The 1897 minutes of the Buffalo Association of Primitive Baptists (download here) of Arkansas has these notes, which show that even up till the end of the 19th century there were still PBs who believed in means.
8. On motion the Association appointed a committee to
meet in a convention at Crooked Creek Church Saturday before the third Sunday in Nov. 1897, to see whether there can
be a union effected between the Buffalo Association of Regular Primitive Baptists and the Buffalo Association of Regular
United Baptists and chose from the different churches..."
"On motion the Association adds to her abstract of
principles an article declaring "that we believe the preaching of
the Gospel of the Son of God to be one of God's ordained
means of doing good to humanity."
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