Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minutes of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina, at Its Twenty-First Anniversary: Held With the Welsh Neck Church, at Society Hill, Commencing on the 11th, and Ending on the 14th of December, 1841 Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to remove one of the members of the Board, by the death of the Rev. N. W. Hooens, Resolved, That this Board en tertain a lively sense of the loss, which they, in common with the denomin ation at large, have sustained by this solemn event. Brother Hodges had 'long' sustained the character of a conscientious, laborious, self-denying minister of Jesus Christ. Exemplary for his singular devotedness to the interests of reli gion, and crowned by the Providence of God with an uncommon measure of usefulness, he has gone down to the grave, amidst the deep regrets of many who loved him for his w'ork's sake. He inherits the blessing of those who die in the Lord - he rests from his labors, and his works do follow him! 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.