Excerpt from Great Missionaries: A Series of Biographies Although in attempting to estimate the increase of the missionary sentiment in our Churches, or the advance Of the missionary enterprise, we have no instruments resembling those by which men of science are able to gauge the depth of tides, or to calculate the velocity of winds, there are not wanting facts and signs which may help us at least to approximate the truth. Leaving statistics then, and arithmetical figures to others, let us, in keeping with the intention of the present volume, glance at some of the signs which our literature affords. 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.