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| | The History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois |
 | | She worshiped f or some years with an Old School Baptist Church, some three miles from town; and as she was a Baptist of means, generosity and stability, we may be sure that she helped the cause in other ways than by attendance, in their assemblies. |
 | | Several Baptists who had worshiped with the congregation for years, but had forborne to ask for membership, came forward, presented their letters, and were received into full communion. |
 | | The Baptists who had mostly occupied this ground after the Indians left, believed that all missionary effort was of the devil, and that it was wrong to educate a man and pay him for preaching the Gospel. |
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