Pioneers and Founders: Or, Recent Workers in the Mission Field
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Pioneers and Founders: Or, Recent Workers in the Mission Field
                                            
                            By Charlotte Mary Yonge
                            
                                19 Mar, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        It has been my endeavour in the ensuing narratives to bring together such of the more distinguished Missionaries of the English and American nations as might best illustrate the character and growth of Mission work in the last two centuries.  It is i
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                                                It has been my endeavour in the ensuing narratives to bring together such of the more distinguished Missionaries of the English and American nations as might best illustrate the character and growth of Mission work in the last two centuries.  It is impossible to make it a real history of the Missions of modern times.  If I could, I would have followed in the track of Mr. Maclear’s admirable volume, but the field is too wide, the material at once too numerous and too scattered, and the account of the spread of the Gospel in the distant parts of the earth has yet to be written in volumes far exceeding the bulk of those allotted to the “Sunday Library.” Less