Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minutes of the Sixty-Seventh Session of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina: Held With the Sumter Baptist Church, December 1-4, 1887 Twenty-one Associations, one Sunday school, and two Sunday School Conventions have raised, or are engaged in raising, such funds. Five of them are completed and several others nearly so. Seventeen men have been furnished with books, and have met with encouraging success. The results of their work is as follows: Books sold, for copies of the Scriptures donated, 869; value, pamphlets dona ted, worth pages of tracts and pamphlets distributed, Our aim is to raise a permanent fund in each Association, and have a colporter at work in each one. 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.