Unknown County GaArchives Church Records.....Georgia Baptists United Association Copyright Date 1874
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THE UNITED ASSOCIATION.

  Was constituted by Cyrus White, Barnabas Strickland, etc., at Teman, Henry
county, September, 1832. The churches had been in fellowship with the regular
Baptists, but had withdrawn from the Ocmulgee and Flint River on account of some
of their measures, which those churches considered oppressive. Sharon, Paran,
Sardis, etc., had joined in a Convention to consult on the best course to
pursue, in 1830, and had adopted articles of faith. But those churches were
unwilling to unite in an Association with Cyrus White and other ministers
identified with him, who were believed to be Arminian in their sentiments, and
injudicious in some of their measures. In 1834, Sharon, Sardis, Paran and
McDonough united with the Central, on the old confession of faith, adopted by
the older Associations formed in the State.

  To the articles known as “The Sharon Faith" there can be no great objection,
as it is pretty much in the language of scripture. Still, those who held to it
with the greatest tenacity were charged with a want of faith in principles
sacred to the Baptists throughout the world. At the ministers' meeting in
Forsyth, in 1836, some of the ministers of this Association would not unite with
the mass of ministers from every part of the State in subscribing to the old
confession above referred to. On the other hand, some of the preachers in the
Ocmulgee and Flint River had wandered off into hyper-Calvinism, or fatalism; and
it would be very natural for those who were at variance with them, to run into
the opposite extreme.

  B. Strickland was moderator for three years, and E. Dodson, clerk from its
formation. In 1836 the bounds were so extensive that the body agreed to divide;
those churches in Jasper, Henry, etc., retained the old name, and those in
Harris and other western counties are known as the "United Chattahoochee
Association." In 1839, William Byars was messenger from the United Association
to the State Convention, with contributions for missions and other benevolent
objects. For though these Associations held no correspondence with other bodies
of the Baptists in the State, still they were all missionary in their
principles, and were ever ready to contribute liberally of their substance for
their Master's cause.

  If any churches of this order are now in existence (1874,) the fact is unknown
to the author.


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GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
BY
J. H. CAMPBELL,
PERRY, GEORGIA.


MACON, GA.: J. W. BURKE & COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
J. H. CAMPBELL,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


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