Excerpt from Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society: With the Minutes of the Annual Meeting and of the Board of Directors The Rev. Thomas A. Morris, D. D., of Ohio, senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who departed this life on the 2d of September, was a veteran soldier of the Cross, and a Christian whose simple piety and great experience gave weight to his opinions. He had been a Vice President of the Society Since 1864. 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.