Pioneers and founders : or, Recent workers in the Mission field . HBOLOGIGiili/ INTRODUCTION. It has been my endeavour in the ensuing narratives to bringtogether such of the more distinguished Missionaries of theEnghsh and American nations as might best illustrate thecharacter and growth of Mission work in the last two is impossible to make it a real history of the Missionsof modem times. If I could, I would have followed in thetrack of Mr. Maclears admirable volume, but the field is too\vide, the material at once too numerous and too scattered,and the account of the spread of the
Pioneers and founders : or, Recent workers in the Mission field . HBOLOGIGiili/ INTRODUCTION. It has been my endeavour in the ensuing narratives to bringtogether such of the more distinguished Missionaries of theEnghsh and American nations as might best illustrate thecharacter and growth of Mission work in the last two is impossible to make it a real history of the Missionsof modem times. If I could, I would have followed in thetrack of Mr. Maclears admirable volume, but the field is too\vide, the material at once too numerous and too scattered,and the account of the spread of the Gospel in the distantparts of the earth has yet to be written in volumes far ex-ceeding the bulk of those allotted to the Sunday Library. Two large classes of admirable Missions have been pur-posely avoided,—namely, those of the Jesuits in Japan, China,and North and South America, and those of the Moraviansin Greenland, the United States, and Africa. These are nobleworks, but they are subjects apart, and our narratives deal withmen exclusively of British blo
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