Excerpt from Baptist Councils in America: A Historical Study of Their Origin and the Principles of Their Development; A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate Divinity School in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Church History The study, of which the following pages are the result, was begun with the purpose Of discovering the value Of the council as a working instrument in the Baptist denomination. It was intended to limit it to the examination of as many individual councils as possible, classified according to the function which each council was called to perform, and then to the ascertainment Of the actual results of each upon the various interests directly or indirectly involved. 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.