Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

In an article in the Standard, Prof. Howard Osgood, D.D., than whom there is
no higher authority on this subject, says:
“Like their brethren in southern Europe they sought only soul liberty, freedom
to serve God according to their understanding of the Scriptures, while they
acknowledged their full duty of obedience to the civil power in all matters not
contrary to God’s word. Their church discipline was strict, almost to severity,
and wherever they were allowed to remain in peace the desert smiled and
bloomed around them. They sought to obtain no deserted Roman Catholic
church buildings for themselves; they were renowned for the purity of their
domestic relations in life; and in their confessions and practice they urged the
duty of complete religious liberty for all. … They hold that there could be no
contradiction between God’s doctrine of his church and of salvation, that
election and justification by faith and regeneration by the Spirit result in a
church of believers. To bring in those as children who give no evidence of
having been elected of faith, or of regeneration, is to institute a practice at war
with the doctrines and for which there is not the first evidence of Scripture. …
The claims of Baptists were, freedom to preach the gospel, to form churches
after the scriptural pattern which should be separated from the world and
worldlings, to exercise church discipline over their members, and that each
church should have entire control over its own ecclesiastical affairs without
interference of the State. … They choose their own pastors and supported
them and sent forth a multitude of missionaries so that Melancthon could say
that they went where no evangelical, Lutheran and Zwinglian, had penetrated.
… For a hundred years Switzerland was drained of her sturdy sons, who in
great numbers braved the loss of their goods and the long journey through
hostile territory and the price set upon their heads by the Bavarian dukes in
order to reach Moravia, where they might enjoy some little freedom to
worship God. From Moravia, they sent out missionaries in scores to all parts
of Germany, Tyrol and Switzerland, to Hungary, Silesia and Poland, who
took their lives in their hands that they might preach the word of their
Redeemer and raise up churches to his praise. The Romish church historians
say that these missionaries were very successful in their efforts to delude the
people.”
While speaking of these Baptists and missions I will here quote from a letter
recently received from one of the highest authorities on this subject, Rev.
W.W. Everts, Jr.:
“I am much interested in your question about missions and the Anabaptists.
They were the most determined colporteurs and missionaries throughout
Europe. The only reference I have found to any heathen land I have given in
Armitage, where the persecuted flock think of settling in America among ‘the
red Jews Columbus has just discovered.’ This was in 1524, I believe.”
Though I have already noticed that they agreed with present Baptists against
Campbellite positions, I will give further proofs of this. As to believing