Excerpt from Official Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting of the National Conference of United and Other Christian Churches: Held at Washington, D. C., October 16-19, 1899 All this seems to the Council to be just occasion for con gratulation and hope, because it gives promise of a coming period of strong advance. Those who criticise our move ment have too hastily assumed that we could live in the future only at some dying rate. Certainly, the voice of this Conference was one of sober yet confident and cheerful life. There was no boastfulness in speaking of work done or wait ing to be done. There was, on the other hand, the Clear perception of a place of dignity and power to be filled, and a strong determination to press forward, with God's help, toward larger usefulness. With reference to the practical duties of the year before us, the Conference plainly selected these following lines of work for special effort and emphasis. 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.