They are the most numerous, most wealthy, best educated, and most liberal.

In translating the Bible into all languages, in carrying it into all lands, and in sending the gospel to all nations, they have made some amends for that unrelenting bitterness which they have shown toward our brethren from the first day till now.

We shall glance at what has hitherto been their order by making certain extracts from the _Central Baptist_, published in the year 1870.

The reader must bear in mind that we are writing of those old days: In Arkansas there are but four Missionary Baptist Churches that sustain a regular pastor, or sustain preaching more than once a month.

In North Alabama, two; in the whole of Alabama, twelve; in Missouri, twenty-seven.