Excerpt from A History of the Christian Denomination in America 1794-1911 A. D Board of the American Christian Convention by vote requested the author to prepare a history of the Christian denomination. From the undertaking he shrank at firs', but on second thought accepted the task and at once began to collect material. Rev. E. A. Devore, Rev. D. R: Atkinson and Prof. J. N. Dales were named at that time as a consulting committee, and they have made contribution by suggestion and material furnished. More than four years have been consumed in preparing the manuscript for this work. 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.