Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our First General Convention Held at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 22 to 27, 1849 The constantly enlarging development of the Cause of Missions among us, and the questions its advocacy has excited, lend a peculiar interest at the present hour to the Convention of 1849; for it was there that the first Missionary Society was formed, and our activity in this great work of the church received its first strong impulse. 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.