Proceedings Of The General Conference On Foreign Missions PDF Download

Excerpt from Proceedings of the General Conference on Foreign Missions: Held at the Conference Hall, in Mildmay Park, London, in October, 1878 In March, 1860, there was held at Liverpool a General Conference on Foreign Missions, to consider the extent and pool. character of the work then being carried on, and to gather up some of the conclusions which might be drawn, as to the best methods of rendering that work more efficient. The members of that Conference were a hundred and twenty-five in number; they were drawn from all Churches and Societies in Great Britain engaged in missionary work; and consisted of the Missionaries themselves, of the Members and Directors of Missionary Committees, and the principal supporters of Missionary Societies and schemes. The meetings of the Conference occupied four days; a great amount and variety of information were contributed by men who had been labouring in all parts of the world; the discussions on the various plans adopted and experiences detailed were frank and free; and the spirit of brotherly regard and mutual co-operation exhibited on every side was very striking. The deliberations of the Conference were purely consultative. The object aimed at was to gather information and to compare experience. No attempt was made its object. to judge the methods of Societies or individuals; or to press the acceptance of common conclusions. Every Missionary and every Society was left perfectly free to use in their own way the facts and conclusions presented by their brethren. The subjects discussed ranged over the entire field of missionary labour. 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.