the life, death, resurrection, and ascension, of Jesu Christ. 5th. That the saints will finally persevere through grace to glory. 6th. That believers' baptism by immersion is necessary to receiving the Lord's supper. 7th. That the salvation of the righteous, and punishment of the wicked will be eternal. 8th. That it is our duty to be tender and affectionate to each other, and study the happiness of the children of God in general; to be engaged singly to promote the honour of God. 9th. And that the preaching Christ tasted death for every man, shall be no bar to communion. 10th. And that each may keep up their asssociational and church government, as to them may seem best. 11th. That a free correspondence and communion be kept up between the churches thus united.

"Unanimously agreed to by the joint committee.

Matters being thus prepared, a general convention, composed of delegates from all the churches in both Associations, met, October, 1801, at Howard's Creek meeting house, in the county of Clarke, when they unanimously acceded to the terms of union, which their committees had prepared, and agreed to lay aside the names of Regular and Separate, and to travel together in future in communion and fellowship as united brethren.

This was the last body of the Separate Baptists, which relinquished the appellation by which they had been distinguished for almost fifty years.

In 1802, the year after this union took place, the Association having become very extensive in its boundaries, found it convenient to make a division; and, as nearly an equal number of the churches were situated on both sides of the Kentucky river, that river was fixed upon as the dividing line, and the two divisions were called the North and South District Associations. These names were assumed merely for the purpose of distinction, as there were no geographical or civil departments of the country to which they referred.

Thus far the Baptist churches in Kentucky appeared to be in a state of uninterrupted and increasing prosperity, and during the period of their history the following additional Associations were formed, viz.

1. Bracken Association,-organized in 1798. Most of the churches, of which this body was composed, were dismissed from the Elkhorn Association. The church at Washington was the centre of this Association, and this was one of the oldest and largest in the state, haying been constituted in 1785. It was originally under the care of William Wood, who lost his character and fortune by land speculation.

2. North Bend Association. This was formed in 1802, of churches which were mostly dismissed from Elkhorn Association. Its territory is in the counties of Campbell, Pendleton, and Boon, along the Licking and Ohio rivers.

3. Long Run Association,-being a division of Salem, and embracing the country between Salt and Kentucky rivers. It was organized in 1803.

4. Green River Association-formed in 1800, and containing at first nine churches, eight ministers, and about three hundred and fifty members. In 1804 it had increased to thirty-eight churches, which embraced one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six communicants.

This Association was now become so extensive that it was thought proper to divide it into three, whose boundaries do not appear to have been very well defin

ed.

In the great religious excitement of 1800 and 2, the Baptists appear also to have had their share. It is described by their historian as having been upon the whole a genuine work of the Spirit, among all the denominations, but disgraced, towards the close, by some extravagancies and errors.

Among the Baptists it began in Boon county, on the Ohio river, and in its progress extended up the Ohio, Licking, and Kentucky rivers, branching out into the settlements adjoining them. It spread fast in different directions, and in a short time almost every part of the state was affected by its influence. It is computed that about ten thousand were baptized and added to the Baptist churches in the course of two or three years. Many of their ministers baptized in a number of neighbouring churches from two to four hundred each. And two of them are said to have baptized about five hun dred a piece in the course of the work.

Thus far, we repeat, the Baptist churches in Kentucky appear to have been in a state of uninterrupted and increasing prosperity. But external prosperity, even with respect to churches, is not always an evidence of increasing strength. "I said in my prosperity I shall never be moved; thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled." In the midst of this prosperity the Baptists of Kentucky were cherishing among themselves trouble, and discord, and disgrace, and had it not been for a superintending providence, which makes even the wrath of man and the follies of man praise him, it would have been destruction.

These evils are detailed at considerable length by their historian. They were substantiantially these:

1. The Arian controversy, which eventually deprived Elkhorn Association of one or two of its preachers, and perhaps three of its churches, which have since ceased to exist.

2. A dispute about the lawfulness of christians holding slaves, which ended in the friends of emancipation separating entirely from the communion of their slaveholding brethren.

3. A personal dispute between one of their most popular preachers and an influential member of his church, in a bargain respecting the exchange of two poor slaves. After a variety of attempts to reconcile the parties and their friends, a respectable minority of the Elkhorn Association declined meeting with their brethren at their annual session, and soon afterwards erected themselves into a new establishment, by the name of the Licking association. And,

4. The union with the Separate and South Kentucky Associations was not followed with the confidence and co-operation which had been expected. It soon appeared that in the southern department of the old Separate community there were a number who had gone far into doctrinal errors. Arminianism, in all its extent, even to that of Universal Restoration, had been held and preached among them. The result was, "the Association became divided into two contending parties, and what was still worse, the greater part appeared on the side of error. At its session in 1803, some ministers publicly declared themselves no more of the Association, and withdrew." "This,” adds the author, "is the mode of dissolving fellowship in Kentucky."

The sum total of the Baptists in Kentucky, accord ing to Benedict, was in 1810-12, thus:

The Emancipating Society of Baptists were estimated in 1805 to contain 12 churches, 12 ministers, and 300 members.

This Society has, we apprehend, from death and removals, declined very much since that date. Of their leader, who is since dead, Benedict thus speaks:

"About this time David Barrow published a pamphlet with this title, 'Involuntary, Unmerited, Perpetual, Absolute, Hereditary, Slavery, examined on the principles of Nature, Reason, Justice, Policy, and Scripture.'