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Chapter II. the Home-Lands and the Islands · Part 3

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Glances at China.

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Pictures of Southern China.

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A Winter in North China.

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The Sister Martyrs of Ku Cheng.

Letters and a Memoir of Eleanor and Elizabeth Saunders, Massacred August 1st, 1895. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

China.

By Rev. J. T. Gracey, D.D. Seventh edition, revised. 16mo, paper, 15c.

Protestant Missions in China.

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James Gilmour, of Mongolia.

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James Gilmour and His Boys.

Being Letters to his Sons in England. With facsimiles of Letters, a Map and other Illustrations. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

Griffith John,

Founder of the Hankow Mission, Central China. By William Robson. Missionary Biography Series. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, 75c.

John Kenneth Mackenzie,

Medical Missionary to China. With the Story of the first Chinese Hospital. By Mrs. Mary I. Bryson. With portrait. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

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In the Tiger Jungle.

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Adoniram Judson.

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Once Hindu, now Christian.

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William Carey.

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William Carey.

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Alexander Duff.

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Reginald Heber,

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Heavenly Pearls Set in a Life.

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Persian Life and Customs.

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Justin Perkins,

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Women and the Gospel in Persia.

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Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar.

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Pioneering in New Guinea,

1877–1894. By James Chalmers. With a Map and 43 Illustrations from Original Sketches and Photographs. 8vo, cloth, $1.50.

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On the Indian Trail,

And Other Stories of Missionary Work among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians. By Egerton R. Young. Illustrated by J. E. Laughlin. 12mo, cloth, $1.00.

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Forty-two Years Among the Indians and Eskimos.

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Vikings of To-Day;

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Amid Greenland Snows;

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Kin-da-Shon’s Wife.

An Alaskan Story. By Mrs. Eugene S. Willard. Illustrated. Third edition. 8vo, cloth, $1.50.

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The Apostle to the North American Indians. By Jesse Page. Missionary Biography Series. Illustrated. Twelfth thousand. 12mo, cloth, 75c.

South America, the Neglected Continent.

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