Excerpt from The Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the American Madura Mission, 1878 Mr. John S. Ch'and1er writes of a (wide Awake Society, formed in his station two years ago, which, true to its name, has been very active and useful in various ways, promoting'sabbath observance and. Exciting a great interest in all church Work. Jhe mentions-among the good things they have done, that they have banished from the Christian community 2not only drunkenness, but-the use of intoxicating liquor. Mr. Chandler notes also an increase of fifty-eight per cent. On the year previous inthe aver age attendance -on the Sabbath services. Improvement inythis particular has been observable at every one of our stations; and in some cases the percentage ef increase is much higher. This we may also regard as a result of greater spiritual life. we, therefore, feel greatlyencouraged in our 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.