Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minutes of the Seventy-First Session of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina: Held With the First Baptist Church of Spartanburg, December 3-6, 1891 In the month of February death invaded the ranks of our noble band of workers. Rev. J. S. West, like a brave soldier, died' at his post. He was a good man and a faithful, efficient missionary. He rests from his labors and his works do follow him. The past year has been a very important one in our history. Twenty new fields were entered, and more laborers employed. Than ever before. The prosperity that has attended the work in the years gone by has continued to crown the labors of this year, and the growth in many fields has been large and prominent. It has been a year characterized not only by the seed sown and the foundations laid, but also by the fruits gathered. We venture to say that the Board never accomplished so large and so successful a work in any year of its history, as in the year which closes to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.