Selections from The Eastern Baptist Association
                            Booklet 1, 1865

Posted with kind permission from the Baptist Collection from the North 
Carolina Collection at Z. Smith Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-
Salem, N.C..

[The booklets are over 100 years old, and include Lenoir, Craven, Onlsow, 
Duplin, New Hanover, and Wake Counties. This is only a partial abstraction 
of records, . . .  Surnames have been capitalized.--Sloan Mason]


"Minutes of the Twenty-Second Annual Session of the Eastern Baptist 
Association"
Held with the Church at Moore's Creek- Oct. 3-4, 1865.
Raleigh, Biblical Recorder Book and Job Printing Office-1866.
(Written on the cover-9/25/28-donated by C.H.UTLEY)

p.6- Report on Obituaries
Your committee on Obituaries submits the following: Profound gratitude is 
due to Almighty God for the fact that no minister of the Association has 
died during the past year. But we are called upon to mourn the loss of some 
of our most efficient lay brethren, including several deacons. - Among 
them, most prominent of whom, is our lamented brother, the late Capt. John 
W. TAYLOR, of  Lebanon church. We append a brief account of this brother's 
life and efficient services, taken from the letter from his church, as a 
part of our report.

Brother Robert EAKENS, a deacon of the church at Shiloh, has died during
the year.

Brother J.M TAYLOR, an exemplary and efficient christian, for a long time 
an active member of the Executive committee, fell mortally wounded upon the 
bloody battle-field at Bentonsville, in our State.

Brother J.R.EZZELL, clerk of the church at New Hope, an active christian 
and benevolent man, died last spring while absent from his church and 
family in the army.

Brother Thos. O. CARROLL, clerk of the church at Mt. Holly, fell upon the 
bloodstained soil of Virginia, in the very last hours of the fierce and 
sanguinary conflict through which we have just passed. He was a promising 
young brother; and his church expected much of him, but God has taken him.

There may be others whom your committee should mention; if so, their
names have not been remembered or presented. We deeply sympathize with
their bereaved churches and families, and tender them our heart-felt
condolence.
           Respectfully,  J. N. STALLINGS, Chm'n.

Brief Sketch of Capt. J. W. TAYLOR'S Life, taken from the Letter from
Lebanon Church:

"Our own church and the Association are alike called upon to mourn the lose 
of  brother J. W. TAYLOR, a truly beloved and exemplary deacon of our 
church. In his life was  illustrated the pious, zealous, and energetic 
christian. Indeed in all the relations he bore to his family, his church, 
and country, he might be pointed to as a man of  inestimable worth. Brother 
TAYLOR brought a letter from Concord church, Duplin county, A.D., 9th, 
1850, and in September of the same year, he applied for admission into the 
church at Lebanon. He was gladly received, and immediately elected clerk, 
in which capacity he diligently served the church until the 4th Sunday in 
February, A.D. 1859, when he was elected Deacon and consented to assume 
this new responsibility. In this office he promptly and faithfully 
discharged every obligation, which his battalion in an engagement between 
the Northern and Southern forces at Bentonsville, in this State, March 
19th, A.D., 1865. Only the briefest reference can here be had to this most 
exemplary christian, valued citizen, and gallant soldier. May the incense 
of his glowing prayers still linger about the court of Heaven, eliciting, 
through Christ, the continued favors of a benign Providence upon his 
sorrowing family, until they too shall be gathered an united with him in 
that celestial circle where parting is no more."

p.8               Warsaw High School
To the Trustees of Warsaw High School:
Dear Brethren-We are sorry to inform you that your school is not so 
flourishing as last year, there being at present only 27 scholars and one 
teacher. We had a very good school in the spring, but were compelled to 
suspend on the 17th of March, on account of the presence of the U.S. 
troops.
The number of students during the year has been sixty.
It is unnecessary for your Principal to re-count the causes of this falling 
off as all are painfully acquainted with the circumstances. The prospect 
before us would not justify us in employing a music teacher the present 
session, but it is our intention to secure the services of a competent and 
experienced teacher for the next year, when we expect to give instruction 
in all the branches heretofore taught in this school. The present session 
will close the 21st of December. The next will commence the last Monday in 
January 1866.
Asking in interest in your prayers for the success of the school, we are 
yours in Christ.
Warsaw, September 29, 1865.
Isham ROYALL, Principal

P.9-Thursday, Oct. 5, 1865
Report of the Executive Committee
Your committee begs leave to submit the following: We designed, in the 
beginning of the year, to enter more extensively into the work of Home 
Missions than ever before. In the prosecution of this design, we opened a 
correspondence with Elders KING and BARLOW, whom God, in His Providence, 
had raised up in the midst of the great spiritual destitution in Onslow  
county, for the purpose of getting them to labor under our direction; but 
owing to the derangement in the mails and the subsequent conditions of the 
country, we did not perfect any arrangement with them. During the first 
part of the Associational year, we made appropriations for Chinquepin, 
Clinton, Smith's Chapel, Prospect and other weak churches; but since the 
occupancy by the U.S. Troops, we have been unable to do anything, what 
funds we had becoming worthless and not having received any funds since.

But notwithstand this, the work has gone on. Elder G.S.BEST has continued 
to preach at Chinquepin; Elder OLIVER at Prospect and Smith's Chapel; Elder 
STEWART at Clinton; and Elders KING and BARLOW in Onslow county, the former 
at Union Chapel and Jacksonville, the latter principally at Pleasant Hill 
and Bay M.H., Union Chapel, through the Divine blessing has become self 
sustaining.- The other churches mentioned still need aid. Jacksonville and 
Pleasant Hill are new churches, having been constituted during the year, 
with every prospect of success. Bay M. H. is a preaching station, there 
being no constituted church at that place. We will further state, in this 
condition, that Elder RHODES of Jones County, has preached in that county, 
in which the greatest destitution prevails, there having been until 
recently but one regular Baptist Church in the entire county, viz: Piney 
Grove; but Elder RHODES, assisted by  Elder KING, has, constituted another 
, called Tuckahoe. This is an important point, but the church is weak and 
needs your fostering care.

Thus you see that God, in His abundant goodness, has in the time of 
national gloom and adversity, blessed His cause and prospered His work 
amongst those people and in those sections which have given so much 
solicitude, upon which so much labor has been bestowed, and for which so 
many tears and prayers have been given. The day is dawning-the prospect is 
brightening, and your committee feels that devout thanks are due to Our 
Heavenly Father for His blessings and that, with redoubled efforts and 
renewed energies, we should come up "to the help of the Lord, to the help 
of the Lord against the mighty."

But your committee desires to remind the Association that vast destitution 
still prevails. A portion of Duplin, almost the whole of Onslow and Jones-
to say nothing of large portions of Lenoir, Craven and Carteret-are still 
"sitting in the shadow of death." "Darkness covers the land, and gross 
darkness the people." All the churches mentioned, except Union Chapel, need 
contributions to enable them to have the regular and stated ministry, of 
the Word.-There are other important points at which, with God's blessing, 
churches may be built up; while there is ample room for a dozen or more 
Itinerants, no heart should be Inkewarm, no hand idle, in this great work 
God has committed to our trust. In the spirit of self-sacrifice and self-
denial every one should come.

p.12
Committee to nominate Delegates to the Baptist State Convention, reported 
the following; G.W. HUFFMAN, E.A. BEST, A.M. FAISON, J.H. STEVENS, J.M. 
MOSELY, N.C. FAISON, B. OLIVER, D.K. KORNEGAY, J.R. OLIVER, J.S.DEVANE, J. 
SHINE, L. CARROLL, G.W. ROBERTS, W.M. YOUNG, B.F. MITCHELL, J.L. STEWART, 
G.S.BEST, J.L. CARLTON, R. BENNETT, H.E.CARR, S.S.SATCHWELL, B. MATHEWS, 
D.J. MIDDLETON, J.W. HALL, J.M. WOOTEN, Joseph HERRING, J.J. VANN, H. 
McALPIN, J.L. BOYKIN, H.J. HOBBS, A. GUY, J.P. FAISON, L. F. WILLIAMS, S. 
ANDREWS, J.W. PRIDGEN, W.M. KENNEDY, O. ALDERMAN, C.P. MOORE, R.R.BELL, 
B.B.NEWKIRK, J.F. IRELAND, R. HERRING, Isham ROYAL, J.D. CARROLL, S.J. 
FAISON, J.N. STALLINGS, O. FENNELL,Sr., O.M. MATHEWS, J.E.KING, J.T. 
RHODES, J.B. BARLOW, H.P. BRINSON.
Respectfully submitted: Committee.

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