PUBLIC OFFENCES, Lemuel Potter Among other things that Elder Paine preached, besides the no-soul doctrine, as I have stated in another chapter, was that the flesh and bones of Christ and his human nature had existed in heaven from all eternity…..I could not conscientiously be still, and hold my peace, and let that doctrine overrun our part of the country…..At the supper table he made the remark to me that he had one request to make, and that was that if he should preach anything that night that I did not endorse, I should speak to him privately about it, and say nothing publicly upon the subject. I told him that we had tried that course with some of those men who denied the resurrection until they had greatly the advantage of us, and that I had concluded that if a man preached anything in my pulpit, to my people, that I did not believe to be true, I should expose it at once publicly, so that the Baptists might be aware of the fact that I did not believe it. (Lemuel Potter emphasis added).