Excerpt from Proceedings of the Sixty-Second Annual Session of the Baptist State Convention of Alabama, 1883: Held With the Tuskegee Baptist Church, July 17-21, 1883 Contrast the condition of the denomination ten years ago with what it is to day. Then this Convention Kvas not a whit larger than manya local Association. Now it is the largest religious body that convenes in the State. Then there were only nineteen Associations in connection with it, now there are fifty-two. At the meeting in 1875. Eleven Associations were reported by twenty-live dele gates, and thirty-seven churches by seventy-five delegates. At the meeting of 1884. Forty Associations were represented by 140 delegates, and sixty-seven churches by 133 delegates. 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.