Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Second Baptist Church of Baltimore, Maryland The author desires to say to the reader the only reason for presenting this little volume to your notice is that the Church, sharing the view and acting on the suggestion of the Pastor, believed the Minutes and Records of the Second Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., contained matters of more than ordinary local historic value, and' that the whole Church in general, and the Baptist in particular, should be privileged to learn of the organization of the first permanent Bible School on the Ameri can continent, and of the first organized Monthly Prayer Meeting for Foreign Missions in America. 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.

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