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Washington, another is superintendent of city schools,
and still another has served in the State Senate, and
is flow a member of the United States Congress.
Brother Griffith was twenty-three times Moderator of
his Association. He was called to his eternal reward
in 1905.
Another of these "fathers" was the Rev. Robert
Stevenson, who was born in Kilmornock, a town of
Ayershire, Scotland, in 1815. In 1828 he accompanied
his father to America and they settled in Jefferson
county, Indiana. He was so eager for information
that he read extensively in the hours following the
day's work. His father hoped and expected that the
son would become a strong and respected member of
the Scotch Presbyterian church, but his reading had
led him to doubt some of the teachings of that body,
and finally led him to join the Baptist church in that
community--the Brushy Fork. His Baptist brethren
at once recognized his abilities and inclinations and ac-
cordingly ordained him to the ministry, in 1843. He
soon became a recognized power in the pulpit; he read
many books, but the Bible most of all. It is said that
he wrote the entire Bible, and the New Testament
more than once. He had all the strength of convic-
tion and force of expression that are characteristic of
his nationality. The doctrines of the sovereignty of
God had no more able a defender than he was, in all
southern Indiana�nor in the State. Those who dif-
fered from him as to the fundamental doctrines of the
Baptists, found that they might well think twice be-
fore undertaking to refute him. He seemed inclined
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to serve country churches rather than those in the
city, doubtless owing to the fact that he had become
accustomed to rural ways--felt more at home; it was
not because he was not a prince of pulpit orators. He
died in 1896.
Few Associations have sent more students to Frank-
lin College than has Long Run; the college catalogues
bear testimony to the many young men and young
women who came. from that section- of the state; as
the Schencks, the Craigs, the Griffiths, the Hattons,
the Shaddays, the Gibbses, the Ogles, the Crafts, the
Wards, the Henrys, the Jaynes, the Kinnetts, the
Clevengers, the Crandells, the Matthewses and the
Protsmans.
WHITE WATER VALLEY ASSOCIATION--(COUNTIES OF
DECATUR, FRANKLIN, FAYETTE, RIPLEY
AND WAYNE).
This Association was organized in 1852, and was
in some sense a protest against the Predestinarian
views held in the White Water Association. The
first minutes accessible are for 1866, at which time
there were eight churches, 350 members, the Mod-
erator was the Rev. J. P. Agenbroad, of the Rich-
mond church, and the clerk, E. H. Webb. The
Association was in correspondence with all the other
Associations in that part of the State, and by resolu-
tions declared itself in hearty sympathy with all
the general enterprises of the denomination.
The Richmond church had lately come into the
body after a long and hard struggle to build a meet-
