Excerpt from The Great Value and Success of Foreign Missions: Proved by Distinguished Witnesses; Being the Testimony of Diplomatic Ministers, Consuls, Naval Officers, and Scientific and Other Travelers in Heathen and Mohammedan Countries; Together With That of English Viceroys, Governors, and Military Officers in In Scarcely a month passes without an article appearing in a leading newspaper or periodical, or without a book being published, in which Foreign Missions are declared to be failures. These unfounded statements are from residents or travellers abroad, who are either hostile to missions, or who are uninformed upon the subject. 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.