Excerpt from The Prospective Advance of Christian Missions, Suggested by Present Lines of Movement of Christendom: Special Discourse Delivered Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at Its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, Boston, Mass., October 14, 1885 The missionary work carried On in the world under the leadership of the Divine Lord, in whatever is essential to its method, its instruments, or its contemplated scope, is set before us with immortal distinctness in the words of the Master, addressed to the apostles, and recorded in Acts I, viii: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. The swift widening of the area of their duty before the apostles first impresses us as we ponder these words, and we recognize a Leader to whom spaces or times offer no limit as he opens to his followers majestic plans. 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.