CHAPTER I—The Beginnings CHAPTER II—Pioneers and Methods CHAPTER III—The Lutheran Church in India CHAPTER IV—The Lutheran Church in Africa CHAPTER V—The Lutheran Church in China, Japan and Elsewhere CHAPTER VI—Lutheran Foreign Missions on the Western Continent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of A. H. Francke (_Frontispiece_) Bartholomew Ziegenbalg Christian Frederick Schwartz (Preface) Louis Harms Hermannsburg Parsonage John Evangelist Gossner Men’s Bathing Ghat at Purulia Stall High School for Girls, Guntur, India Faculty of Watts Memorial College for Men, Guntur Hospital for Women and Children, Guntur Hospital for Women and Children, Rajahmundry Central Girl’s School, Rajahmundry Chapel of Leper Asylum, Kodur, India, (Joint Synod of Ohio) Inmates of Leper Asylum All India Lutheran Conference in 1914, Delegates from Eight Missions A Malagasy Witch Doctor Native Lutheran Ministers in Madagascar Main Station at Muhlenberg, Liberia, Africa Girls of Emma V. Day School, Muhlenberg, Africa Carrying Water and Sewing in Garden Central China Lutheran Theological Seminary, Shekow, Hupeh, China Chapel and Mission Homes, Chikungshan, China, (United Norwegian) Administration Building and Class Rooms, Kyushu, Gakuin, Kumamoto, Japan Pastor’s Residence, Chapel, and Student Dormitory, Tokyo. American Missionaries, Native Pastors and Workers with Wives and Children First Graduating Class from Kindergarten at Ogi, Japan Group of Theological Students, Kumamoto Lutheran Church in Borneo Lutheran Church in Java Officers and Teachers of Lutheran Sunday School, New Amsterdam, British Guiana Ituni School in School Room Which is Also the Church Some Indian Members of Ituni Congregation Lutheran Chapel, Monacillo, Porto Rico, with Two Missionaries and Two Native Workers Porto Rican Hut with Miss Mellander and Three Members of Church at Palo Seco Immanuel Colored Lutheran College, Greensboro, North Carolina Bethany Indian Mission Band, Wittenberg, Wisconsin (Norwegian Synod) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE