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Excerpt from Minutes of the Sixteenth Annual Session of the West Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association: Held With Pleasant Plain Church Near Winton, Hertford County, N. C., September 24, 25, 26, 1901 The W'est Roanoke Missionary Baptist Association met with Pleasant Plain Baptist church near Winton, N. O, on the 24th day of September 1901. Rev. W. H. Leath, the Secretary, being absent, the moderator asked Rev. L. T. Bond to act as temporary secretary. Devotional exercises were conducted by Revs. L. Pierce and R. B' James sang Hymn No. 482 and read 103 Psalms. Prayer by Rev. J ames. Rev. C. S. Brown, pastor of the church and moderator of the Association, welcomed the body to the church and homes of its members. Among other encouraging things he stated thathe was proud-of this association, because it was doing more Christian work than any other such body in the State. Rev. W. T. Askew responded in the behalf of the association The moderator Rev. C. S. Brown, D. D., announced that the Introductory Sermon would be preached by Rev. A. Cobb, assisted by Rev.' S. L. Johnson, (the Evangelist) who sang Hymn No. 14 and read a part -of the 28 chapter of Matthew. Rev Cobb preached from the 38 verse of the 13 chapter of Matthew, the sermon was both interesting and instructive, and the speaker urged the necessity of preaching a whole gospel. Evangelist J ohnson spoke along the same lines endorsing what Rev. Cobbs had said, and declared that the doctrines of the Baptist church are those of the New Testament church especially empasiz ing the ordinance of Baptism. 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.