Excerpt from The Success of Christian Missions: Testimonies to Their Beneficent Results Let me cut away all grounds for another objection which is often plausibly urged for despising missions, and was made not many years ago by a noble duke in the House of Lords, that missions are a 'gigantic impracticability, ' or an organised hypocrisy, ' and that every man engaged in them must be a fanatic or an impostor. Thus do men, who have never taken the smallest trouble to inquire into the subject, reiterate the ignorant assertion that 'missions are a failure.' A failure! 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.