Excerpt from The First Century of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, 1780 1880 Baptists of the State and of the South. This eminence has been acquired by the number and strength of its membership, the ability and piety of its pastors, the variety and utility of its activities, the unity and conservatism of its spirit, the wide-spread influence it has exerted more or less directly in the counsels of the denomination, and the venerableness of its age crowned with memories of triumphs of grace all through its long conflict of faith. It was fit, therefore, that, with the approach of its one hundredth anniversary, thoughts should arise of special thank-offerings to the Lord, and of some suitable commemoration of the Divine Goodness and Guidance. 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.