"Baptists should be ready not only to meet and to repel attacks made
on their principles, but should earnestly engage in the propagation of
those principles . . . This is one fault of some of the Baptists of this
generation - that they do not zealously propagate their distinctive views.
They should see to it that the truth as embodied in their distinctive principles
is brought into direct, positive, constant, exterminating contact with
the error opposed to those principles. What distinctive mission have the
Baptists, if this is not their mission? - to present the truth in love
on the matters wherein they differ from Pedobaptists. What is there but
this that justifies their separate denominational existence and saves them
from the reproach of being schismatics? If they have a right to a separate
denominational life, it is their duty to propagate their distinctive principles,
without which that life cannot be justified or maintained." J. M. PENDLETON.
(James M. Pendleton [1811-1891] was a noted Baptist pastor, author, professor,
and theologian during the nineteenth century. The above quote is from pages
228-229 of his book "Distinctive Principles of Baptists". If Pendleton
was disappointed for some Baptists of his day not zealously propagating
Baptist principles, he would be totally shocked at the almost total lack
of this in the 21st century.) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor (James
M. Pendleton [1811-1891] was a noted Baptist pastor, author, professor,
and theologian during the nineteenth century. The above quote is
from pages 228-229 of his book "Distinctive Principles of Baptists".
If Pendleton was disappointed for some Baptists of his day not zealously
propagating = Baptist principles, he would be totally shocked at the almost
total lack of this in the 21st century.)