Excerpt from The Road Ahead: Experiences in the Life of Frances C. Gage This little story is filled with romance, while it portrays the life of a great, big heart, balanced by a rare intelligence, in a woman not physically strong but with the courage and consecration of the apostles of old. Some thought Miss Gage was burying her splendid talent when she went to Turkey as a mission ary, but now we see that through the los ing of her life she found it in glorious abundance, both for the period in which she lived, and for the years of recon struction yet to come in that stricken land. She marked out the path by which others may find the way to the field of boundless service. 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.