Excerpt from Four Wonderful Years: A Sketch of the Origin, Growth, and Working Plans of the Epworth League During the past year or two there has been an eager demand for reliable information touching the origin and growth of the Epworth League. Many letters have been received requesting us to supply the important data. The impracticability of writing the information for each applicant suggested the idea of preparing the material in our possession for general distribution. This little volume does not assume to be a history.It is too early for that. A comprehensive review of the Epworth League movement will be written some day, and the matter which we have gathered in the following pages will be of value to our future historian. We have aimed to tell the story of the organization and development of our League in the simplest possible manner, and to present only such facts as will be of practical use to our young people. The chapter on "Incidents and Impressions of the Cleveland Conference," written by representatives of the five original societies, will be found particularly interesting. The first four years of the Epworth League have been very blessed. But we are only starting. 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.