 A first edition of three thousand copies of this appeal was published in October 1865 through the generous help of Mr. William Thomas Berger, and copies were by permission freely distributed at the Mildmay Conference, held that year, which at that time was held in the last week of October.Another edition was called for in the following year, and another in 1868, and again another in 1872, and then for a time the book was allowed to go out of print.But between June 1884 and September of the same year a fifth edition of five thousand copies was exhausted, and a sixth and seventh edition followed soon after.