Predestinarian Association, at Turman's Creek Church, Decatur Co., Tennessee, September 1905.
From the minutes of Monday, after the fourth Sunday in September 1905, the following appears:
Called on the committee on resolutions. They reported the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:
Whereas, information has reached us, the truth of which we have no reason whatever to doubt, that certain ministers of the church at Fulton, Ky., within the bounds of the Greenfield-Philesic Association, viz., Elder J. V. Kirkland and Elder R. S. Kirkland, are, and have been, introducing new doctrines and practices among the Primitive Baptists, which are contray to the time-honored principles of the fathers, and is destructive to the peace of the Baptists, to-wit: "federal government of the churches," "that the commission was given to the church", "a national publishing house for the Baptists," "affiliation with, and membership in, secret organizations." Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Predestinarian Association, now in session, that we consider all the above things unauthorized by the word of God, contrary to the principles held by the Primitive Baptists for hundreds of years, and is a complete surrender of the principles for which the church has contended since its organization, and we heartily endorse the course of the union meeting held at Martin Church of the Greenfield-Philesic Association in withdrawing fellowship from Fulton Church for holding to and endorsing the principles and practices set out above; and we make this declaration that all our correspondents, and the Primitive Baptists in general, may know where we stand on this question, and further, that we do not desire these things advocated in the churches composing this association.
Resolved, further, that it is the wish of this body that a copy of these resolutions be published in "The Primitive Baptist," that our brethren everywhere may know at once where we stand on these questions.
Respectfully submitted,
Elder S. E. Reid,
J. M. Malone,
Committee.
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