Excerpt from The Methodist Review, 1886, Vol. 68: Bimonthly; Fifth Series, Volume II The Church now sees how felicitous, almost to a point im plying prescience, was the supervision which arranged that the General Conference in Philadelphia last year should be Closed by the two Bishops who were to die within six months - by Simpson's wise and loving valedictory and Wiley's solemn and tender prayer, each being a last utterance in the hearing of any American Conference. 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.