mourner’s heiich, hut i cor.ld not ao,
it seemed to me that was not iho
place to go to for religion though
others would go up and make a pro
fession, they talked to nte so mhch f
became very much troubled iiukerl
but not on the account of my sins.
One evening after I returned home
im^’S even the Sun would shine dmi
Suiulav ill fs'ovember I learn the |
brethren still keep up my regular!
appointments at Smith’s school house.
Ifi-otiierAToore meets wdth and preach
es for them every iMoiiday after the
second Sunday. There ai-e several
o-ood warm-hearted whole-soul Bap-
O'
lists at this place, come out from uu-
dar the yokes of the IMissioiiaries and
and Methodist to graze m aquiet and
|)cacable pasture, and several wish
to cxmie, hope they ivill be able to
establish a church at this place after
a little, which was my wish to try
to do.
I am plea.sed to read the remarks
of our father and brother C. L. Has
sell this moring in the Landmarks,
on the.change of time for holding our
^ks.sociation, his viws are mine intoto,
a.s they are nO|\v held, Saturday ’and
Sunday is aii open field for the
ing'athering of every sin and vice that
can be practiced, holding auction sal
es, drinking and eating saloons, gam
bling, swapping, trading.
stealing.
fighting, shooting, and the Lord only
knows what all. And we by holding
meeting on those days, which days
the wicked claims to be his days of
pleasure above all others of the week
taken, we but license them to gather
themselves together and come into
the fields and to their work and de-
lur
ht. It has long ceased to be a
pleasure with me to attend our asso
ciations. The rioters being so large
ly in-the majority upon the grounds
which tvas designed to be kept sacred.
I hope brother Hassells’ view's will
TvOODSDALE, I
Person Coknty, N. C. >
■ May 26th, 1874. j
Elder Vf-oodard:—
Dear Sir : I aidre.^s you iu this
manner because I am not alowed the
privilege of saying brother, although
you feel like a brother to me in
Christ for I know I have tliat love
and fellow.ship for you that I have
not for the world, and that I believe
the world knows nothing about—you
requested me to write to you soon af
ter you left this neighborhood. I
wrote you a letter but failed to send
it I wa.s so dissatisfied in mind I
thought I would wu'ifce to you again. I
told you some of my feelings on Sat-
urd.ay at. Shilori and not having
time to' talk as ijmch as 1 wlriied' I
thought I wouhlj go where yon fvent
^ Suiulav and talk with you more, but
j so it was when I came out of the
i house my husband told me there ivas
company going liome with us so that
of course deprived me of the oppor
tunity of being with you any more
then, but I hope the time will come
again when you will visit us for we
certainly have hut little gospel
preaching in this vicinity as I believe.
Sometimes once in two months I
hear iSIr. Hall preach. I can hear a
plenty of this Free-Will doctrine but
how can I believe it when I have
seen that there was no help in me
and that uothing but the goodne.ss of
God could save me from an awful
hell, aud right here I believe when
any one comes to this point tliey nev
er have any more use for that doc
trine, for I know that I have never
believed it since, and because I do not
believe it I am almo.st dispised by
my neighbors and they will say what
makes me an Old Bapuist is because
ray parents were; but oh, my soul if
that was all I surely would have been
a Missionary for my companion was
one and when I first obtained this
little hope I thought I would jom
them,for going any wdiere else seem
ed to me like parting. As i would go
to their metings and would think I
would shut my eyes and join anyhow
and in a moment this would pop in
mind, that which is not of faith is sin,
so I could not go forsvard under these
I finally concluded I
and every thing look gloomy around
me. I spent many years in this condi
tion and at last as I hope Lord sIkcv-
ed me what I was bv nature aud
I was in my room lying on tlie l.vJ
and my husband came in there and
commenced talking to me and I
in so much trouble I knew not wlial'.
to do, he soon left the room mosing
the door after him ; and oh, my .enul
what a feeling I then liad, I felt likb
1 neither had a friend on earth nor
i iu heaven, and in a fev.^ minutes iny
' mind was directed back to tio'i
what I must be bv grace if saved. I
iiow'saw and felt that J was a sinner
and now I knew it, my sins were pre
sented to me on the first of the week
and oh, such a week I never spent
before iu my life; morning, day and
night on the account of sin, it seem
ed to me like mv troubles were more
than I could bear. I.felt so sinful that
even when I would go to the table
I would feel to© unworthy to partake
of the nourishments thereon, and oh, I
would wish some times I had never
been born. I did not wait for a
protracted meeting as some do and
only mourn while round the stand
J as i^‘0p(as dis'missed, out laughing
weeks’ trouble
lad he
a IK
and talking , and with the largest
crov/ds ill the \|ard. I have often seen
I was married, and somcL,hing scv.ni-
ed to say to me—-that my sins w. rC
forgivivcii then—and in a icw r.-.o-
incnts my troubles were all gone and
I felt like I was full of jiraiseto God.
My husband soon came back inta
the room and asked me if there bad
been a change in me. I told him. 1
felt better but still I did not think
this was religion, nor neither did I
. claim it as such until some time af-
warclsl heard Mr. Hall preach, and
while he was preaching it appeared
to me that I had a hope for a hoi-'O,
and ever since then 1 hare been
claiming that little hope wdiich I hone
the Lord has given me; and, tiih
world may mock and })oint the linger
of scorn at me but thanks be to G(A
this the'case if’I am mistaken not, I
never laughed daring this week’s
trouble for every breath I drew was
Lord have mercy on me a poor sinner!
I desired to be alone where no mortal
eye could behold me for I did not
want any one to know anything about
ray troubles. I was so afraid my
parents would find out that something
was the matter with me I took an
old Testament that was never used by
the family and carried it up stairs to
read, for that seemed to be my de
sire. But the more I read the worse I
ffot for I was so great a
they cannot take it from ihe.
Kow, in conclusion I will say to
you, if I am saved at last it will h'C
by grace and grace alone—nothing
0-0..d that I have or can do. I would
o
be glad to see or hear from you.
Your friend, .
M. D. Bailey.
sinner that
5"^ .w. - o j--,
everything seemed to condemn me„
One day while on my knees tryin^*l!()
beg the Lord to have mercy on me,
then was the time I saw that there
was no help in me and that nothing
hut the grace of God could save me.
I then saw that my works were noth
ing and that is the reason why I
cannot believe this Free-Will doctrine
but now I thank the Lord for it for
if it had been left to me I should
now be where thousands are , believ-*
iiig there is something great for me
Preaching may be e.xpected, it the
Lord’s will, at the following times
and places :
Anaiast,
7ih,
8th & 9th
10 th,
Ecniih'.h.
Kaluiii.
Healthy Piairi:'.-
to do. I tried every way to get
rid
of mv troubles but could not, but at
feelings and
last they left me. I cannot tell how.
I did not think this was conviction
so I went on for several years without
nuich trouble—during this time I
married in the fall of’67 aud went to
my husbands mother’s to live the
next year and they were all Mission -
The Upatoie Association is appointed tO
meet, if the Lord will ; At Bluff Springs 4
miles north ivest, of Andersonville, and 8
miles soothwest, of Oglethorpe, Macon coun
ty Georgia, commencing at 10 o’clock on
Tuesday after the 1st Sumiav in Septeuihcv
next. Those coining i).v Kail Road, fi'ongtho
East will arrive^t Oglethorpe on Monday,
vihile those coming from the soutn ’.vc-.st,
will arrive at Andersonville on the same dny
and they will be met an'd conveyed to the
place of meeting. All that loci an interest
are invited to atted.
S. iT. Exonisit.
The Mt. Enen Primitive Baptist Associa
tion convenes at Bethlehem church, Hills
boro County, South hlorida, on Saturday be
fore the third Suudaj'in November, 1874.—
Ministering I'retliren from Sister Associations
are invited. We hope to see Riders Parrisb.and
Stallings from the Union aud Elders Smith
and Coon Cornell and Grover from Suwarnec
—and would be glad to see any of our dear
brethren at the Associatiou.