25X7 PREFACE THE experience of the Educational Department of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions indicates that student study classes greatly appreciate those courses in which life is made prominent, either that of the races or of the missionaries themselves, with the great mission fields as their background. Missionary history, in order to be acceptable to such classes, needs to be linked to great lives and to needy peoples. It is because the author of this volume has so well succeeded in sketching salient facts in the annals of Protestant missions and in connecting them with heroic names that it has been chosen for use as a text-book. Yet for the reason that so much history is compressed within such brief limits, it should be used with other missionary literature at hand in order to fill in the sketch with color and additional life. An old work found in many libraries, W. Brown's "History of the Propagation of Christianity among the Heathen since the Reformation," is the best available auxiliary for this purpose. Early colonial history also furnishes excellent supplementary material for those chapters having to do with Indian missions in America. As this volume was originally published in 1894, a few changes, mainly of dates and statistics, have been made in order to make it correspond with facts at the beginning of the twentieth century. CONTENTS I. PERIOD OF THE REFORMATION. PAGES 3-21. Limited Views-Sixteenth Century - Unfavorable Conditions, - PAGES 22-38. The Netherlands - Opportunity for Missions-Evangelism in IV. His Methods Initial Proceedings - Civilization Developing- Peerless Achievement - His Successes - Undoubted Con- petuated. V. AMONG INDIANS. PAGES 82-116. - In Massachusetts, Southeastern Section-Martha's Vineyard VI. - DAVID BRAINERD. PAGES 117-147. Brainerd's Influence - Religious Experience - Spiritual Strug- VII. DANISH MISSIONS. PAGES 148-174. Denmark and the Anglo-Saxons - Frederick IV - Origin of |