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Excerpt from History of the New York Bible Society, From Its Origin in 1823 to the Present Time This society, originally known as the Young Men's New York Bible Society, like most of the important benevolent enterprises of our age, sprang out of an awakened religious feeling in the com munity in which it had its birth. 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.