27. FROM A RESPECTABLE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, IN THE UPPER PART OF GEORGIA, TO HIS FRIEND IN SAVANNAH, DATED NOV. 17, 1801.

"Several churches here within four months past have received and baptized from twenty to fifty persons; and one in Elbert county has had an addition by baptism of about one hundred and forty. According to the best accounts from Kentucky, there has been added to the Baptist churches, since last March, near six thousand; while multitudes were joining the Methodists and Presbyterians. There are six Baptist associations in that state. Of these the Elkhorn is perhaps the smallest, and from their minutes of last August, it appears that the number is three thousand and eleven souls. -- O that instances of such large and rapid accessions to the churches may be multiplied, till not only Kentucky and our upper, but our lower country and EVEN SAVANNAHS SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF GOD."


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