Excerpt from Our India Missions: A Thirty Year's History of the India Mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, Together With Personal ReminiscencesA nervous dread of wearying my friends with many words has accompanied me through every page of the book; and yet I have felt it proper to yield some deference to the just de mands of my subject. Could the suggester of brevity but see what masses of interesting material I have left out, and what seas I have skimm'ed, taking only the cream, he would surely hold his peace, or complain that I have not given him two volumes instead of one.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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