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A Concise History of the Ketocton Baptist Association (1808)
An Account of the Death of Elder Daniel Fristoe.
DANIEL FRISTOE was born in December, 1739, of parents of middling circumstances in the world. When young he received a tolerable English education -was not addicted to profane language, or the grosser immoralities of the times and place where he lived; but in what is called civil recreation he excelled, attending balls, fiddling and dancing, and other fashionable sports in which his heart was delighted, until he arrived at about 22 or 23 years of age, at which time he went a considerable distance to hear a Baptist minister preach. At the meeting his horse got away, which obliged him to tarry all night at the place. It being at the house of a Baptist, and several others coming in, who professed to be converted, and entering on religious conversation, brought strange things to his ears; their talk was about the wretched state sin had involved them in; of the absolute need they were in of the precious blood of Christ to wash them from pollution, and remove their guilt, and the robe of His righteousness to adorn their souls; the need they stood in of the supplies of grace, to bear them up under all their trails and conflicts -after which he returned home quite serious, and conversed frequently with his friends and relations on these important and interesting subjects. He had to wade for a considerable time through much distress of mind, and under a weighty load of guilt, until through rich, free, and sovereign grace, God was pleased to remove his burthen and reveal a Saviour to his soul, which through his life afterwards he gave proof of. He then repaired to the church of God, related his experience, was baptized, and gave himself a member of the Baptist church. Soon after he accustomed himself to pray in public, and delivered exhortations with a great deal of warmth. In this course he continued for several years, until the church called him to exercise his gift in preaching, in which he gave general satisfaction. Although his knowledge in the sacred scriptures, and his manner of communicating his ideas in that easy and intelligible manner, was not equal to many others, yet his warmth and engagedness in treating on common and interesting subjects, rendered him very useful in awakening sinners, and stirring up and warming the hearts of Christians. He was employed but a few years in the ministry, before he was sent a messenger from Ketocton to the Philadelphia association. When there he took the smallpox, and after a short tour of preaching in New Jersey, returned again to Philadelphia, and was taken with the fever, but continued at Marcus Hook, (a small town this side of Philadelphia,) where he died in the thirty-fifth year of his age. His remains were carried back to Philadelphia and interred in the Baptist burying ground. He left several desolate congregations, a widow, one son and six daughters, to make their way through this desert land and vast howling wilderness.
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