Excerpt from The First One Hundred Years of Galeed Baptist Church, 1876-1976: Our Centennial Observance, August 27, 1976 As part of the observance of our One Hundredth Anniversary the church in con ference has given to the Centennial Committee the task of bringing the history of the church up to date. A History all past events considered together what a challenge! It was with fear and reverence that this committee began this work. A book of this length must exclude more people that it can include. Many of the truly great are unseen in these pages. No effort has been made to clothe leaders in saintly robes. Effort has been made to present them fairly in strength and in weakness and to show how God has used them in spite of their lack of perfection. We Would acknowledge with grateful appreciation those who organized our church and all who have been faithful to support and sustain Galeed during the past Century. We realize anew the trials, tribulations and dedication of our forefathers. We are strength ened by these trials and hardships. If time stands, God grant the people of our church in 2076 shall have cause to be as thankful for us as we are for those who served the past one hundred years. 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.