Excerpt from The Mission Field, 1888, Vol. 33: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at Home and Abroad It may be of interest to give a brief account of some of the forms in which the Society has placed the information it has possessed before the Church and the world. Its annual Reports have always been the chief exponents of its action and aims; and its first Report has an ever fresh interest, and is one of the standing publications of the Society to this day. In early years the annual sermon formed the principal part of the Report; and by degrees, as the work grew, the accounts of the several Missions became more prominent. 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.