Excerpt from The History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Vol. 2 of 2 When, in the providence of God, the church has been properly disciplined, we shall see it enter upon the great work of evangelization. We shall follow it into the new states and territories, and trace in each its rise and progress. We shall see its printing establishment rising, its schools of learning struggling into life, its missionary society organized, and sending out scores of efficient la borers. And, at the end of the period, instead of a handful of zealous German Christians, melting away before ad verse in uences, breaking up the fallow-ground and sow ing that others might reap, doubtful of their own con tinned existence as a separate people, we shall see a thoroughly organized church of nearly a hundred thou sand members, united, earnest, and zealous; with a pious, intelligent and energetic ministry, excellent educational, publishing, and missionary organizations, and a healthy denominational spirit. And we shall discover that all this progress is but the development of that life in the soul which comes from union with Christ, and which made United Brethren in Christ of Otterbein, Boehm. 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."