Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1898-1899: Including Minutes of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, Held in Nashville, Tenn., May 18-23, 1899 The Board has reached its majority, and can look back upon a record very creditable, considering all its environments. Gratitude swells many hearts, because much has been achieved; but regret, with its humiliating touch, oppresses, because so much more might have been done. Rather than dwell upon the delinquencies of the past, there should be a hopeful forward look, with the fixed purpose of doing greater things. The work of foreign missions cannot stand still; advancement is the law of its life. What effects of our efforts can be seen in the fields entered? There may not be a very large number of conversions recorded, though thousands have passed from death unto life, and the representatives of the Board have the joy of knowing that they have not labored In vain In the Lord. The most marked change is perhaps in the attitude of the heathen whom we have sought to influence. Going among them, living beside them, Showing Christian home life and Chris. 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.