Excerpt from Leavening the Nation: The Story of American Home MissionsOne class of readers has been kept continually in view, that already large and growing number of women in our churches who are making a systematic study of Home Missions and preparing programs of study for others. It is hoped that frequent references made to books and articles containing a fuller treatment of topics named will be found useful to them.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.