Excerpt from Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society: With the Minutes of the Annual Meeting and of the Board of Directors, January 16 and 17, 1883 The time is pregnant with events. May the American Coloniza tion Society be provided with abundant means to press forward with the manifest power and blessing of God upon it, until shall be ful filled in Africa the prophecy: The Gentiles shall come to Thy light. And Kings to the Brightness of Thy rising. 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.