Caldwell County MO Archives History .....HOW JAMES BROOKSHIRE BECAME A PRIMITIVE BAPTIST 
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HOW JAMES BROOKSHIRE BECAME A PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
	Narrator:  James Brookshire, 80

     The hardshell or Primitive Baptist church is one of the oldest in 
Caldwell and Daviess counties.  In fact, the Old Log Creek Baptist Church of 
Caldwell county, according to one of its members, Elder Cravens, near Polo, 
goes back to 1840.  Records say that the Primitive Baptists preachers were the 
first to preach in the county.
     Mr. James Brookshire (or Brookshier as some spell it) belonged to a 
family of Hard shell Baptists, but he himself had not gone into the church.  
Before his death, he told the interviewer something about the feeling of this 
church toward church membership.  They have no paid ministry, but any one of 
the members may be inspired to exhort and pray, and likewise one had to be 
called to belong to the church.  He had been attending the church services but 
had not received the call which gave claim to membership.  One day, in driving 
along, on a certain road (a road which he never forgot), he had a strong urge 
to get out and pray.  He knelt in the middle of the road, and before he rose, 
he knew that he had received the call to membership.  It was a new 
satisfaction.  The next Sunday, at services, he told his experience in the 
middle of the road, and the leaders at the Church-house (as they insist on 
saying because it defines the building better than church or meeting house) 
received him into the fold.  This was in the 70s and he never strayed away.
     Interview  1929.


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