Excerpt from Minutes of the One Hundred and Thirty-Second Session of the South Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Held in Bishopville, South Carolina, November 21-25, 1917 Whereas, We believe with all our hearts in the principles of freedom, justice and right upon which our government is founded and guaranteed to its citizens, and that it is the bounden duty of those in authority to uphold, maintain, and enforce the laws of our country, and international laws governing the nations Of the earth, and to protect the liberty and make safe the ideals of this nation; and. 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.