Excerpt from The Millennial Harbinger, 1853, Vol. 3: Series IV In order to reach my appointments in Missouri, I was obliged to leave Mrs. Campbell and children to return, after a few days, to Beth any, via Cincinnati, and to hasten to Hannibal, where my labors were to commence. Accompanied by Elder Fife, we reached this flourishing town on Saturday, at 1 o 'clock, after a pleasing sail 01 some twenty hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Millennial Harbinger, Vol. 3: January 2, 1832 Brownfield, Secretary of the Association, who then. Opposed, and always Opposed our union, unless we would worship'the Philadelphia idol, the little book drawn up by a few English Baptists in 1689 against Arminianism, and adopted in Philadelphia in 1742 by an Association of Baptists. We then regarded, and still regard the Baptist denomination as nighest the old platform in the New Testa ment, of any of the sects into which the christian world has been rent under the influence of the 'man of sin but not on account of the doctrinal Views of that sect: for it would be yet impossible to say what they are in any one latitude in this union. They vary like the soil of the country from Georgia to Maine; but in the general views of the kingdom of grace and of admission into it, in abhorrence of councils, synods, and authoritative tribunals, and in the necessity of faith, repentance, baptism, a new creature, and in many other items then sacred, but now lost sight of by many of that sect, we cordially united with them not for. Our benefit, but for theirs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Millennial Harbinger, 1839, Vol. 3: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Primitive Christianity We had formed a resolution before we arrived at Fredericks burg, not to pay any attention to the speculations which for some time had been sedulously taught and pmpegated by a few friendsof universal discussion. 1 hold fast my resolution till I got down to Tappahannock; but finding that some two or three individuals, in almost every church, still kept the' matter alive; and thus, besides disturbing the peace of the congregations, neutralized the proclamation of the word to those without, i found myself compelled to speak first in private, and then, on one or two occasions, in public, on these roots of bitterness and discord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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