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A Concise History of the Ketocton Baptist Association (1808)
An account of our regular annual meetings.
EVER since this association was constituted, we have had two annual meetings, one called the association, and the other the yearly meeting. The association, for a long time, has been holden on the Thursday before the third Lord's day in August -Thursday and Friday are generally employed in reading letters of intelligence from the several churches, and arranging and conducting such business as may appear of public utility to the churches -Saturday and Sunday have been generally taken up in preaching to the inhabitants, where many thousands frequently attend -this meeting has not been confined to anyone place, but has been appointed at many different places as it might appear most convenient. Our yearly meeting has been on the Saturday before the second Lord's day in June; this meeting is designed for the purpose of preaching. We have other preaching meetings occasionally, but not annually.
This association, at an early period, cultivated a correspondence, by letter and messenger, with the Philadelphia association, and that of Monongahela; and thereby received information of the progress and prosperity of religion in different places to a considerable extent -until the different associations of Baptists in Virginia thought proper to unite in general committee, for the purpose of securing our rights, for remonstrating against oppressive laws or unjust measures in government, and the petitioning for the repealing of laws which were injurious. When this committee was established, it became the medium of correspondence. Since the general committee discontinued, we have correspondence only with two or three of our neighboring associations; but we are favored in common with the minutes of most of the Baptist associations from north to south, and of the westward country, by some hand or other, either designedly or accidentally -so that knowledge is circulating and very informing, and heart-affecting intelligence afforded- in return it is our aim to circulate our minutes, and so join in diffusing information abroad.
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