Excerpt from The Twenty-First Report of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee at the Annual Meeting, June 2, 1897, Saratoga Springs, N. Y Eight faithful missionaries died at their posts within the twelve months now reported, viz.: Rev. William H. Beard, at South Killingly, Conn., October 2, 1896. He was ordained in 1867, and was permitted to see thirty years of service. Rev. George C. Hall, at Nebraska City, March 25, 1896, of whose decease notice was taken in last year's report, pages 16 and 35. Rev. Anders G. Petterson, Swede, Upsala, Minn., December 4, 1896. A tribute to his memory may be found in The Home Missionary for March, 1897, page 551. Rev. William C. D. Christian, of Clara Center, Ga. Ordained in 1883. Rev. J. J. Findlay, Vernondale, Southern California, October 25, 1896. Ordained in 1893. 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.