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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

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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 allotted to the
"Sunday Library."

Two large classes of admirable Missions have been purposely
avoided,--namely, those of the Jesuits in Japan, China, and North and
South America, and those of the Moravians in Greenland, the United
States, and Africa. These are noble works, but they are subjects apart,
and our narratives deal with men exclusively of British blood, with the
exception of Schwartz, whose toils were so entirely accepted and adopted
by the Church of England, that he cannot but be reckoned among her
ambassadors. The object, then, has been to throw together such
biographies as are most complete, most illustrative, and have been found
most inciting to stir up others--representative lives, as far as
possible--from the time when the destitution of the Red Indians first
stirred the heart of John Eliot, till the misery of the hunted negro
br