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A TOUR OF THE MISSIONS
Observations and Conclusions
A TOUR OF THE
MISSIONS
Observations and Conclusions
BY
AUGUSTUS HOPKINS STRONG, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.
PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF THE ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
AUTHOR OF "SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY," "PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION," "CHRISTIN CREATION," "MISCELLANIES," "CHAPEL-TALKS," "LECTURES ON THEBOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT," "THE GREAT POETS AND THEIRTHEOLOGY," "AMERICAN POETS AND THEIR THEOLOGY"
PHILADELPHIA
THE GRIFFITH AND ROWLAND PRESS
BOSTON CHICAGO ST. LOUIS NEW YORK
LOS ANGELES TORONTO WINNIPEG
MCMXVIII
Copyright, 1918, by
GUY C. LAMSON, Secretary
Published March, 1918
A PERSONAL FOREWORD
The forty years of my presidency and teaching in the RochesterTheological Seminary have been rewarded by the knowledge that more thana hundred of my pupils have become missionaries in heathen lands. Formany years these former students have been urging me to visit them.Until recently seminary sessions and literary work have preventedacceptance of their invitations. When I laid down my official duties,two alternatives presented themselves: I could sit down and read throughthe new Encyclopædia Britannica, or I could go round the world. A friendsuggested that I might combine these schemes. The publishers provide afelt-lined trunk to hold the encyclopædia: I could read it, andcircumnavigate the globe at the same time. This proposition, however,had an air of cumbrousness. I concluded to take my wife as myencyclopædia instead of the books, and this seemed the more rationalsince she had, seven or eight years before, made the same tour of themissions which I had in mind. To her therefore a large part of theinformation in the following pages is due, for in all my journey she wasmy guide, philosopher, and friend.
[vi]Our tour would not have covered so much ground nor have been so crowdedwith incidents of interest, if it had not been for the foresight andassistance of the Reverend Louis Agassiz Gould. He was a student in ourseminary forty years ago, and after his graduation he became amissionary to China. Though his work abroad lasted only a decade, hisinterest in missions has never ceased, and he is an authority withregard to their history and their methods. I was fortunate in securinghim as my courier, secretary,