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FOREWORD
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I f ind in the Baptist dcnominat ion many
~__l m embers who do not haYc timr, C''ipr<'ially
many business men, to familiarize thrmsrlw'> with
the general information about the working of the
denomination, also the fundamental doctrines of the
d enomination, and inasmuch as eYery member of
any denomination should fa miliarize him elf with
church goYernment and general church information, the writer fell on the following plan to gin
as much gener al information as possible in concrete
for m, for free distribution. As compliments of the
business and professional men of i\'orth Alabama,
who made this publication possible, the writer's
prayer is that the book may be a blessing to tho~l'
in t o whose hands it may fall.
T . J. H ALFACRE,
Pastor Baptist Church, Dora, Ala.
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What Every Baptist Should Know
Question: Who is President of the Southern Baptist Convention?
Answer: W. T. McGlothlin, D. D., of South Carolina.
Question: Who is the President of the State Convention of
Alabama?
Answer: Rev. T. E. Barton, D. D., Montgomery, Ala.
Question: Have the Baptists of Alabama an Orphanage?
Answer: Yes. It is located at Troy, Alabama.
Question : How many children do we have in the Orphanage
at this time at Troy, Alabama?
Answer: vVe have two hundred fifty-seven children.
Question : Who is the manager of the Orphanage ?
Answer : Rev. J. 0. Colley, of Troy, Alabama.
Question: How is . the Orphanage supported ?
Answer: By free-will offerings from the Baptists of the
State of Alabama.
Question : Who are eligible for the Baptist Orphanage ?
Answer: Children who are dependent upon the public for
support, mainly orphan children without homes.
Question: Have the Baptists of Alabama a real church pape r,
and where is it located 1
Answer: The Baptists of Alabama have a r eal church paper,
and it is located in Birmingham, Ala., 516 Lincoln TJif<.>
Bldg. Dr. L. L. Gwaltney is the efficient editor of thi6
paper.
Question: H ave the Baptists of Alabama a hospital and where
is it located 1
Answer: Yes. It is located in Selma, Ala. They also ha vc a
Hospital in Birmingham, Ala.
Question: IIow many Associations in the State of Alabama?
Answer: There are sixty-seven Associations in the Stat c of
Alabama.
Question: How many members do the Baptists haYe in the
State of Alabama?
Answer: The Baptists have 672,800 members in t he State of
Alabama.
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Question: Ilow many members do the other denominations
have in the State of Alabama Y
Answer: All other denominations have 544,370 members in
the State of Alabama.
Question: Ilow many states are there in the Southern Baptist Convention Y
Answer: There are eighteen states in the Southern Baptist
Convention.
Question: What states are they Y
Answer: Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida,
Georgia, Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.
guestion: How many members do the Baptists have in the
Southern Baptist Convention~
Answer: The Baptists have 6,635,811 members in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Question: How many members do all other denominations
have in these eighteen states?
Answer: All other denominations have 10,946,981 members
in these eighteen states.
Question: How many church members of all denominations do
we have in the world at this time?
Answer: 682,400,000.
Question: How many churches have the Southern Baptists 1
Answer: 24,274 churches.
Question: How many ordained ministers~
Answer : 22,700 ordained ministers.
Question: How many Sunday Schools ?
Answer: 21,399 Sunday Schools.
Question: llow many B . Y. P. D.'s Y
Answer: 22,850 B. Y. P. U.'s.
Question: llow many B. Y. P. U. members 1
Answre: 500,564 B. Y. P. U. members.
Question: How many W. 1\I. U. organizations?
Answer: 27,366 W. 1\I. U. organizations.
Question: How many \V. J\I. U. members Y
Answer: 523,736 members.
Question: What is the value of church property of the Southern Baptists?
Answer: $205,705,949.00.
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Question: How do Baptist Churches secure their pastors T
Answer: Baptist Churches call their pastors with at least a
majority vote of their members.
Question: How long can a Baptist preacher remain pastor of
a Baptist church f
Answer: As long as he wants to stay and the membership
wants him.
Question : What chur ch government does a Baptist Church
havef
Answer: Strictly Democratic government . E ach member has
a voice in every question that comes before the church.
Question: How many Deacons should a church have?
Answer: A church should have one Deacon .for every 25
church members. Other tha n this, there is no set rule as to
th e number of deacons any church may have.
Question: How many colleges have th e Baptists in t he State
of Alabama ?
Answer : The Bapt ists have two colleges in the State of Alabama : H oward College, Birmingham, Ala., and J udson
College for Girls, located at Marion, Ala.
Qu estion : Have the Baptists a high school which is owned
and suppor ted and controlled by the denomination?
Answer: Yes, Eldridge Baptist Academy, a R ome Mission
School under the dir ection of the Home Board. It is located a t Eldridge, Alabama, in the northwestern part of
t he State in the mountain mining district.
Question: Why should Baptists maintain Eldridge Academy?
Answer : In the first place, because it does the work that the
state colleges do not do and could not do. Second, it does
the Christian work that the high schools of the State can
n ot do. Third, it specializes on Bible study and Christian
t raining. As an eviden ce of the work this school is doing,
at t he end of the fir st thr ee months of t his session, all of
the dormitory students were converted except t wo. Regular Bible courses and prayer meetings daily build up the
spir~ual side of the students along with the literary work
tha t is offered. All of this can be given boys and girls at
the n ominal cost of $210.00 per school year, including their
boar d. The school also has connected with it a commercial
depa rtment where bookkeeping, shorthand. and typewriting is taugh t. These courses ar e offered at a nominal cost.
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PHONE 48
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Home Office Jasper, Ala.
Phone 32
Ambulance Service
Question: Can ·a church member be received into the church
by the pastor only?
Answer: No. A church member may be received into the
church by a un'a nimous vote of its membership.
Question: Ought a person to be received into the church who
has never been converted?
Answer: No. Every person who is r eceived into a Baptist
church not only accepts Jesus Christ as a personal Savior,
but convinces the church of the sincerity of the undertaking.
Question: How many ordinances are there belonging to the
Church of Christ?
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Answer: There are two ordinances belonging to the Church
of Christ.
Question: What are they T
Answer: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism is at the
threshold of the church, and the Lord's Supper is in the
church.
Question: Does the Baptist denomination teach Close Communion!
Answer: No. The Baptist denomination has been very much
misunderstood on this subject of communion, or the Lord's
Supper. The Baptists do not teach Close Communion, but
Close Baptism. In following the teaching of our Lord we
believe that the Lord's Supper was instituted for believers
and the denomination thinks according to the teaching of
the Holy Bible that baptized believers are the only persons
entitled to take the Lord's Supper.
Question: Will the Baptist Church accept other modes of
baptism-pouring or sprinkling Y
Answer: No. The Baptist denomination accepts immersion
only.
Question: Will other denominations accept the Baptist way
of baptizing their members?
Answer: Yes. All other Protestant denominations accept the
Baptists into their churches without rebaptizing them.
Question: W.qy do the Baptists baptize by immersion f
Answer: Because it is a command from Jesus Christ, and it
is in obedience to that command on our part.
It represents the death, burial and resurrection of our
blessed Cavior. It is the only ordinance that does repre9
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sent it. Therefore, sprinkling or pouring would not be
sufficient because it would not permit the person being
baptized to follow the full command of our Lord and Master. Baptism is not only an ordinance of the church, but
it is for believers only. It is also a confession of Life.
Question: Where will we find the scripture that proves that
the Baptist view on baptism is well founded?
Answer: There are many scriptures which prove that very
clearly. Some of the scriptures are as follows:
Matt. 3:1 to 17.
Acts 8 :26 to 39.
Romans 6 :4 to 11
These scriptures are sufficient within themselves to convince every Bible reader that the true mode of baptism is
by immersion, while some of the other Protestant denominations do not practice baptism by immersion. There are
none that say it is not right, and every denomination accepts baptisms from any Baptist church as being scriptural. Therefore the Baptist denomination contends that
immersion is the real scriptural mode, and our churches
practice this mode exclusively. Thus the Lord's Supper
is accepted by Baptists as for baptized believers only.
Therefore no one has the right to partake of the Lord's
Supper except baptized believers.
Question:. How are the Baptist Churches supported financially f
Answer: By free will offerings from its membership.
Question: How is the missionary work supported, both state
and foreign f
Answer: By the free will offerings of the members of the various Baptist Churches supporting the Co-operative Program.
Question: What is the Co-operative Program f
Answer : This program embraces every form of our co-operative work in which our Baptist people are engaged, foreign, home and state missions, ministerial relief, orphanages, hospitals, and our Baptist schools. This plan greatly
simplifies the appeal of the denomination to the churches.
It lays before our churches the whole denominational work
in one plan.
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Question : ·what is holdin g the mission work hack 111 many
places today 1
Answer: The lack of funds to support it.
Question : What plan do the Baptists advocate for rinancin~
the work?
Answer: The Bible plan.
Question: What is the Bible plan?
Answer: Giving a tenth of our income as God has prospcrrd
us. Regardless of what our income is, God expects us to
give Him the t enth to carry on His work in every department of it.
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Question: Is this idea justified by the Holy Scriptures?
Answer: It is, from Genesis to Revelation- in the old as well
as in the new dispensation, a tenth of our income has been
accepted as the minimum duty and not the maximum duty
of man according to the Holy Scriptures.
Question: Do the Baptists teach the belief that infants.
should be baptized? If n ot, why not?
Answer: No. Baptists do not teach that babies should be
baptized. There is not a r eal n eed of baptizing a child
until it r eaches the years of accountability and commits ar.
wilful sin in the sight of God; by virtue of the atonement
of Jesus, and in as much as He took the little child up i~
His arms and blessed it and said, "Suffer the little children
to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of heaven," and again said unless we became converted and became as a little child, we would not enter into
the kingdom of heaven. Not only did lie declare little
children co-possessors of the kingdom of God, but taught
that actual sin could not be transmitted; therefore while
the child is born in this world with the taints o£ sin, it is
not r esponsible for the sins of its ancestors, and notwithstanding the inherited tendencies, because of the fact that
J esus died that the innocent could have life, and that they
may have it more abundantly, and because of this fact
there is no need of repentance in infancy; therefore no need
of baptism until the year of accountability is reached and
the child becomes a believer in Jesus Christ.
Question: What does the Baptist teach on the question of
perseverance of the Saints?
Answer: Everyone who has saving faith in J esus Christ is a
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saint in the New Testament sense of the word. lie has
been regenerated and is being sanctified by the lloly Spiri t.
He has been set apart to the service of God and therefor e
he may justly be called a saint. He is a r egenerated soul
and is in process of purification, strengthened and exalted
by the Holy Spirit, and for this reason may justly be called
a saint. This does not mean that the man has already attained all scriptural excellence. A man is a saint by r eason
of the direction he is going rather than because of t he
stages of the journey he has already passed. The humblest
disciple of the earliest stage of the journey of his sanctification by the Spirit of God is a saint in the sense in which
that word is here used. The test of the reality of a believer
is endurance to the end. The stalk of wheat must be wheat
from the moment the seed germinates in the soil to the t ime
when the ripened ear of wheat is tested in the mill. Wheat •
naturally meets its test. It does not change to corn or tares.
He cannot be anything but wheat for the life of wheat is in
him. Believers are not left to resist, unaided, t he temptations which test them, nor is the help only that which is.
laid hold of by the soul in its extremity. The believer sustains a special relation to God. He is especially guarded
and helped by the Holy Spirit in times of need. The teaching of the .Apostle Paul was based upon his own experience
as well as his knowledge of the truth of God. Because of
that experience his testimony was confident and joyous.
This watchcare of Providence is comprehensive, sympathetic and sufficient. It is comprehensive. The Holy Spirit
knows all the way we take. There is no peculiarity in any
life which is not understood; no one has any occasion t(}
fear that his case is so different from all other cases that
it is not comprehended by the Providence that watches
over us. It is sympathetic. The Spirit of God deals with us
as with children, and this we need. We are strangely childish in our needs. Often our heartaches can harly be confessed, even to our nearest friends. They would not sympathize with us. Often it would be impossible to make them
understand, but the sympathy that we need comes f rom one
who knows how to sympathize with child or man and gives
us just the sympathy we need at all times. The watchcare
of Providence is also sufficient. The provision for our saf-
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Day Phone
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Night Phone 66
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ALABAMA
W . T. BELL, Vice-Pres.
Short &Bell Insurance and Burial
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n ay P hone s 9o
Night Pho:Re 591
GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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325 West Twentieth Street
J asper, Alabama
ety is adequate. Whatever fears we may have when we
think of our own insuf ficiency, we may dismiss all fear
when we think of the source of our help. Our help has been
laid upon One who is mighty to save. In this perseverance
the Power that keeps the believer , is keeping him unto salvation, and salvation is more than access to heaven. Access
to heaven is a par t of salvation. Ther e lies before us a
better world than t his. There remaineth a r est to the peo~
ple of God. "I go to prepare a place for you," said J esus.
We cannot emphasize too much the preciousness of our
h eavenly hope, but to think of salvation as a mere access to
heaven is not sufficient. Salvation has a present as well as
a future meaning. The Holy Spirit not only k eeps us fo r
the hour when we have access to heaven, but he keept us
at present from the pr esent evil in the world. The perseverance of the saints which comes by fait h and figh ting on
the believer 's part, and by the imparted grace of God
through the Holy Spirit, is a life of victory in a path which
shines more and more even unto the perfect day.
Stewardship
~ HEN we think of the great question of Stewardship and
\ l } what a correct Bible conception of it means to us, it behooves us to think of t his great theme in a practical as well as
a spiritual way. E very life is a plan of God. W e have not
made our appearance in this world mer ely by chance; but our
exist en ce her e was scientifically planned. We are not children
of God merely by chance; but if we are His children, it is because we purposely came into contact with Him as a personal
Savior an d because of a sorrow for sin ; a conscientious repentance on our par t ; and because of His taking our sins on
H imself through justification, regeneration, and adoption on
His part. We were purposely born into H is family as His
true sons and daughters. Therefore we not only became His
children, but H e has made us stewards in llis kingdom and
has entr usted to us the material t hings of this world. \Ye are
not our own. We are bought with a price-with the blood of
our Lord and Master-and t her efore we belong to llim with
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a command to do His will. Let us look into His word and see
just what He would have us do as His stewards left here as
human agents to lead the lost to Christ. When we think about
what we really own in this world we finally decide that though
we may have property in our name for a little while, it soon
passes, and the ultimate decision is that it all belongs to God,
and He has only entrusted it to us as His stewards for a little
while. The realization of the tremendous responsibility that
rests upon us should ever be in our minds. So let us look into
His relation to us and see what He expects of us as His stewards.
He expects us as stewards to give an accolint first of our
time, as He expects at least a seventh of it spent in direct efforts o£ bringing the lost to Christ and in praise and worship.
He requires at least one-tenth of our income in a financial
way. Let us see what the scriptures say about this.
Question: What was the law concerning the tithe in the Old
Testament dispensation Y
Answer: "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed
of the land, or the fruit of the tree, belongs to the Lord;
and all the tithe of the herd or the flock; whatsoever
passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be Holy unto the
Lord."-Leviticus 27:30-32.
Question: Did the Old Testament law provide for free-will
offerings in addition to the required tithe?
Answer: Yes. Deut. 16:10-17.
Question : Did Jesus command liberal giving?
Answer: Remember the words of the Lord Jesus that how
He, Himself, said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."-Acts 20 :35.
Question: Do the teachings of the Apostle Paul indicate both
liberal and systematic giving f
Answer: Yes. "Upon the first day of the week let each one
of you lay by him in store as he may prosper."-!. Cor
16 :2. Also II. Cor. 8 :11.
Question: Will blessings follow upon such giving?
Answer: Yes. "Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse
that there may be food (meat) in (mine) my house and
prove me now herewith said the Lord of hosts, if I will not
open (you) the windows of heaven and pour you out a
blessing."-Mal. 310. Also II. Cor. 9 :10.
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Our Deacons
Question : W hen was the first d eacon elected 1
Answer : In th e f irst church Christ established, during the
apostolic t imes. T he apostles were over-worked and could
not do the pr eaching, visiting the sick, attend to the finances and ma ke t he necessary distributions of the financial
end of the work satisfactorily t o the congregation, and because of t his the people began t o murmu r because they
thought their widows were being neglected in their daily
ministrations. Thus, the idea of the necessity of a deacon
was caused and the apostles suggested the matter to the
church and the church a pproved the idea and proceeded
to elect seven deacons with a unanimous vote f rom the
church.
Question: What are the qualifications of a deacon 1
.Answer : .A deacon should be a good man, morally and spiritually, clean and earnest Christian worker, and should be
the husband of one wife, but this does not mean that a man
without a wife could not be a deacon. It simply means.
that the deacon should control his own house and be the
head of the home; and if he has a wife, be true to her. H e
should also be sober. He sholud not drink intoxicatingdrinks. The deacon should not be double-tongued- he
should not gossip and talk about his people. H e should bea man_of good character, also a good reputation. H e should
be tr uthful that people will have confidence in his daily
walk. He should be well informed as to t he workings of
his church, and the doctrines of his church. H e should attend all of t he services of the church. H e should be willing, at all times, to assist the pastor in the general wor k
of the church . The deacon should be instrumental in t he
development of the social life of the church. The deacon
should be instr umen tal in helping to look after the finances.
of the church- put ting on t he every-member canvass and
h elp t o car ry out t he Co-operative P r ogram. 'rhe deacon
should help tq administer the Lord's Supper and co-operate wit h t he pastor in every possible way. H e should r ead
his Bible regularly and be a man of prayer.
A Gospel Church
Question: W hat is a Gospel Church Y
Answer: The word church designates a company of people
called out from others ap.d j oined together in a body by
themselves. It is compoesd of p eople living on the ear t h
and so r elated as t o f orm a company which can be seen of
men. This phrase, visible church, is used in describing a
company of baptized believers . They are called out of the
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world by Christ. They are a p eople saved by IIim ; baptized in His name and walking in fellowship with IIim.
They heard Him say, "Come unto me," and they gather ed
about llis person. They became disciples and servants.
They learned of Him. They accepted all of Iris teachings.
They accepted His entire message to man. They not only
learned of Him in His teachings, but obeyed H im in what
H e has commanded. They are governed by the Jaws of
Christ. It relates to conduct toward God; it relates to conduct toward men; it also relates to conduct as memberc; of
the church. It includes practices of worship and obedience
of ordinances. In fact it includes the whole duty of man.
Question: Why do they come to Christ at His call ?
Ans,ver: They come as believers. They come to receive blessings at His hand. They come in recognition of !lis authority. They come because of the lure of His gracious fellowship. All of this is based on their faith in llim. They expect blessings because they have faith in llim. They yield
t o His authority because t.fiey have faith in Him. They ar e
won by His person because they have faith in llim. It is the
man who has been born again by the Holy Spirit who hearkens to the call of Christ and becomes a part of His church,
having accepted Christ as Lord as well as Savior, and ha ving accepted His commands, and having been baptized on
profession of their faith, they become members of a Gospel
Church. This not only brings them under guidance of J esus,
but it brings them into association with each other because
each has entered into covenant with Christ. - This covenant
is the covenant of those who share in the faith and fell owship of the gospel. The scope of the relationship is defi ned
therefore in terms of grace and eternal life.
Question : How is a gospel church governed ?
Answer: A gospel church is governed entirely by Christ. All
its rules and regulations are based on His teachings. I t
does not accept man-made laws. A church cannot serve two
masters. It will recognize but one head, and that head is
J esus Christ. Therefore, because of this fideli ty to its head,
it claims all of the rights and privileges which the wor d of
God promises.
Question: Who are the officers of a gospel church ?
Answer: The officers of a gospel church are pastors and deacons. Pastors may be called bishops. The differe nce in
name may be due to the different aspects of t heir work.
When a pastor is thought of as a shepherd of the flock, he
may be called a bishop. Every pastor is a bishop and every
bishop is a pastor.
A deacon is a helper in the church, discha rging cer tain
duties for which he is competent and to which be bas been
set apart by the chur ch.
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The New Testa1nent Church
~ HE New Testam en t church accepts the unity, sufficirncy
\...) and t he sole au thority of the scriptures ac:; the rul e both
of doctrine and of polity. It r equires credible evidence of regener ation and conversion as prerequisite to church membership ; immersion only, as answering to our Lord's command of
baptism and to the symbolic meaning of the ordinance; the
order of the or dinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper as
of divine a ppointment as well as t he ordinances themselves; a
right of each member of the church to a voice in its government an d discipline; the freedom of individual conscience;
and independence of church and state; t he r equirement of
those who are baptized t o have had a previous experience of
grace, accept ing Christ's deity and atonement; these are the
r equirements and st andards fo r a gospel church.
The World to Come
Question: How many worlds does the New Testament speak
of ?
Answer: T wo. The present world, and the world t o come.
Question: Will the world finally come t o an end Y
Answer : Yes. The world will f inally come to an end.
Question: W ill we have a general judgment Y
A nswer : Yes. According t o Revelat ion, we will haYe a general judgment day. When the graves will give up their
dead and the sea shall give up its dead, and the wicked
and righteous will be separated foreve r.
Question: Will the soul of man live forever ?
Answer: Yes. The soul of man will live f orever. The annihilation of the soul of man is not taught in scriptures, but
the scriptures t ea ch that the soul of man never dies.
Question: Wher e will the wicked, or those who fail to accept
God, go ?
Answer : The wicked shall be cast into · helL-Mat t. 25 :41 ;
Luke 16 :23; Rev. 20 :15; Matt. 10:28 ; II. P et. 2:4; Jude 6 ;
Ps. 9:17.
Man is a free mora l agent , capable of choosing between
good and evil, and inasmuch as man is a free moral agent,
one place necessitates the other. When He made my eyes
He made the light to meet them. When He made my soul,
H e made heaven for its home, and for the same r eason the
lower world or hell was made for the unbelievers or those
who fail to accept J esus. On the day of judgment the
wicked will be turned into hell and they will not complain,
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because they will know that is the place for them, and the
righteous shall go into full fellowship with God. This is
heaven. This is the reward for righteousness. The ri~ht
eous will not boast of being in heaven, because they were
not saved on their own merits, but by the grace of God.
Neither will the wicked blame God, because of their wickedn ess.
Question: When will this day come?
.Answer: That is something no one knows. Jesus said lie did
n ot know. Even the angels in heaven did not know, but
He did give us the assurance t ha t it is coming sometimes,
and the great lessons H e gave in that connection were for
us to be r eady, because we know not when He is coming.
So th e gr ea t watchword for us is, be ready when lie comes.
Declaration of Faith
1. On the Scriptures-We believe that the Holy Bible was
written by men divinely inspired, and is a perfect treasure of
heavenly instr uction; that it has God f or its author, salvation
for its end, and truth without mixture of error for its matter;
that it reveals t he principles on which God will judge us; and
t her efore is and will remain to the end of the world the true
center of Christian union and the supreme standard by which
all human conduct, cr eeds and opinions, should be tried.
2. Of the True God-That there is one true and living God
wh ose n ame is J ehovah, the maker and supreme rules of heaven and earth, inexpressibly glorious in holiness; worthy of all
p ossible honor, confidenc and love, revealed under the personal and r elative distinction of the Father, the Son, and the
H oly Gh ost; equal in every divine perfection, and executing
distinct bu t har monious offices in the great work of redempti on.
3. On the Fall of Man-That man was created in a state
of holiness, under the law of his Maker; by voluntary transgression fell from the holy and happy state, in consequence
of which all mankind are now sinners, not by constraint, but
by choice; being by nature u tterly void of that holiness required by the law of God, wholly given to the gratification
of t he world, or Satan, and of their own sinful passions, and
ther efore under just condemnation of eternal ruin without defense or excuse.
4. Of the Way of Salvation-That the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace, through the mediatorial offices of the
Son of God, 'vho took upon himself our nature, yet without
sin; honored the law by H is personal obedience and made
atonement for our sins by His death, being risen from the dead,
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son, the t enderest sympathies with divine perfection , in every
way qualified to be a suitable, a compassionate and all-sufficient Savior.
5. Of Justif cation- That the great gospel blessings which
Chr ist of His fu lness bestows on such as believe in Uim in justification, that justif icat ion consist in the pardon of si n and
the promise of et ernal life, on principles of r ighteousness tha t
is not bestowed in consideration of any work of righteousness
which we have done, but solely through its own r edemptions
and righteousness that it brings us into a state of most blessed
peace and favor with God, a nd secure every blessing needful
for time and eternity.
6. Of the F r eeness of Salvation-That the blessin gs of salYation are made f r ee to all by the gospel ; that it is the immediate duty of all t o accept them by cor dial and obedient fa ith,
and that nothing pr events the salvation of the greatest sin ner
on earth except his own voluntary r efusal to submit t o the
Lord J esus Christ, which ref usal will submit him t o an aggravated condemnation.
7. Of Gr ace and Redemption- That in order to be saved
we must be regener at ed and born again; that r egeneration
consists in giving a holy disposition to the mind, and is eff ected in a manner above our comprehension or calculated by
the power of t he Holy Spirit so as to secure our voluntary
obedience to the Gospel ; and tha t its proper evidence is our
voluntary obedience found in t he holy frui t which we bring
f ort h in the glory of God.
8. Of God's Purpose of Grace-Tha t election is the gracious purpose of God; according to which lie regenerates,
san ctifies and saves sinners; t hat being perfectly con~istent
with the mor al agency of man, it compr ehends all the means
in connection with the end; that it is a most glorious displa~
of God's sovereign goodness, being infini tely wise, holy and
unchan geable; t hat it utterly excludes boasting, and promotes
humility, prayer , praise, tr ust in God and a ctive imitation of
His f r ee mer cy; that it encourages the use of means in the
highest degr ee; then it ascertain ed by its eff ects in all who be.
lieved in t he Gospel ; it is the foundation of Christian assurance, and t hat t o ascertain it with regard to ourseh·cs. demands and deser ves our u tmost diligence.
9. Of the Preservation of t he Saints-That such onh· are
r eal believers as endure to the end; that the perseYerin'g attachment to Christ is t he grand mark which distinguishes them
from the superf icial professors; that a special Providence
watches over their welfare and they are kept by t he powet·
of God through faith u nt o salva tion.
10. Harmony of the Law and Gospel-That the law of
God is eternal and unchangea ble rule of H is government;
that it is h oly, just and good, and the inability which the
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Scrip tures ascr ibe to fallen men to fulfill its precepts arises
~n tirely f rom their love of sin; to deliver them from which
an d restor e them through a Mediator to unfeigned obedience
to the Holy Law is one great end of the gospel and of the
means of grace, connected with the establishment of His visible church.
11. Of a Gospel Church-That a visible church of Christ
is a congregat ion of baptized believers, associated by covenant in t he faith and fellowship of the gospel observing the
ordinance of Christ, governed by His laws and exercisin g the
gifts, rights and privileges invested in them by His wor d ;
that its pr oper officer s are bishops or pastors and deacons,
whose qualifications, claims and duties are defined in t he Epistles of Timothy and Titus.
12. Of Baptism and th e Lord's Supper- That Christian
Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name
of the F ather, Son, and Spir it; to sh ow for th in solemn and
beautiful emblem of our f aith in a crucified, buried and r isen
Savior ; that it is prerequisite to the privilege of a church relation and t hat the Lord's Supper, in which t he members of
the church, by use of bread and wine, ar e to commemorate
together t he dying love of Christ pr eceded always by solemn
self-explanation.
13. Of the Christian Sabbath-That the fir st day of the
week is the Lord's Day or Christian Sabbath, and that it is t o
be kept sacr ed to religious purposes by abstaining from all
secular labor and recreation, by devout observation of all
means of gr ace, both private and public, and by preparation
fo r the r est which r emaineth for the people of God.
14. Of Civil Government-That civil government is of divine appointment for the interest and good of human society,
and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed except in things opposed to the will of th e
Lord J esus Christ, who is the only Lord of conscience and the
Prince of the kings of the earth.
15. Of the Righteous and Wick ed- That there is a radical
and essential differ ence between the r ight eous and wicked ;
that such as only t hrough the faith are justified in the name
of the Lord J esus and sanctified by the spirit of God are t ruly
righteous in His esteem, while such as continue in impenitence
and unbelief are in His sight wicked, and under the cu rse of
this dsitinction holds among men in and after death.
.
16. Of the World t o Come-That the end of the world is
approaching, and that at the last day Christ will descend from
heaven and raise the dead f rom the grave to final retribution ;
that separation will then take place, and the wicked will be
adjudged to endless punishment, and the righteous to endless
joy, and that t he judgment will fix forever the final state of
men in heaven or in hell on principles of righteousness.
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