Pope, M: Church at Bogue Chapel, the First One Hundred Years

Excerpt from The Church at Bogue Chapel, the First One Hundred Years: An Informal History of Bogue Chapel, Hallsboro Baptist Church, Founded September 10, 1876; Centenary Celebration, September 12, 1976

As you read the following pages you will be reminded anew that the Church at Bogue Chapel has played an' important role in the formative drama of hundreds of lives. Many people have discovered true freedom and eternal soul liberty, thanks, in part, to this witness in Bogue.

You will see depicted in remarkably interesting and often humorous episodes that we, the people of Hallsboro, are genuinely and wonderfully human; we have times of disagreement and occasionally may appear to be a bit contrary But through it all we remain brothers and sisters because, as our covenant reads, it hath pleased Almighty God to turn us from darkness to light and to unite us in one boddy by the blood of His Son. Our call forever is to face in the direction of God's light and to be faithful in transmitting that light to a world which stumbles and yet curses the darkness.

Those of us who have the pleasure of reading this history owe a great measure of appreciation to Ray B. Wyche who has spent countless hours researching and compiling church records and then producing this well-written history.

As we enter the next hundred years, let us pray and work to bring about this hope expressed by John Greenleaf Whittier: Cast in some diviner mould, Let the new cycle shame the old!

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