Excerpt from Autobiography of William G. Schauffler: For Forty-Nine Years a Missionary in the Orient With some omissions and verbal alterations, the narra tive is published just as it was written for the home circle, and herein, perhaps, lies one of its chief attrae tions for those who knew the author. That it should be a somewhat disjointed narrative is a matter of course, in View of the circumstances under which it was written, (often lying for months untouched, ) and the necessity of cutting it down to its present dimensions. A few ex tracts from letters published in the Missionary Herald, some fifty years ago, are added to the autobiography. 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.