Excerpt from Minutes of the Michigan Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Thirty-Sixth Session: Held at St. Joseph, Mich., September 13th to September 19th, 1871 Conference now presented, and as' heartily concur in all its expressions of admiration for our economy, and determination to sustain the same in all its essential features; and we rejoice to welcome our laymen to their new responsibilities as our fellow helpers in the Lord. 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.