Excerpt from Our Heroes: Or United Brethren Home Missionaries It has not been our aim, in the preparation of the fol lowing chapters, to give a connected history of the Church, but rather to present briefly the lives of a few of the heroes who wrought so nobly in the early days of the various conferences named. Very much that the book contains never appeared in print before. This, no doubt, will interest the reader; and the Church at large, we are sure, will appreciate the fact that so much historical data have been gathered up and put into permanent form. A few years more, with others of the landmarks removed, and no little of this would have been lost beyond recovery. Our task has been both pleasant and difficult. Pleas ant, because in studying pioneer achievements we were constantly in communion with the brave and good, and experienced the thrill of a new purpose in our own lives; difficult, owing to the fact that but few of our missionary frontiersmen kept a diary, or received extended notice through the Telescope, or other publications. Some of whom we have written deserve a much fuller notice than we were able to give them. When we began to survey the field of heroes, it soon became apparent that we could not, in our limited space, mention all who had been prominent in carving out the foundations on which those who followed them were to build. Many whose names do not appear were and are worthy in every respect. Be it far from any of us to covet their crowns. 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.