Baptist Pioneer.



     'Broad is the road that leads to death.'
A great crowd followed them and the scene
was awfully solemn."-(Spencer.)
  "During this confinement," says J. B. Taylor,
"Elder Craig preached through the grates to
large crowds, and was the means of doing much
good". He remained in jail a month and was
released. Hastening to Williamsburg he soon
secured the release of the others. The letter
following was brought by him from the deputy-
governor to the king's attorney:
  "Sir-I lately received a letter signed by a
goodly number of worthy gentlemen who are
not here, complaining of the Baptists; the par-
ticulars of their misbehavior are not told, any
further than their running into private houses
and making dissensions. Mr. Craig and Mr.
Benjamin Waller are now with me, and deny
the charge; they tell me they are willing to
take the oath as others have. I told them then
I had consulted the attorney-general, who is of
the opinion that the general court alone had a
right to grant licenses, and therefore I referred
them to the court; but on their application to
the attorney-general, they brought me his let-
ter, advising me to write to you. Their petition
was a matter of right and you ought not to
molest these conscientious people so long as they
behave themselves in a manner becoming pious



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