Excerpt from Handbook and Incidents: Of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was organized by direction of the General Assembly, in the city of Baltimore, October 3rst, 1837, and the year in which this little Manual was first published was its semi-centennial. 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.