SOME may have wondered why this name ever came to be applied to a church or people. A writer in the Baptist Banner makes the following statement which may go far toward solving the mystery:—
"The Enon Association, out here in Indiana, has a law which is as unchangeable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. The essence is this: ‘We are opposed to the missionary spirit, in giving the gospel to the heathen; this article shall not be annulled!’ I can produce it entire from the constitution of said association."
The distinction of Baptists in the South is mainly of "Mission" and "Anti-mission Baptists."