Marion-Bibb-Sumter County GaArchives News.....The Buena Vista Colored Association of the Baptist church met in session here September 30 1887
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 39
September 30, 1887
Page Five

The Buena Vista Colored Association

The Buena Vista association of the colored Baptist church closed a three days’ 
session here Sunday night.  The association was organized nine years ago and 
now has thirty preachers.  The crowd in attendance was very large, having come 
from all the neighboring country, and was variously estimated at from 1,500 to 
2,000.  Rev. Strong, of Macon, preached to a large crowd in the courthouse yard 
Sunday morning, and a large crowd including many white people heard him.  His 
sermon was a practical one, somewhat on the Sam Jones order, and his theme was 
work – physical and spiritual labor.  Our sheriff, who is a prominent farmer, 
said the sermon was worth any farmer’s dollar and he donated that amount in the 
collection.  The Rev. Bryant, of Americus, preached at the courthouse at night 
at the special request of the whites, on the subject of charity, and his 
remarks were forcible and logical.  It is gratifying to note the progress the 
colored people are making in their religious affairs, and it is still more 
commendable that out of the large crowd which assembled here Sunday not a 
single discord was heard – not the slightest disturbance.  All the white people 
commended them for their good behavior.



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