DEDICATION To the young men and maidens whose hearts God has touched, and who in life's fair morning, looking out over the world's great harvest-field, are asking, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" this volume is dedicated with the prayer that some of those who read these pages, hearing the voice of the Lord saying as He did to His prophet Isaiah, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" may answer as did the prophet, "Here am I; send me." AMONG the books which have been consulted and from which aid has been received, are the following: Fenger's History of the Tranquebar Mission; The Land of the Tamulians and its Missions, by the Rev. E. R. Baierlein; Letters of Ziegenbalg and Plütschau; Pearson's Life of Schwartz; Life and Times of Carey, Marshman and Ward, by John Clark Marshman; Christianity in India, by the Rev. J. Hough; Life of William Carey, Life of Alexander Duff, Life of John Wilson, Life of Henry Martyn, by George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D.; Memoir of Henry Martyn, by the Rev. John Sargent; Life of Gordon Hall, by the Rev. Horatio Bardwell; Life of Charles T. E. Rhenius, by his son; The Tinnevelly Mission, by the Rev. G. Pettitt; Life of the Rev. John Scudder, by the Rev. J. B. Waterbury, D.D.; True Yoke-Fellows in the Mission Field: being the Life and Labours of the Rev. John Anderson and the Rev. Robert Johnston, by the Rev. J. Braidwood; Memoir of the Rev. R. T. Noble, by his brother, the Rev. John Noble. To the very interesting sketch by the Rev. S. A. Gayley, the writer is indebted for the facts connected with the early years of the Rev. Isidor Loewenthal, and of his life in America after his arrival in that country. From the reports sent by Mr. Loewenthal to the Mission Board in America, have been gleaned all that relates to his life and work as a missionary in India. |
