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Pioneers and Founders, by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Title: Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Release Date: September 17, 2006 [eBook #19308]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 184 Macmillan & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
PIONEERS AND FOUNDERS, or Recent Workers in the Mission field.
BY C. M. YONGE,
Author of "The Heir of Radclyffe."
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London: MACMILLAN & CO 1874.
INTRODUCTION.
It has been my endeavour in the ensuing narratives to bring together such of the more distinguished Missionaries of the English and American nations as might best illustrate the character and growth of Mission work in the last two centuries. It is impossible to make it a real history of the Missions of modern times. If I could, I would have followed in the track of Mr. Maclear's admirable volume, but the field is too wide, the material at once too numerous and too scattered, and the account of the spread of the Gospel in the distant parts of the earth has yet to be written in volumes far exceeding the bulk of those allotte