CHAPTER I—The Beginnings_The Story of Lutheran Missions

[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF A. H. FRANCKE.]

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The

Story of Lutheran Missions

ELSIE SINGMASTER

(Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars)

Published by

Co-operative Literature Committee Woman’s Missionary Societies

Lutheran Church

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By the

Co-operative Literature Committee Woman’s Missionary Societies

Lutheran Church

PRESS OF

SURVEY PUBLISHING CO.,

COLUMBIA, S. C.

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FOREWORD

For many years there has been both a need and a call for a book on

Lutheran missions, which could be used as a text book and also as a book

of reference. Mrs. Lewars has met this need and answered this call with

_The Story of Lutheran Missions_. It is fitting that this book should

make its appearance in the Quadricentennial Year of the Reformation and

that it should be the first book issued by the first Co-operative

Literature Committee of the Woman’s Missionary Societies of the Lutheran

Church, representing the General Synod, the General Council, and the

United Synod in the South.

The courage and devotion of our self-sacrificing missionary pioneers has

been little known even among Lutherans. Our hearts must be thrilled as

we read of the superb courage and the unselfish devotion of the brave

men and women who, surrounded by indifference were fired with

unquenchable missionary zeal to carrying the Word to the ends of the

earth.

“Through peril, toil and pain,” they blazed the way for Protestant

missions. May this study of the Reformation of the sixteenth century and

the subsequent efforts to carry the Word into all of the world help to

unite our Lutheran forces in a determined missionary purpose to hasten

the transformation of the twentieth century.

CO-OPERATIVE LITERATURE COMMITTEE:

MRS. E. C. CRONK, _Chairman_, Member from United Synod.

MISS SALLIE PROTZMAN, Member from General Synod.

MRS. CHAS. L. FRY, Member from General Council.

LITERATURE HEADQUARTERS FOR MISSIONARY SOCIETIES:

GENERAL SYNOD, 105 E. 21st St., Baltimore, Md.

GENERAL COUNCIL, 844 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

UNITED SYNOD, 1617 Sumter St., Columbia, S. C.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I—The Beginnings