Excerpt from The History of the Origin and First Ten Years of the British and Foreign Bible Society Of the manner 11] which the plan has been executed, the author may be permitted, in general, to say, that he has done the best which his peculiar circumstances would allow. The variety and urgency of his official duties in the Society, added to the concerns of a nume rous family, and the interruptions of frequent indisposition, render ed his task not a little onerous, and will, he trusts, be accepted as some apology for the delay and the imperfection with which it has been performed. 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.