Excerpt from A Sermon: Delivered Before the Maine Missionary Society, at Portland, June 27, 1865, and the Annual Reports of the Trustees and Treasurer The Trustees, in presenting their Report, would gratefully recognize the kindness of God in the preservation of their own lives, and the lives of all the Missionaries of the Society, save one, who have been in its employment the past year. One, full of years and virtues, whose relations to the Society were coeval with its origin, who for half a century was one of its Board of Trustees, and for the last fourteen years one of its Missionaries, has recently closed his ministry of almost three-score years, and entered into rest. His venerable form and silvery head are low in the grave. 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.