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TarborougJi, (Edgecombe County, JV. Tuesday, November 8, 1831
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Fine green, drab and steel Mixtures,
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Gentlemen's half hose, superior quality,
Pocket handkerchiefs, superior article,
Canton flannel for drawers,
Fine beaver Hats, b'.-st quality,
Black and fancy stocks,
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Tarboro', Sept. 2G, 1S31.
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TTAVING been well patronised du
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Town of Halifax has recently made
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interest, as it ever has been her plea
sure and duty, to execute all orders
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tomers and friends to call and exam
ine them
will be found
Pattern Satin-straw, Silk, and Battcse
bonnets, latest fashions,
Diamond-straw dunstables, plain do.
Leghorn and straw bonnets,
Elegant turbans, &c.
An assortment of puffs and curls,
Gauze Sc barege scarfs Sc handkerchiefs,
Straw and fancy flowers,
A great variety of ribbons, &c. &c.
All of which she is disposed to sell
at her usual low prices.
Ladies' pelisses, cloaks, dresses,
&c. made to order, in the latest and
most opproved fashions.
Leghorn and straw bonnets bleach
ed, dyed, or trimmed.
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Just Published,
At this Office, (with additional notes)
a seconu edition oi me
Patriotic Discourse,
DELIVERED BY THE
Rev. JOSHUA LAWRENCE,
It the Old Church in Tarboro? N. C.
on Sunday, 4th July, 1830.
Price, 10 cents single or, 1 per doz.
7'arb.prough, April IS.
amongst her assortment
KEHUKEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
Extract from the "Minutes of the Kehukce Baptist Association, holden at Flat
owamp tfjeeung-nousc, rm isOunty, JN. u. the 1st, 2d, and 3d of Oct. 1S31." J
SATURDAY, October 1st, 1831.
1. The Elders appointed to preach the Introductory Ser
mon being indisposed and absent, the same was done by Elder
Joshua Lawrence, from Hebrews;, xiii chap, and 1st verse:
"Let brotherly love continue."
2. The Association then convened, and being opened with
prayer by Elder William IIyman, proceeded to business; when
uiucr vvilliam MYMan was chosen Moderator; Elder Jos him i
Bigcis, Clerk; who called to his assistance Brother Joseph D.
Biggs.
Brethren in the Ministry, from sister Associations, were in
vited to seats with us, when brethren John Adhinson and Mark
II. Bennett from the Contentnea, and Amos ltayncr, from the
CI io wan Associations, seated themselves.
3. Letters from foriy-two churches were read, and the dele
gates seated themselves; took the following account from the
churches, as stated in the table of churches.
The tabic of churches states that the Association comprises 42 churches and
2683 members during the past year, 429 members were baptised; 23 received
by letter; 26 dismissed by letter; 31 excommunicated; 39 deceased; 21 restorrd.
4. A Petitionary letter from a church at Towel's Point, Cur
rituck county, (formerly a member of the Chowan Association)
for membership in this Association, was handed in by their
messengers, James Melson and Willoby Sawyer; the same was
read, and after learning the difficulties under which they labor
ed and their faith, they were received as a member of this bo
dy with 20 members.
5. The following commiiteos were appointed, viz: Elders
Joshua Lawrence, Green Carrowan, and Micajaii Amhuose,
to examine the Circular Letter; Brethren James S. Battle and
Wm. R. Long, on finance; Elder William IIyman to write to
the Contentnea Association; Brother Joseph D. Biggs to write
to the Little River Association; all to report on Monday next.
6. Elders William IIyman and Joshua Lawrence arc re
quested (by private ballot) to occupy the stage by preaching on
the morrow.
The Association then adjourned with prayer by Brother Ad
hinson, until Monday morning next, 9 o'clock, A. M.
SUNDAY, 2d October, 1831.
Elder Green Carrowan preached from Joshua, vii chap. I
and part of 25th verse: "And Joshua said, why hast thou trou-j
bled us! the Lord shall trouble thee thi day." Elder Joshua !
Lawrence preached from St. Mark, xvi chap, and part of 15th
verse: "Preach the gospel unto every creature." Elder Wil
liam IIyman closed the services of the day by singing and
prayer.
MONDAY MORNING, October 3d, 1831.
7. The Association assembling Ourrt'iiMblc to adjournment)
was opened with prayer by El-.! -r Joseph Bicg, after which
proceeded to business. j
8. The churches at Sapponv, Sandy Creek, Maple Spring, .
Red Bud, Peach Tree, Rocky Swamp, Quanky, Mourns' Cha
pel, and Fishing Creek, having petitioned for letters ofdismis-j
sion from this body to form another Association, (with other!
churches from the Raleigh and Flat River Associations,) they!
say for convenience and no other cause; and on motion, agreed;
that the prayer of their petition be granted; and Elder Joshua!
Lawrence is requested to draft and give them a letter of dis-l
mission under the signature of the Moderator and Clerk of this'
Association. I
9. The committees appointed on Saturday last, were called j
on to report; the. one to examine the Circular Letter reported;
that they had done the same, and recommended it lo this body,
and that it be read herein; the same was done and ordered to be
attached to these Minutes; the one to write to the Contentnea
Association handed in a letter which was read and approved,
and assigned by the Moderator and Clerk, and brethren John
J. Daniel and Edmund Andrews appointed our messengers;
the one to write to the Little River Association handed in a let
ter which was read and approved, and assigned by the Modera
tor and Clerk, and brethren John Ward and James S. Battle
appointed our messengers.
The committee on finance reported, that
There was in the hands of the Treasurer, at the close of the last
Association, the sum of - S5S 59
Paid for printing the Minutes of last year, - $30 00
Transcribing and preparing those Minutes for ihe press,
superintending the printing and recording one copy on
the Association records, and distributing tftem as usual, iu uu
40 00
Received in contributions from the churches at this Association,
the sum of -
5518 59
42 42
Leaving a balance in the hands of the Treasurer, of $61 01
The Association concurred with the report.
10. A letter from James Osborne, of Baltimore, to this As
sociation was read; and agreed that Elder Joshua Lawrence
acknowledge the receipt of the same in the name of this Asso
ciation. 11. The committee appointed last Association to collect ma
terials to continue iho History of the Kehukce Association
from its close by Elders Lemuel Burkitt and Jesse Read to
this time, reported, that they had collected some materials, but
that there were others necessary to obtain; that those collected
were not yet prepared for the press, and that it was the nrdept
wish of many that the former History and latter materials
should be embodied in one volume; whereupon the Association
agreed that the aforesaid committee arrange them (with any
other materials that may come lo hand in time) as in their judg
ment they may deem most proper. Elder Joseph Biggs is re
quested to superintend the same, and that the work, say print
ing and binding, be given to Mr. George Howard, on his own
responsibility, and a subscription list be sent to the different
churches in this body for subscribers.
12. Resolved, that the temporary bounds heretofore known
and established in this Association be removed, and that the
future Associations be held with the churches respectively as
they may think most advisable.
13. Resolved, that our next Association be holden at Cond
ho, (Log Chapel,) to commence on Saturday before the first
Sunday in October, 1832, and that public worship commence
at 11 o'clock, A. M. and that Elder J6seph Biggs be request
ed to deliver a sermon introductory to business, and Elder
Green Carrowan in cose of his failure.
14. Elder Joshua Lawrence, is requested to prepare a Cir
cular Letter for our next Association.
15. Queries were called for, when the following was handed
in, read and received for debate: "Are ministers of the gospel
(in our churches) authorized to lay their hands by way of pres
bytery on any person set before them (by the church) for the
office of minister or deacon, and if they are, what doth it con
vey!" Which was answered in the following manner, viz:
"The New Testament points out four things for which the
apostles laid on their hands first, 10 give the Holy Ghost so-,
condly, to give the gift of the ministry tturdly, to ordain dea
cons fourthly t oidain to the ministry; For to lay on hands
in the two last cases ministers, we think, are authorized from
the examples of the New Testament, for the churches safety.
In the vi chap, of Acts: 'Look you out among yourselves seven
men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghostj and wisdom,
whom you may appoint.' Here laying on of hands was not to
give the Holy Ghost, but to appoint, to set apart, and ordain to
office, to the concerns of the poor of the church, &c. Then in
xiii of Acts, read: 'As they ministered, (who! to wit: Barnabas,
Simeon, Lucius, Manaen and Saul, these five teachers were all
in the church at Antioch,) the Holy Ghost said, (to the church,)
separate me Barnabas and Saul to the work whereunto 1 have
called them; and when they had fasted and prayed, and laid
their hands on them they sent them away.' Here you see Paul
and Barnabas were ministering in the church before hands were
laid on them; then it was not to give them the gift of the miriis'
try, nor the Holy Ghost; but to set apart, and ordain Barnabas
and Saul to the office of the ministry, to administer the ordi
nances, to plant churches in the heathen world; without which
ordination no man has a right to do, or they either. Then lay
ing on of hands of a presbytery, conveys nothing' but office, a
setting apart to office, a responsibility of office, a power to ad
minister the ordinances, a power to plant churches, a power to
feed and oversee the church of God arid rule over the church
according to God's word, as they that must give an account.
God commissioned John the Baptist, and Jesus Christ, to office;
Jesus Christ' commissioned and ordained the twelve and the
seventy; the church in Jerusalem and ihe apostles, ordained
the deacons; and the church at Antioch, with Simeon, Lucius
and Manaen, (who were teachers,) Barnabas and Saul to the
ministry. Thus the power of ordination of deacons or minis
ters is vested in the church, and none has a right to convey it
but the church, nor the power; and here she ought to bo cau
tious, very cautious, since she is accountable to Jesus Christ for
sending, or holding in fellowship, such as preach false doctrines.
Read the three first chapters of John's Revelations."
16. Resolved, that 500 copies of these Minutes be printed,
and distributed as usual to the several churches and sister As
sociations. 17. Resolved, that Elder JosErn Biggs he requested to tran
scribe these Minutes for the press, superintend the printing,
and record one copy on the Association records, and distribute
them as usual.
The Association then adjourned to the time and place ap
pointed, with an address by the Moderator, and prayer by El
der Joshua Lawrence.
WILLIAM HYMAN, Moderator.
JOSEPH BIGGS, Clerk.
The Ministers, and other Messengers, of the several Baptist churches,
belonging to the Kehukce Baptist Association, assembled at Flat Swamp
Meeting-House, Pitt county, North-Carolina, Saturday before the first
Sunday in October, 1831, to the respective churches they representGrace
be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
Once more, (by divine permission,) yc have enjoyed a happy, and plea
sing interview with each other, for which, we desire to give thanks unto
our gracious God and Father, and for sending his ministers to preach the
word of life to us; from whose lips our ears have been saluted with the
God-honoring and soul-comforting doctrine of salvation by grace.
Some of you will doubtless remember, that jn the year 1777, our Asso
ciation of churches was first formed, on our present plan and belief; and
that the History thereof, was published up to the year 1803 and that
there was a resolution adopted at our last Association (1830,) for its conti
nuance up to that time. m m
In the former History, is containedlhe abstract of the principles, (or be
lief,) of the churches that then formed the Association: But since those
day?, many hayc arisen, that have discarded these articles of belief, and
(continued on the last page.)