Foreign Missions Year Book of North America, 1919 (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. 1919 Excerpt: ...and Iron Cross. Pp. 240. New York, George H. Doran Company. From blue books and other trustworthy sources, Mr. Benson gathers damning evidence of the sanguinary alliance of Germany and Turkey in the Levant up to July, 1917. It enables the reader who is interested in the Levant as a mission field to follow any discussion at the peace table with intelligence. Marshall Broomhall, M.A.--Heirs Together of the Grace of Life: Benjamin Broomhall, Amelia Hudson Broomhall. Pp. xv, 146. London, Morgan and Scott, Ltd. As a former missionary of the China Inland Mission and for years its editorial secretary, this intimate biography of his parents gives the reader at once the story of pious and gracious lives and pictures the influence of a missionary secretary upon a Mission and also upon British public opinion and legislation as to the opium traffic whose abolition owed much, to Benjamin Broomhall. Edward G. Browne, M.A., M.B., F.B.A., FRCP.--Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion. Cambridge, Univer sity Press. Pp. xxiv, 380. Nearly thirty years of personal knowledge of Babi leaders and prolonged study of the movement and its literature make Professor Browne's book a notable addition to the literature of a faith which has its devotees even in American circles of intelligence and culture. Margaret E. Burton.--Women Workers of the Orient. Pp. 240. West Medford, Mass., Central Committee on the United Study of Missions. This text-book bears the marks of personal, as well as literary, acquaintance with woman's share in the old and new labors of Moslem lands, India, China and Japan. It is shot through with missionary threads, and is anything but a barren sociological discussion of its theme. John Wesley Butler.--History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mexico: Person...