Excerpt from Foreign Missions Year Book of North America, 1919 The Foreign Missions Year Book of North America is issued to meet an oft expressed need for a volume which would bring together annually, for mention at least, the chief events and the main developments that have marked the missionary movement during the year. Recognizing the need for such a volume, the Foreign Missions Confer ence of North America at its meeting at Garden City in January, 1918, committed the question, with power, to the Committee of Reference and Counsel. After due investiga tion, this Committee charged its sub Committee on the Missionary Research Library in collaboration with the Director of the Statistical Bureau, Mr. Burton St. John, to prepare and issue such a volume. The present volume admittedly falls far short of the ideals of its editors. The fact that it is the first of the series, with all that this involves of unavoidable experiment; the further fact that the absorbing claims Of war service limited greatly the time which its editors could contribute to this labor of love; and, finally, the necessity of limiting the volume to certain dimensions of size because Of cost, - these all serve to explain limitations and imperfections, even deliberate omissions, which another year may help to remedy. The aim has been a world - wide survey of all of the main foreign missionary events and developments Of the year 1918. Yet, while world-wide in its outlook, the survey is intended to preserve an American viewpoint, emphasizing such facts as affect more vitally North American missionary interests and activities. Furthermore the desire to make the volume readable and to avoid the impression of a mere enumeration of events, has mad it necessary to sacrifice the mention of many most interesting although minor missionary events. As the volume went to press the first Of December, events Of that month could not be included. 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.