Excerpt from Counting the Cost: A Sermon Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at the Seventy-Second Annual Meeting, Held in Pilgrim Church, St. Louis, Oct. 18, 1881 Experience has taught us that the high morality and intense spirituality of the New Testament constitute no obstacle to the evangelization of the rudest races. It has been main. 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.