There are no home missions or benevolences. You must register with this board before submitting follow up messages. Parker opposed the Arminian doctrine of the Methodists and based his dislike of the missionary effort and church schools on what he called his Two-Seed Doctrine. That, briefly, is the conviction that two seeds entered the life stream of humanity in the garden of Eden. The two seeds have been in conflict in humanity ever since.
Every baby is predestined, born with one seed or the other.
Nothing can be done for a child, one way or the other. Other points include belief in the resurrection of the Body of Christ, the church, salvation by grace alone. The church observes the Lord's Supper and practices foot washing. There are no home missions or benevolences. Mead's book lists hundreds and hundreds of such bizarre little denominations.