Conquests of the Cross, Vol. 1

Excerpt from Conquests of the Cross, Vol. 1: A Record of Missionary Work Throughout the World It need not be a dull one. If we have but the skill to tell the story well, it is one of the most intensely interesting that can be told. We shall pass through every land under heaven, and track the missionary, the explorer, the health officer, the Christian merchant, in African jungles, and beside Indian rivers, among the eternal snows of ice-bound Greenland, and in the coral islands of the Pacific. As we journey in imagination, we shall come in contact with every nation, kindred, people, and tongue, and shall pause to inquire into their manners and customs, their habits of thought and action, their religious rites and superstitious fears. We shall gather up,' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.