Excerpt from A History of American Baptist Missions in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America: Under the Care of the American Baptist Missionary Union In his endeavors to secure accuracy of dates and facts, the author acknowledges the valuable aid he has received from the Corresponding Secretaries of the Board, and from the gentle men appointed to examine the manuscript; from all of whom he has experienced the kindest courtesy and attention in con ducting every part of the work. The maps, though small, will be found valuable aids to the text, and the statistical tables con tained in the Appendix serve to render the volume a fuller ex ponent of the present condition of the Missionary Union. It is now submitted to the public in the humble hape that it may be deemed worthy of a place in the already extensive literature of Christian missions, and that it may be made instrumental in promoting a cause which is identified with all the highest inter ests of the human race. 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.