Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Missions of the United Brethern: For Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen, From Their Commencement to the Year 1817 In some parts the narrative may perhaps appear redundant; a defect, which the author felt himself unable wholly to avoid, without making his performance a mere register of names and dates and thus depriving the reader Of a knowledge of those facts, which, even in their minuter circumstances, display the operations of a divine hand. 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.