Excerpt from Twenty Years' History: Of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1880 1900 On reflection he will see that the Society has been exceedingly fortunate in its leaders, and that they have been happy in their relations to the member ship; that the spirit of the age is increasingly in sympathy with alleviating painful and distressing conditions at home as Well as abroad. Foreign mis sions and Home missions are so related that when either is neglected, of the Church it may justly be said, These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 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.