The Advance Guard of Missions
"The Advance Guard of Missions." By Clifford G. Howell. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50. Pacific Press Publishing Assn., Mountain View, Cal. The object of this book is to set forth in vivid life sketches the work of various missionary pioneers in different parts of the world. It is to show the simple, earnest faith possessed by these men, and God's responses to their faith. It is to show how, as these men went with the gospel of Christ in their hearts and a burden for souls, men and women in all conditions of life, from the civilized, moral worldling, to those sunk in the lowest pagan idolatry, yielded themselves to the gospel call, and became changed men and women. It is a book which is helpful to all, a book which ought to be read by young men and young women in this age of skepticism and infidelity. The lives of John Eliot, David Brainerd, Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, Count Zinzendorf, the Wesleys, William Carey, Robert Morrison, Adoniram Judson, and a score of others, are indeed inspiring. One would look far and long to find greater heroes in the civil and military world than these men have been. There are twenty-seven different chapters in the book, dealing with a third of a hundred missionaries. It is an inspiring book for the young.