Excerpt from First Baptist Church, Durham, N. C., Year Book, 1913 The congregation entered the new house on Cleveland Street in 1854. Rev. Jesse Howell was the first pastor here, and at this period it was customary to call a pastor for one year at a time. This custom Was abolished in 1876. In 1867, the third Sunday in April, the Sunday School was organized. As the City grew larger, the church organized other Sunday Schools, from which, in most instances, strong Baptist churches have sprung. The mother church has always taken the liveliest interest in these churches; having secured the ground, and, for the most part, furnished the money for each when the time came to erect a building. 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.