Excerpt from Journal of the Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in South-Carolina: Held in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th of February, 1842; With Lists of the Clergy and Parishes, the Parochial Reports, the Constitution, Canons and Rules of Order, and the Standing Resolutions Of the value of our Book of Common Prayer as a text book, for the instruction not of the educated only, but of tire uneducated also, among other facts that might be adduced, are the following from the late report of our south-western Missionary Bishop The lady in charge of the school for the Cherokee Nation, and who is a Missionary of the Ameri can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, having labored among that people for above fifteen years, assured me that she had found nothing so Well adapted to her purposes as the Book of Common Prayer. The whole arrangement was well suited to impress the truths of the Gospel on the heathen mind, and particularly the regular recur rence of the same language and ideas in the Sunday services. 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.