Download or read book Proceedings of the Sixty-Second Annual Session of the Alabama Baptist Association written by Alabama Baptist Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Sixty-Second Annual Session of the Alabama Baptist Association: Held With Adams Street Church, Montgomery, Ala;, October 6, 7, 8, 1881 It is said of Jeremy Taylor, that he once told a parent the importance of education in words like these: Educate your son. Or Satan will do it for you. There is much force in the remark. For ignorance is used by Satan, and is his right arm of strength and great lever power. Ignorance is the foundation upon which superstition, vice and immorality rest their hopes. If we would rid the world of these curses, we must remove the foundation by educating the rising generation. God has given us our children endowed with intellectual, moral and spiritual faculties, susceptible of the highest cultivation and grand est attainments. The responsibility for the development of these faculties is placed upon us. 'we must discharge these obligations or fail in our duty to God, to our children, and to so'ciety. 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.