Excerpt from Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1917 The seating of delegates was followed by requests that missionaries and visiting members of Branches be seated with their delegations. The address of welcome was given by Mrs. H. B. Williams, president of Northwestern Branch; and Mrs. H. B. Earhart spoke for Central Church. The response was given by Mrs. E. R. Graham. The Associate Secretaries gave the statistics of the Home Work, the Secretary of the Home Department giving the general summary as follows. 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.