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Semple well says: “All things considered, a better answer could not probably
have been given.” f1011
In its circular letter, the Middle District association, in 1791, said:
“We fear covetousness and want of reasonable support of the ministry, is one
great reason why we are so languish in religion. f1008 When our ministers
ought to be out and working in God’s vineyard, behold they are forced to
leave the flock, hungering for the bread of life, while they are struggling to
provide necessaries for their families.” f1012
Commenting on this, Semple says:
“When we consider the many publications upon this subject, as well as the
clear and obvious manner in which it is laid down in the Scriptures, it is
somewhat astonishing that this duty is still so little attended to. What is man at
his best estate?” f1012
The Ketocton association of Virginia, at its meeting in 1791, had before it the
question “as to the propriety of it church’s requiring of each of her members to
contribute to the expenses of the church according to their property,” in answer
to which
“the association determined that a regulation of that kind in a church was
lawful, and that persons that would not submit to it deserved exclusion from
the privileges of the church … the correctness of which cannot be doubted
upon right principles.” f1013
“The Georgia association was organized in 1784. In 1801 a letter was
addressed to this body on the propriety and expediency of forming a
Missionary Society in this State for the purpose of sending the gospel amongst
the Indians, bordering on our frontiers, which was unanimously and cordially
approbated,’ on which Jesse Mercer remarks: ‘The ministers of those times
had too much of the spirit of the Apostles in them to be afraid of missions.’”
f1014
Of its meeting in 1814 its minutes say:
“According to a suggestion in the letter from the Whateley’s Mill church,
Brother Mercer presented and read the circular letter and constitution of the
‘Savannah Baptist Society for Foreign Missions and then moved for the
approbation of the association, which was given most willingly and
unanimously — whereupon it was thought proper to recommend the subject
for its evident importance, to the consideration of the churches. … The
glorious effort to evangelize the poor heathen in idolatrous lands.” f1015
In its minutes of 1815 we read:
“Received from the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States,
through its agent, Rev. Luther Rice, the report of the Board, accompanied by