Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirty-Three Years of Missions in the Church of the Brethren The progress of missionary effort in the Church of the Brethren, for the last Sixty years, is a subject full of deep and absorbing interest to all who are in terested in this most important branch of the Church's activity For the last half of these years the growth of missionary sentiment and the devel Opment of misslons in the church has been phenom enal, and here the student, of this phase of church life, finds a subject well worth his careful attention It may be said that the non-missionary church has the sentence of death written over against its name. If not already dead, it is dying It can not be en titled to the name of a church of Jesus Christ, for his work, all the way through, was the work of a missionary. The Church of the Brethren, by her activities and growth in this important line of work. 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.