Excerpt from Minutes of the Fifty-Third General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1883 The General Assembly met, and the Chairman of the Committee of Ar' rangements introduced to the General Assembly His Excellency, William B. Bate, the Governor of the State of Tennessee, Who extended to the General Assembly, in the name of the State, a cordial welcome. The Moderator responded to the address, and the General Assembly passed a unanimous vote of thanks for the Governor's address of welcome and for the proffered use of the State House. 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.