Excerpt from The First Annual Report of the United Foreign Missionary Society: Presented at the Annual Meeting, Held in the City of New-York, on Wednesday, May 15, 1818 Tan United Foreign Missionary Society originated m an overture made by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, to the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church, and to the Synod of the Associate Reformed Church, in the year 1816, on the subject of Missions to the Heathen. 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.