Keys of Heaven Taken by Court
Free Will Baptists Suffer Schism and Matter Goes Through Supreme Court

Article taken from The Elyria Republican, March 10, 1910

Columbus, O., March 9. - The supreme court Tuesday handed down a growing out of the schism in the Old Free Baptist church originating in 1902 and resulting in the establishment of a sect now known as the "Free Baptist church." The case involves valuable church property in Sciotoville, Scioto county.

The courts below held for the Free Baptists and the supreme court affirms the judgment in spite of the appeal made by the attorney for the Old Free Baptists that "our keys to heaven have been taken from us by the common pleas and circuit courts and handed over to them."