Excerpt from African Missionary Heroes and Heroines Were it but possible in the time and space that can be given to this book to write Of Stanley and Lavigerie the cardinal, Of Gordon and Rhodesia Rhodes, Of Bishop Hall and Hannington, Of Thornton, Pilkington, and Andrew Murray, Of Mary Kingsley, Mungo Park, and Samuel Baker, Of Rebman, Schoen and Klein, Of Barth and Nachtigal, of Denham, Junker, Overweg and Vogel, Of Browne, and Speke, and Grant, and van der Decken, Of Gordon Cumming, Arnot, Emin Pasha, of Madame Tinney, Schweinfurth and Selous, Of Bishop gobat and his Pilgrim Street to Abyssinia, Of chureh-fathers, Cyril, Cyprian, and Athanasius, Of Clement, Origen and Tertullian, and Of the greatest Of them - St. Augustine - and many more; for days, and months, and years, were one to write, and tell the tales - innumerable, thrilling - Of all these mighty men, whose names you see here on this page, we should have failed to mention most of Afric's heroes. 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.