[Gutenberg 16657] • The Book of Missionary Heroes

**Basil Mathew's excellent stories about several of the most famous and revered Christian missionaries form a lively and engaging history of missionary work.**

This book is written as a set of tales with characters from all around the world. Missionaries preaching the Christian doctrines are depicted in the midst of their adventures, convincing indiginous peoples of the one, true God. Dialogue and captivating descriptions of the local cultures confer a vibrant, vivid and captivating essence to the text.

This book is a colorful history of Christian missionary activities in far-flung places. The text is divided into four principle parts, each of which focus on a particular locale where missionary activity was frequent over the centuries.

We begin our journey by following the adventures of the earliest Christian missionaries, where the principles of conversion and spreading the holy word are set out. After this, the author sequentially brings us to the exotic, tropical paradises of the South Sea Islands in the Pacific, the vast and beautiful savannas of Africa, the desert plains of the Middle East and elsewhere.

A wonderfully flowing and passionate text, where creative description meets religious history, *The Book of Missionary Heroes* is a valuable addition to any library.