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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 2, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 22.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISSIONS

A Thesaurus of Facts, Historical, Statistical, and Geographical, Ethnological and Biographical, With Maps, Bibliography and Statistical Tables.

EDITED BY REV. EDWIN MUNSELL BLISS Late Asst. Agent American Bible Society for the Levant.

Complete in Two Volumes, size 8¼ x 10¼, over 1,300 pages, Elaborate Maps, Etc. Price, Cloth, $12.

This great work is the first attempt to give, in exhaustive array, all the facts of importance concerning the missions of all denominations and countries, their difficulties, their results, the character of the races among whom the work is prosecuted, and the social and political conditions surrounding them.

Its contributors and assistants have included a large number of specialists from every quarter of the globe, whose special knowledge and information enabled them to contribute articles of great value and of the highest authority.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISSIONS

Includes Among its Prominent Features

The General History and Development of the Missionary Societies of the World.
An account, to date, of over 2,500 Mission Stations of the World.
The History, Ethnology, Geography, Political Conditions, etc., as specially relating to Mission Work of the Different Countries where Mission Work is carried on.
Valuable information concerning the Mental and Moral Characteristics, as well as the Social Environments, Religious Tendencies, etc., of Each Race reached by Missionary Enterprise.
Particulars regarding Home Missions, City Missions, Sunday-school Work, Young Men's Christian Associations, etc., etc.
An account of over 300 Versions of the Bible, with Specimen Verses.
Bibliographical Sketches of prominent Missionaries. This feature is of great value, showing as they do the experiences, characters and methods of the most successful workers.
Elaborate Maps especially prepared for the work, and which cover all the mission fields of the world, showing Location of all the Stations.
Special Articles, such as Historical Geography of Missions, Music and Missions, Methods and Organization of Missionary Work.
A Bibliography which embraces all books of reference in Missionary Work, and covering every department of Missionary Research. An indispensable feature to all who have occasion to speak or write on any phase of Christian Missions.¹
Valuable Appendices which form an Encyclopedia alone, even though separate and apart from the main work.
A General Index of the entire work, a most valuable ready reference to the mass of intelligence contained in the volumes.

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