Author: County Line Missionary Baptist Assoc

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780260529190

Excerpt from Minutes of the Fifth Annual Session of the County Line Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina: Held With Hartie Grove Baptist Church, Granville County, North Carolina, July 15th and 16th, 1931 It is a great thing to have an hour when the best stirs you to come to a summit on life's long, rough road, when you catch sight Of a divine land scape, or hear a snatch Of a song Or a bar Of music, or see a look in the face of a friend, that sends all the good in you surging to the front until you say: I will be a man! I will shake Off shabby habits, crucify lusts, cleanse my heart of filth, snap the shackles Of sin, and be free. When we come to that place in life we are at our best. I am sorry for the man who never has an hour on some mountain peak, who never feels an ecstacy, who never has a thrill, who is always mediocre, and goes through life with his head down, his pulses dull and his sense stale. Therefore, let us see that the hours, which we shall spend here on this mountain of privi ledge. Shall be full of inspiration, full Of fellowship, and full of increased knowledge concerning the common problems which we share as ministers and christian workers. There are many possibilities before us, a united brotherhood, a more efficient organization, and a larger and greater service. The Lord has made you stewards Of 19 church houses valued at thirty one thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. He has given you nearly sixteen hundred members for spiritual development and training in christian character. All Of this constituency has great potential power waiting to be converted into useful channels. Last year the churches of _this association sent to the annual session gave for Home Mission, and for sick and poor. The total amount given for all charitable purposes was If you divide this amount by the total membership in all the churches, you will find that we gave only zoc per individual member for the year, as 1 2-3 cents per month. Brethren we are not giving the Lord interest on the air which we Use, say nothing of the multitude Of other blessings which we receive. 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.