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Excerpt from The Place of Baptists in Protestant Christendom: An Address Before the American Baptist Historical Society, at Its Ninth Anniversary, in Providence, R. I., May 30th, 1862
It is not unlikely that to many that relation will appear so obvious as scarcely to require investigation. Even so, how ever, the practical bearings of it, its special proportion to our time and circumstances, might not be undeserving of thought. But how can the relation itself be palpable to most of us, when not only is the real nature of Protestantism in dispute among leading authorities, but when, also, some of them posi tively deny to us in any worthy sense a protestant character. When, for instance, so excellent a man as Dr. Philip Schaf, the able, learned, and pious professor at Mercersburg, Pa., expressly, in his book on Protestantism,96 puts Baptists out of the circle of its proper exponents, among the diseases of Protestantism - allowing to Anabaptism with other sects, only a partial and transient value, as indicative to the church (the true Protestant Church, whatever that may be) of some inconsistency or defect. Dr. Nevin and other writers not to mention speakers - of the Mercersburg school, are still more exclusive; and, without stopping to point out other con spiring tendencies of antipathy to our policy, I would simply ask whether much which Baptists meet with at the hands of good men in various parts of the world, does not presume, for its justification, such a theory of our position. This I say not at all in the tone of deprecation or complaint, only let the principle of their opposition be distinctly seen and averred.
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