E-text prepared by a Project Gutenberg volunteer from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/MN41413ucmf_5 A TOUR OF THE MISSIONS Observations and Conclusions by AUGUSTUS HOPKINS STRONG, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D. President Emeritus of the Rochester Theological Seminary Author of "Systematic Theology," "Philosophy and Religion," "Christ in Creation," "Miscellanies," "Chapel-Talks," "Lectures on the Books of the New Testament," "The Great Poets and Their Theology," "American Poets and Their Theology" Philadelphia The Griffith and Rowland Press Boston Chicago St. Louis New York Los Angeles Toronto Winnipeg MCMXVIII Copyright, 1918, by Guy C. Lamson, Secretary Published March, 1918 A PERSONAL FOREWORD The forty years of my presidency and teaching in the Rochester Theological Seminary have been rewarded by the knowledge that more than a hundred of my pupils have become missionaries in heathen lands. For many years these former students have been urging me to visit them. Until recently seminary sessions and literary work have prevented acceptance of their invitations. When I laid down my official duties, two alternatives presented themselves: I could sit down and read through the new Encyclopædia Britannica, or I could go round the world. A friend suggested that I might combine these schemes. The publishers provide a felt-lined trunk to hold the encyclopædia: I could read it, and circumnavigate the globe at the same time. This proposition, however, had an air of cumbrousness. I concluded to take my wife as my encyclopædia instead of the books, and this seemed the more rational since she had, seven or eight years before, made the same tour of the missions which I had in mind. To her therefore a large part of the information in the following pages is due, for in all my journey she was my guide, philosopher, and friend.