APPENDIX





FOREWORD.


I was dining one day with a very successful business man who,
although his business had extensive relations in many lands, was
meagerly informed about the work of missions. I thought I might
interest him by telling him something of the effects of missions
upon commerce. So I told him about how the civilizing presence of
missionary effort creates new demands which in turn increases
trade. He listened comprehendingly for a while and then remarked:
"What you say is interesting, but what I wish to know is not
whether missions increase business--we have business enough and
have methods of increasing the volume--What I want to know is
whether the missionary is making good and whether Christianity is
making good in meeting the spiritual needs of the heathen. If ever
I should become greatly interested in missions it would be because
I should feel that Christianity could solve the spiritual problem
for the heathen better than anything else. What are the facts
about that phase of missions?"

These words made a profound impression on me, and since then I
have spent little time in setting forth the by-products of
missions, tremendously important and interesting though they are.
I place the main emphasis on how gloriously Christianity, through