Excerpt from Minutes of the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Forty-Ninth Session, Held in M. E. Church, Hillsboro, Ohio, August 29 to September 3, 1900 WE recognize in this Society one of the greatest institutions for the Christianization of the world, and for the civilizing and uplifting of the masses. We desire, therefore, to call attention to certain facts: That while the Opportunity for doing good, and the Open door for the Bible Society has been greater. And consequently the demands made upon its resources have been larger than ever before, yet the receipts and consequent ability to meet these demands have been growing less from year to year. The gifts of our Methodist Episcopal Church to this great Society have decreased heavily in the last twenty-five years. This continued decrease in general is not because of any lack of confidence in the Bible Society. But because of the demands of other benevolent Objects, and the further fact that the needs and the work of this Society have not been sufficiently made known to our people. In support of these statements, we call attention to the fact that in 1867, with only members. Our Church gave nearly to this Society, while last year, with over members, we gave only or one-twelfth as much per member as thirty years ago. The work of this Society is fundamental and paramount to that of all other evangelistic agencies for the propagation of the gospel of the Son 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 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.