Excerpt from Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Domestic Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: Presented May, 1868 The Committee appointed to examine the Report of the Board of Domestic Missions, begs leave to report as toi' lows, viz. The Report of the Board of Domestic Missions presents much that is gratifying and satisfactory. During a part of the year great anxiety was felt, on account of deficient funds, but the apprehensions proved unfounded, ' and the fiscal year ended prosperously. The receipts from the churches amounted to This sum, however, would have proved inadequate to the expenditures, had it not been for the previous balance of the year preceding, and the reserve fund, which enabled the Committee to pay out and to close the year with a balance of Of this balance, were due to missionaries, leaving a work ing balance of only about This result, gratifying as it is, inasmuch as the Board ends the year without debt, was only reached by curtailing the salaries of the mission aries, already scanty enough, twenty-five per cent as well as by voluntary economy in the office. 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.

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