1860 Circular Letter of he Upper Canoochee Association

DEAR BRETHREN, WHILE WE STIR UP your pure minds by way of remembrance, we wish to show from whence these good works flow. We have before stated that we were, by nature, the children of wrath, even as others; and we believe that nature is prone to evil. But, brethren, that individual whom the Lord has visited by His Holy Spirit, enlightening the mind by grace, shining into the heart, the spirit is quickened, life is communicated, and the light of the knowledge of the glory of God given in the face of Jesus Christ (II Cor. iv:6), and thereby a holy principle is implanted by the spirit of God: from which principle flow holy desires, holy motives, and every good work, “for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”—Phil ii:13.