Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minutes of the Thirty-Eighth Anniversary of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South-Carolina, Held at Greenville, July 24-27, 1858: Together With an Abstract of the Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of Furman University, Held at the Same Time and Place Applications for admission into this Convention were then presented by the Barnwell Association, Santee Bible Society, and Antioch Bible Society. On motion the applications were received and the delegates from these bodies took their seats. From Barnwell Association, D. H. Rice, Robert Kirkland; from Santee and Antioch Bible Societies W. J. Snider. In advance of the regular appointments, the committee on preaching was appointed as follows The Pastor and Deacons of the Greenville Church, and T. P. Lide, J. G. Pressley, W. J. Snider. 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.