Excerpt from After Fifty Years: Or an Historical Sketch of the Guntur Mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the General Synod in the United States of America The hope of the author is that the book may conduce to a more intelligent conception of our Mission and its work among the people of our own dear Church, and awaken a deeper interest and zeal in this great cause of world-evangelization. That such a hope may be realized is his prayer, and with it the book is laid before the Church of whose Mission it treats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.