Bare with me, I am on a roll tonight. This idea of not removing Landmarks have been used by other groups to keep them in line.
This is a quote from some of the founders of the Church of God in their desire to leave the dead Baptist Churches and contend for something more.
The full article is found here.
http://www.pctii.org/cyberj/cyberj5/roebuck.html
Epley should like this, it was written by David Roebuck
“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” Pendleton and Graves taught that Baptists were putting aside a significant landmark when they worshipped with non-Baptists. Landmarkism held to a line of Baptist succession from the time of Christ, the importance of believer’s baptism by a Baptist minister and the exclusivity of Baptist churches."