Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

George Washington wrote to the Baptists:
“I recollect with satisfaction that the religious society of which you are
members, have been throughout America, uniformly and almost unanimously
the firm friends of civil liberty, and the persevering promoters of our glorious
revolution.” f1054
Everywhere Baptists have opposed any union of church and State. Founding
Rhode Island, they welcomed all to find refuge under their banner of freedom.
Judge Story says of the Baptist founding of Rhode Island:
“In the code of laws established by them we read for the first time since
Christianity ascended the throne of the Caesars, that conscience niust be free.”
f1055
Bancroft says Rhode Island “is the witness that naturally the paths of the
Baptists are the paths of pleasantness and peace.” f1056 The article on religious
liberty in the American Constitution, “was introduced into it by the united
efforts of the Baptists in 1789,” f1057
Early in this century, the king of Holland proffered the Baptists State financial
aid. This, of course, they refused. In Virginia, in 1784, when Baptists, in their
struggle for the separation of church and State had well nigh conquered,
Pedobaptists proposed the compromise of taxing the people to support all
denominations. This compromise they vehemently rejected. f1053
Through the influence of Episcopalians in Georgia, in 1785, a law was passed
to establish churches — union of church and State. It gave all denominations
equal privileges. But the year it was passed Baptists sent messengers to the
legislature and finally procured its repeal.
Thus, that the United States would have been a union of church and State, had
it not been for Baptists — for Baptist principles nipping it in the bud — is
clear.
In various parts of Europe, England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, etc.,
Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians and Lutherans, are united with the
State. In the United States, near all the leading Protestant denominations, with
the Romish church, receive government aid for their Indian missions. The
Protestant Standard says:
“During three years, the Methodists have received from the government, for
Indian missions, $33,345; in six years, the Presbyterians, $286,000; the
Congregationalists, $183,000; the Friends, $140,000; the Episcopalians,
$102,000; and the Romish church the modest sum of one million, nine
hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars.”
Not knowing Baptist principles this paper says: