HISTORY OF 



AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONS, 



IN ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE, AND NORTH AMERICA, 



BY WILLIAM GAMMELL, M. A. 







With Seven Maps. l'2mo. Price Seventy -Jive Cents. 

 SIXTH THOUSAND. 



The publishers have been favored with the following highly commendatory letters 

 from those who are the best judges f the accuracy of the work, namely, the mis- 

 sionaries Themselves, who have been long in the field, and are presumed to be better 

 acquainted with the subject than other individuals. 



Their unequivocal testimony to the fidelity of the work must be gratifying to 

 even,- well-wisher of the cause, and commend it to the attention of all interested in 

 'Jjis subject. 



Since the return of Messrs. Osgood and Vinton, they have been serving the inter- 

 ests of the Board in various parts of the country, and have also in connection with 

 iheir agency taken much interest in the circulation of the History, deeming it an 

 efficient instrument in promo: ing their benevolent designs. 



[From Rev. J. II. Vinton, of the Maulmain and Karen Mission.] 



I am so much interested in the circulation of Prof. Gammell's History of Missions, 

 iiiat I nm resolved to give away every fifth copy. I cannot afford to make any 

 3rofit in the sale of such a work. It is, as a whole, the most reliable History of 

 he missions I have ever read, and could it be put in the hands of every man in the 

 denomination, able to pay for it, you might then almost dispense with all other agen- 

 cies, except the Magazine and Macedonian, which would still be needed, as a con- 

 tinuation of the History so well begun. 



[From Rev. S. M. Osgood, of the Bunnan Mission.] 



Accompanying is an order for one hundred and fifty copies of Prof. Gammell's 

 Fli story of American Baptist Missions. I read this History with great interest 

 immediately after its publication, and having been for more than twelve years con- 

 nected with the Mission in Burmah, am happy to be able to bear decided testimony 

 to its authenticity, so far as my observation extends. I am also highly gratified 

 with its adaptation to the wants of the denomination in this department of litera- 

 ture. We have long needed just such a work a work not only intrinsically val- 

 uable as a History, but written in a style sufficiently attractive to insure its being 

 read, not only by pastors, but by the members of our Church and friends of Mis- 

 sions, young and old. I am happy to be able to say, that within the circle of my 

 acquaintance, the History meets with general favor, and I sincerely hope that its 

 circulation may be greatly extended. I have already disposed of nearly four hun- 

 dred and fifty copies, and shall continue to interest myself in its circulation. 



[From Rev. E. Kincaid.] 



As I have labored more or less at all the stations in Burmah, not only at Rangoon 

 and Ava, but also in the Tenasserim and Arracan provinces, I could not but ad- 

 mire the singular accuracy with which all the leading facts of these Missions 

 are detailed in Prof. Gammell's History of American Baptist Missions. I have not 

 found a simile error of any importance. I hope our religious papers will not fail 

 to let. this work be known among the churches. It furnishes the information so 

 much needed. 



[From the Rev. J. Wade, of the Burman Mission.] 



Fo far ns I have examined Gammell's History. I can most cordially recommend 

 it to the public as being a very truthful and well written work. 



Availing myself of occasional opportunities to peruse it, I selected those chapters 

 which treat of the Missions with wliich I am personally acquainted, and was delight- 

 ed tf> fiivl nothing on which the reader might not rely as being substantially correct. 

 1 consider it an excellent work. 



{tS= A liberal discount made by the dozen or hundred copies to those who engage 

 in its circulation. 



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