1842 Circular Letter of the Fishing River Association (Missouri)

BELOVED BRETHREN — Wishing you health, and salvation, and if anything more loving and charming can be expressed from the bowels of the Christian religion, we give all diligence to write unto you of the “common salvation.” The great Shepherd has been very mindful of his sheep for many ages past, and although they have been persecuted and put to death in almost every age for 1800 years, yet he, who controls the destiny of men and nations, has turned it all to the furtherance of the gospel of Christ, and the establishment of that kingdom which is never to end.