The Advance Guard of Missions
To read the new book "The Advance Guard of Missions," just off the press, is to gain fresh inspiration from the lives of more than fifty brave Christian men and women, pioneers with the Gospel during the past century. The biographical sketches are intensely interesting. You are taken into the most important incidents of the life and work, and made to feel the real spirit behind the self-sacrifice and unceasing efforts, of such "Advance Guards" as— Marcus Whitman, Missionary Physician to the Indians;
John Eliot, Puritan Apostle to American Indians;
Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, First Protestant Missionary to India;
Hans Egede, Pioneer Lutheran Missionary to Greenland;
Robert Morrison;
The Judsons;
The Wesleys;
Dr. John Scudder;
Alexander Duff;
David Livingstone;
John G. Paton;
J. Hudson Taylor;
William Miller; and many others. The book is especially designed for the entertainment and education of the young people. It contains 27 chapters, with portraits of missionaries, and gives the most interesting and thrilling incidents in connection with the life work of each. The sketches average from three to thirty pages, the book containing 347 pages. The book is well printed, and furnished in two styles:
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