Excerpt from The Condition of the Heathen and Their Conversion: A Sermon Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at the Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting, Held at Des Moines, Iowa, October 5, 1886Our duty to do a given thing for others may depend upon different considerations. Whether necessity requires it Should be done, whether it is more urgently needed than something else, and Whether, if we decline, it will be done, and all the better, by somebody else.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.