CHAPTER XXXV.
Professor William H.Whitsitt, of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville, Ky., has written a book that has for its leading feature to make it appear that the Disciples are an "offshoot from the Sandemanians." The Sandemanians, like the Baptists, had both faults and virtues.

They were one of the earliest sects of the Scotch Presbyterians to protest against a union of Church and State; they practiced a weekly breaking of the loaf; held to a plurality of elders in every church, and were exceptionally helpful to the poor; and surely, even Dr.Whitsitt will not call these damnable heresies.

But they were also rigid separatists.

They were Calvinists of the straitest sect, and made all their opinions a bond of union.

In this they were like the Baptists, but essentially dissimilar to the Disciples.