Excerpt from Addresses, Reports, Statements of Benevolent Societies, Constitution, Minutes, Roll of Delegates, Etc;, Of the Thirteenth Triennial Session, Cleveland, Ohio, October 8-17, 1907 I return to you, to-night, my bretheren, the commission with which three years ago you honored me, with gratitude for the trust reposed in me, and with the desire to render some account of my stewardship. You asked me to devote as much of my time as I could to a ministry at large, and I have endeavored to comply with that request. With health somewhat impaired, and with pastoral duties that could not be neglected, I have done as much as in me lay to express the fellowship of the churches, by bearing from one group to another words of greeting and fraternal good will. It has been, for me, a grateful service. Even this slight manifestation of the fact that we are one people has been cordially welcomed by Congregationalists of every section. I have visited, during the three years, twenty-five states of the Union, and the District of Columbia; have crossed the continent twice, and have spoken about seventy-five times before state and local associations, clubs, congresses, and other Congregational assemblies. I have gone, of course, only where I was invited, and I have been constrained, for lack of strength, to decline many services of this kind which I should have been glad to render. The work to which the moderator thus finds himself called is not likely to be a sinecure. The amount of it is limited only by his capacity. When he is not itinerating, a pretty heavy correspondence protects him against idleness. And when this work of a general ministry is added, as it is likely to be, to the cares and duties of an exacting pastorate, the incumbent is made sure of three pretty strenuous years. How much the churches are likely to get out of this service is more than I can say. 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.