Nine Mile Church, DuQuoin, Perry County,
Illinois
Quotations showing the claims of Missionary Baptist historians regarding Nine Mile Church - Part 1
Quotations showing the claims of Missionary Baptist historians regarding Nine Mile Church - Part 2
Reply to the above articles, and corrections of
mistakes.
Other comments regarding the history of Nine Mile
Church.
The Missionary Baptists claim priority in the case of the division
which occurred in Nine Mile Church, near DuQuoin, Illinois. In this
case, the Missionary party was in the majority (whereas, in the
case of Sugar Camp Creek, Bethlehem, and others which divided, they
were not). As a result, the Missionary party retained the original
site, although they soon moved it. But the original platform
(constitution, articles of faith, and rules of decorum, and members
of the presbytery) on which the church was founded, was retained by
the Regular Baptists.
The records of Nine Mile Primitive Baptist Church beginning in May 1844, complete through October 1957, have been preserved, as well as most of the records (annual minutes) of the Bethel Association. The names of some of the charter members of Nine Mile Church in 1829, appear in the records of the Primitive Baptist Church in 1844, showing that they remained faithful to the original principles of the church.
The records of Nine Mile Church also show that a division, caused by the introduction of the modern mission system, occurred in the Holt's Prairie Church, in March 1847. Reference is made to the Holt's Prairie Church (Primitive Baptist) in the records of Nine Mile Church as late as 1887, forty years after the division.
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