SHERBRO MISSION. 
CHAPTER I. 
Origin of the Mission.. 
It has ever been the hope of Christians that 
the whole world will be subdued by the gospel. 
They have always held that the prophecies relat- 
ing to Jesus Christ warrant the belief that he will 
at some period become the Lord of the whole 
earth, in the sense of causing the whole world to 
trust in him as the only Savior from sin. This 
conviction has so moved the hearts of God’s peo- 
ple during the last half century, that they have 
projected missions for the conversion of the hea- 
then in Arabia, Syria, Turkey, India, China, Ja- 
pan, Australia, Madagascar, Greenland, Africa, 
l^orth America, South America, and in scores of 
the lands of the Pacific Ocean. 
Among the eflbrts recently put forth may be 
mentioned the first foreign mission undertaken 
