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Excerpt from A Sketch of the History of Baptist Education in Pennsylvania The subject is timely for at least two reasons. In the first place no general account of the history of Baptist educa tion in Pennsylvania seems to have been undertaken hitherto. In 1909, when the Pennsylvania Baptist Education Society reached three score and ten years, a sketch of its work was prepared by Rev. Jacob G. Walker, D. D., who had been its recording-secretary since 1871. A sketch of the University at Lewisburg (from 1886 Bucknell University) was publish ed in 1876, and another in 1890. When Crozer Theological Seminary was thirty years of age a brief historical address was issued. There are probably other sketches of aspects of Baptist education in Pennsylvania which have not come to my attention. Up to the present, however, the field of Bap tist educational activities in Pennsylvania as a whole has re mained Open to the historian, and the topic is important for its own sake. Just now, moreover, the entire question of Baptist education in Pennsylvania is under discussion and can receive best treatment only on the basis of a knowledge of past days. I must emphasize at the beginning that this paper is only a sketch. Anything more would require a small volume at least. In spite of the limits which are imposed upon me, however, it will be best to give considerable attention to the earlier days. Baptists began to come to Pennsylvania as early at least as 1684. A company from Rhode Island under the leader ship of Thomas Dungan settled at Cold Spring, between Bristol and Trenton, and organized themselves into the first Baptist society in Pennsylvania. This church was of only temporary duration, however, lasting merely until 1702. 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.