Twiggs County GaArchives Church Records.....Ebenezer Association
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Twenty-fourth Session at Beersheba, Twiggs County, Sept. 24, 1836. Introductory 
Sermon by Charwick A. Tharp, C.A. Tharp, Moderator, and James H. Loftin, Clerk. 
Three churches, Camp Creek, Ramah and Bulah, sent up a declaration of non-
fellowship with all the benevolent institutions of the day and persons engaged 
in them. A query was purposed as follows: are the institutions of the day such 
as Missions, Temperance, etc., consistent with articles of the faith of this 
Association, which after much debate was answered in the affirmative. On this 
decision the delegates of seven churches left the house, viz. Myrtle Spring, 
Mt. Nebo, Ramah, Cool Spring, Pleasant Plains, Camp Creek and Bulah and 
declared themselves to be the true Ebenezer Association and demanded the 
records, all of which was denied. It was then resolved that a difference of 
opinion on the institutions of the day should not be the ground of non-
fellowship among the brethren. Big Sandy Church was dismissed by letter. 
Recommended the churches to keep as a fast day the Saturday of their first 
meeting in the next year. Renewed correspondence with the Georgia and 
Washington Associations and opened correspondence with the Central Association. 
29 churches, 1259 members, 127 baptized; for Minutes $39.00; for fund $48.00. 
Circular letter on Christian Charity Love and Forbearance Towards all the 
People of God by Lott Warren. The Ministers present who were opposed to the 
institutions of the day were Black, Smith, Jones, Paine, Powell: those in favor 
were: Tharp, J.R. Hand, Hughs, Lancaster, Williamson and Baker. ———————————————-
 



Additional Comments:
Compiler's Note: The foregoing brief history of the Ebenzer Association was 
found in the Minute Book of Liberty Church, having been written nearly a 
century ago by Wiley Shepherd. 


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