Excerpt from Signs of Danger and of Promise: Duties of American Protestants at the Present Crisis The future, differs essentially from the past in this respect; it is yet to be, and to be writ ten. Its materials will be gathered from the developments of moral character, made by free and accountable agents under the govern ment of God in this world. 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.