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Excerpt from Minutes of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the General Executive Committee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Held in the Centenary M. E. Church, Minneapolis, May, 1877 The session opened at 9 A. M. The devotional exercises. Were Conducted by Mrs. Nind, of the Western Branch. By resolution, the introduction of the missionaries present was made the first order; and Rev. Mr. And Mrs. Hoskins and °miss Sparkes, of India, and Miss Porter, of China, were introduced and spoke feelingly of their work, and of the good providence of God in raising up so efficient an instrumentality as the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for. Carrying forward our Missionary enterprises; which was followed with prayer by Rev. Mr. Martin of Minneapolis, for the special blessing of God upon his servants, and upon their labors, on their return to their respective fields. Miss Porter. Was assigned a seat with the Western Branch delega tion. Letters were read extending invitations to the delegates to stop at Milwaukee and Evanston, on their return from Minneapolis, and assist in Missionary meetings; and they were referred to a special committee, consisting of Mrs. Taplin and Mrs. Bayliss. A resolution prevailed that the Branches be arranged and called in the order of priority of organization, as follows: New England, New York, Philadelphia, North Western, Western, Cincinnati, Baltimore. 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.