The Missionary Review Volume 33, No. 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...The story of George Grenfell, the intrepid missionary, and the great map-maker of the Kongo, is the history of the Kongo Free State. Leopold decorated him with many medals, but when Grenfell saw the treachery of Leopold, and how false he had been to the sacred trust committed to his charge, he tore the medals from his breast and spurned the favor of the man whose honor he had once received. Leopold became to him as he became to all thinking men in the expressive language of the African: "Mukabya" (a causer of tears)." What shall we say of that other Grenfell, the doctor, whose heroic deeds in Labrador have won for him a name in the world's true hall of fame. (c) The great world problems of the times are linked with the missionary. The volume "Twenty Years in the Persian Empire," by Dr. Samuel G. Wishard, unfolds the strength and weakness of the Persian revolution. Dr. Wishard was a keen observer; he was physician to the Shah; he entered the homes of the lowliest; he knew Persia, and his book is illuminating. The pension system abounds in Persia. Pensions are more freely granted, if possible, than with us, but there is so much graft that it is almost impossible to collect pension money, and so the Persians have a proverb, "The man who gets a pension is like the man who marries a wife for her money--he earns it." I have recently had the pleasure of looking over the proof-sheets of a great book, "Fiftythree Years in Syria." It is the history of the whole Turkish situation for the last half-century, viewed through the eyes of one of the world's great missionary heroes, the Rev. Henry H. Jessup, the grand old man of Syria. The man who reads this volume will become acquainted with the social, economic, political and re...