Excerpt from Abyssinia: Its Past, Present, and Probable Future; A Lecture, With Notes and Appendices AT the close of last year, I submitted to the worthy Incumbent of St. Paul's, Dalston, to whom this little work is inscribed, the desirability of organising a series of monthly Missionary Lectures, to be delivered in the new Infant School in his District Parish, with a view to promote an active missionary spirit amongst the people under our spiritual charge. The chief pastor of that District Parish at once entered heart and soul into the proposition. 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.