The History of Wingate Baptist Church, 1810-2009 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of Wingate Baptist Church, 1810-2009Interest in writing this history of Meadow branch-wingate Baptist Church began several years ago when original minutes dating from 1835 were found rather carelessly stacked in a cabinet in the church library. At the encouragement of Dr. Roy Ford, I began to think serious ly, when time permitted, about attempting the task. It was known that the church had been constituted in 1810, but although the records from 1835 to 1982 were almost completely intact in their original form, no records could be found of the period from 1810 to 1835. Time and again they had been referred to as lost. When work began, it soon became evident that the old minutes available could not be handled without damaging them extensively. To preserve them, inquiry was made of John R. Woodard, Director of the North Carolina Baptist Historical Collee tion, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, as to whether these minutes had been microfilmed for that collection. His answer was negative but that the collection did already include original minutes of Meadow Branch Church from 1810 to 1845. The next day Dr. Ford and I went to winston-salem to see this miracle and also to take the 1835-1982 minutes to be microfilmed. Mr. Woodard and his assistant, Miss Myrtle Lyttle, produced the lost minutes, which had been don ated to Wake Forest, we learned, in 1917 by Mrs. C. M. Brewer.This event gave impetus to the project, and on June 13, 1982, a committee of Dr. Jerry Surratt, Mrs. John A. Bivens, Mr. Ed Hogan, Mr. Baron Smith, and I went to work. The date set for completion was June 1984.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.