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Excerpt from Minutes of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Bethel Baptist Association, South Alabama: Held With the Bethel Church, in Marengo County, 1850 Feeling the importance of a more general interest on the part 'of the churches, in the subjects now engaging the attention of the christian world, and, feeling too, the need of more liberality on the part of the members of our churches to enable us to cars ry out youruinstructions, and accomplish the object of our appoint ment your Board, after along discussion of the whole subject. At their first meeting unanimously Resolved, That one of the mem' bers of this Board, or some other suitable man, be employed as a. Collecting missionary, whose duty it shall be to visit the church' es, neighborhoods and individuals within the bounds of the Asso ciation, to enforce the'duty of christian benevolence, and to soli cit donations and subscriptions for the spread of truth, and, es pecially, for the use ofthis Board in its appropriate work ofsupply ing the destitute with preaching and religious books. As you were informed by a circular appended to the minutes ofyour sess sion, we appointed to this work our brother A. A. Gonnella, who was compelled, reluctantly, to decline the appointment. Nor could we secure any one to undertake this important. Service. We, however, yet hope that the Association, or its next Board, may be able to carry out this desirable object or else adopt some other plan of increasing the usefulness and liberality oi? The mem bers of our churches. 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.