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This assembly is thought to have been aligned with the Grant exclusives. Tom Robson, a grandson of George & Elizabeth Roggendorff, a retired pastor, born in 1930, remembers visiting the Newbern meeting when he was a child, probably when he was six or seven, which would suggest the assembly was still active in 1936 or 1937, but he does not recall when it folded, but T. Lee Gruen thinks it only met a few years. There was also a Tunbridge-Wells exclusive assembly around this time that met in the Abilene area, and it was the 1930's when [[Elm Springs Bible Hall, KS|Elm Springs Bible Hall]] hived off of Grace and Truth.
==19331930's==At [https://www.brethrenarchive.org/media/364065/booth-a-e-_-appeal-to-my-brethren.pdf BrethrenArchive.com] can be found a lengthy document between A.E. Booth and Wilfred Ames protesting a situation with an assembly in London, [[England]] known as Kingsland which was allegedly going open. ===1931==="You may recall, brother, that in 1931, when Dr. Walter L. Wilson, an I.O.B. leader from Kansas City, Mo., was given the platform (by arrangement of certain loose brethren) at a session of our Abilene (Kansas) Conference, it brought on a definite issue. Several of our brethren, including laborers, required that this should not be repeated, as a condition of their remaining for the further sessions of the Conference." ===1933===The document includes transcriptions from a couple dozen letters around the U.S. that similarly protested, including one from Abilene, marked Aug. 4, 1933 that stated, "we approve the Minneapolis, Dunkirk and other similar letters" with regard to their circulars. The letter was signed the following from Abilene:
* R.A. Deardorff
It also included signatures from:
* Virgle A. Britt @ Junction City
* F.E. Britt @ Junction City
=Latter developments=
The property was sold in 1964 to Felix and Ronald Bolliger who razed it in the fall of 1965. The well-maintained cemetery still remains, which houses over 140 graves, including this author's great-great grandfather John M. Engle, and a large majority of his descendants, including my great-grandparents, grandparents and parents. The forementioned Linneas L. Engle is also a son of John M. Engle.
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