Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Home Missionary Society of the City of Philadelphia: December 15, 1870 The Objects of the Society and its mode of operation hav e been so fully and frequently explained in former reports, that deemed unnecessary to occupy space on those points in this. The Beard, therefore, proceeds at once to the duty in hand. 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.