Missions and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: J. M. Reid
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ISBN: 9781331841326
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Excerpt from Missions and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Vol. 1 of 3 Missions and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by J. M. Reid, D. D, was published in 1879 in two volumes. It covered the period from the inception of the Missionary Society to the close of 1877, It is sought herein to continue that history to the year 1894, making it thus to embrace the first seventy-five years of the Society's operations. It was hoped that Dr, Reid might himself extend the account of the work, but his enfeebled health forbade it. In 1877 the Board of Managers of the Missionary Society directed that the undersigned be employed to aid Dr. Reid in the preparation of a history of the Society, which he did, searching all the records, correspondence and other material of the Society through those sixty years of its growth, compiling, and otherwise contributing to the production of those volumes. It was natural, therefore, that at the joint solicitation of Dr. Reid and the publishers, Hunt Eaton, he should undertake the difficult, but not unwelcome, task of revising and continuing that history, though it would have been far easier to have written anew from the commencement. The result of this attempt to comply with the wish of author and publishers is now presented in three volumes, in which the original text has been preserved as nearly as possible, and the new material, equal to a little more than half of the old, has been closely incorporated with the existing history, giving consecutiveness and unity to the whole, making it all to appear as of one time and by one author. Necessarily the plain narrative style and the general order of the former volumes have been closely maintained, unless, indeed, the extension has preserved more severely the character of annals rather than history. The three volumes cover the first seventy-five years (1819-1894) of the Society's work. The rapid development of the work on the principal foreign fields to be recorded in the continuation of the former history, prohibits more than a mere outline in the limited space which can be given to it. Only some five years of the history of the work in Italy, Mexico, and Japan were embraced in the original volumes. The missions in Korea, West China, and Malaysia were not yet begun, nor were those of William Taylor in South America. 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.