Excerpt from Edward Gayer Andrews: A Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchThe period from 1872 to 1904 witnessed the open ing of missions in Mexico, in western South America, in western China, in Korea and in Japan. There were no hospitals in 1872, in 1904 there were at least twenty-five. The deaconess work, the Epworth League, the Woman's Home Missionary Society, the City Missionary Societies, the Board of Education all these were begun during the period between 1872 and 1904.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.