Excerpt from The Highway of Mission Thought: Eight of the Greatest Discourses on Missions When he had laid down his life, and taken it up again, he sent forth his disciples to preach the good tidings to every creature, and to endeavor by all pos sible methods to bring over a lost world to God. They went forth according to their divine commis sion, and wonderful success attended their labors: the civilized Greeks, and uncivilized barbarians, each yielded to the cross of Christ, and embraced it as the only way of salvation. Since the apostolic age, many other attempts to Spread the gospel have been made, which have been considerably successful, not withstanding which a very considerable part of man kind are still involved in all the darkness of heathen ism. Some attempts are still making, but they are inconsiderable in comparison of what might be done if the whole body of Christians entered heartily into the spirit of the divine command on this subject. Some think little about it, others are acquainted with the state of the world, and others love their wealth better than the souls of their fellow-creatures. 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.