Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minutes of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina, at Its Twenty-Eighth Anniversary: Held at Greenville, December 9th-12th, 1848 The Brother appointed to preach the introductory sermon, and his alter nate, having failed to attend, R. Furman was requested to perform that service, and preached from 2 Tim., iv. 2: Preach the word. 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.