Excerpt from History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ The light of history, in the past, and observation, in the present, will reveal to an impartial observer, how far the divine injunction, in the letter and in the spirit, has been complied with, in the Churches. In view of this, the author claims no pre-eminence for the Church, the rise and progress of which he has used his best efforts to sketch in the following pages. 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.