Excerpt from History of the Seneca Baptist Association: With Sketches of Churches and Pastors The history of the Seneca Baptist Association begins with the history Of the pioneers of the lake country of central New York. By their strong arms the forests were swept away, the seeds of civilization were sown in the wilderness, the school-house and the church were 'built above the ruins of the Indian's Wigwam. These early settlers were men stalwart in frame, often uneducated, yet were they reverent in spirit. They sought a home in the wilderness, but they thought of ather home further on. They remembered that they were sojourners and pilgrims. Hence, soon after providing a shelter for their families, they began to feel the want of a place where they could come together for public worship. At first they met from house to house, then they assembled in some large barn, then in the log school-house, but it was t long before they built a rude temple which with solemn con secration they set apart for the worship of God. 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 techlogy 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.