Excerpt from The Missionary Campaign: Its Principles, Methods, and Problems A handbook of this kind must take one of two lines. Either it must aim at surveying Missions historically, or it must be limited to the study of principles, methods, and problems, together with such illustra tions as are possible. There is certainly not room for both these objects to be pursued in one such volume. At the present time strong reasons favour the latter alternative. The past history of Missions has been summarised as lately as 1904 by no less an authority than Dr. Eugene Stock (a S/zort Handeoole of Missions, Longmans, Green and any further efforts in this difficult direction might well be thought un necessary and presumptuous. On the other hand, the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910, following upon the pan-anglican Congress held two years earlier, and leaving behind it a legacy Of nine systematic volumes of Report upon different aspects of the science of Missions, has brought the matter of leading principles very much before the public mind. 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.