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Title: A Tour of the Missions
Observations and Conclusions

Author: Augustus Hopkins Strong

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Language: English

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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," "Christ
in Creation," "Miscellanies," "Chapel-Talks," "Lectures on the
Books of the New Testament," "The Great Poets and Their
Theology," "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 Rochester
Theological Seminary have been rewarded by the knowledge that more than
a hundred of my pupils have become missionaries in heathen lands. For
many years these former students have been urging me to visit them.
Until recently seminary sessions and literary work have prevented
acceptance of their invitations. When I laid down my official duties,
two alternatives presented themselves: I could sit down and read through
the new Encyclopaedia Britannica, or I could go round the world. A friend
suggested that I might combine these schemes. The publishers provide a
felt-lined trunk to hold the encyclopaedia: I could read it, and
circumnavigate the globe at the same time. This proposition, however,
had an air of cumbrousness. I concluded to take my wife as my
encyclopaedia instead of the books, and this seemed