Excerpt from A Hundred Years of Missions: The Story of Progress Since Carey's Beginning IT is sometimes a question how far an introduction helps the book it introduces. If the author is well known he needs no such formal entrance into the literary world if he is as yet unfamiliar to a wide circle of readers, his book itself is his best recommendation. Dickens used to say that it was an easy thing to come out into society, but a difficult thing to prevent going in again. And so a book or an author that proves unworthy Of the introduction to the public, can not long float, notwithstanding the outside supports in tended to give it buoyancy. In the case of the author of this volume, introductory words seem doubly needless, inasmuch as he has for years earned his right to the public ear. Aside from his well-known service to Home missions in the superintend ence of this work in Utah and surrounding territory for six years, he has for several years been one Of the editorial staff Of T he missionary Review of tire World; and has won his way to the readers, the world over, by his facile pen, his scholarly research, his high ideals of service, his accurate historical knowledge, and his vigorous style. The outline Of thought covered in this Hundred Years of Missions, is unique, and has been followed in no other book Of which we know. There will be found here a review of the century's work in this and other lands, which will both instruct and invigorate the reader. 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.