Excerpt from Etchings of the East As a member of the editorial staff of the Christian Advocate (nashville) the author of this volume, ac companied by his wife, made a journey around the world in 1908. The chief object of the journey was to visit the mission fields in Japan, Korea, China, and India for the purpose of making some study of the people, the methods of -missionary work, and the re sults of missionary labor. Official permission was granted for this long absence from the editorial office with the understanding that each week a letter relat ing to what was seen should appear in the Christian Advocate. The letters were written in hotels, mis sionaries' homes, and, for the most part, on ocean steamers. Seldom was a letter finished within many miles of the place where it was begun. Careful, pains taking work was impossible. The letters appeared in the Christian Advocate just as they came first from the pen. When the last letter of the series was published, the statement was made that the articles would not be issued in book form. The requests for the publica tion became so numerous that finally the writer con sented to send forth to the reading public the letters just as they appeared in the Christian Advocate. They are published with the earnest hope that some new interest in the non-christian peoples may be awakened and that some new missionary effort will be put forth as a result of the reading of these letters. 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.