Missionary Geography by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1909

Missionary Geography

By F. G.

An Important Notice

At a meeting of the text-book committee held at the time of the principals’ meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, last July, the following action was taken:— “Voted, That we seek some one to prepare at once a missionary hand-book to accompany Morton’s Geography.”

This matter has received considerable attention from the Department of Education since this action was taken, and at a recent meeting of the text-book committee the following action was taken:— “After some consideration of the publication of a missionary manual to accompany Morton’s Geography, which had been recommended at a previous meeting of the committee, the following resolution was passed:— “Resolved, That a list of books for a small library of this nature be prepared and recommended to all our schools teaching geography.”

Subsequently, at a meeting of the Department of Education, this action of the text-book committee was confirmed, and the following books were selected as a nucleus for the missionary library for all our church-schools: “Into All the World,” Wells; “Daybreak in the Dark Continent,” Naylor; “Dawn on the Hills of Tang,” Beach; “The Moslem World,” Zwemer; “India and Christian Opportunities,” Beach; “Miracles of Missions, Volume I,” Pierson.

Our schools are to seek those books which will create in the pupils a love for missionary work. There is no source for missionary teaching, aside from the Holy Scriptures, that is superior to that afforded in the teaching of geography. We should not teach geography from the commercial, but from the missionary view-point. And still we must not forget that the operation of our great mission stations involves commercial knowledge; but the leading thought in our geography study, around which all others cluster, is the rise and progress of the gospel in all lands.

Very careful attention has been given to the selection of these books to secure as nearly as possible those adapted to the comprehension of children studying geography. They will be valuable aids in other studies as well as in geography. The price of these six books, in cloth binding, is three dollars. They can be purchased through our tract societies.

The Department of Education earnestly hopes that in every school where geography is taught these books may form a library to which reference may be continually made by the teacher and pupils. F. G.