Excerpt from Minutes of the Fourteenth Annual Session of the New River Baptist Association: Held With Shady Grove Baptist Church, Fayette County, Ala;, On October 9th, 10th and 11th, 1884 As for gospel order: lst. We believe that the visible church Of Christ is a congregation of baptized believers, who have gained Christian fellowship with each other, and have given themselves up to the Lord and one another, and have agreed to keep up a Godly discipline according to.the rules Of the Gospel. 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.