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    A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
    A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
    A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
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    A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

    By Elisabeth G. Stryker

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013

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      A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 - Elisabeth G. Stryker

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818, by

      Elisabeth G. Stryker

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      Title: A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

      [Samuel John Mills]

      Author: Elisabeth G. Stryker

      Release Date: September 19, 2009 [EBook #30026]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STORY OF ONE SHORT LIFE ***

      Produced by Ron Swanson

      MISSIONARY ANNALS.

      (A SERIES.)

      A STORY OF

      ONE SHORT LIFE,

      1783 to 1818.

      BY

      ELISABETH G. STRYKER.

      CHICAGO:

      WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST,

      Room 48, McCormick Block.

      COPYRIGHT, 1888,

      BY

      WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS

      OF THE NORTHWEST.

      CONTENTS.

      As I write, I have in my mind a row of intelligent boyish faces. Manly souls look through bright eyes. My heart responds to the beats of affection beneath jacket and cut-away.

      I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly graces are dawning. I feel the warmth of pure young hearts beginning to swell with generous desires.

      These are my real friends. Beyond them I see rows and rows of boys and girls whose sympathies and interest I would gladly claim.

      PREFACE.

      Those among us interested in the young people, the boys and girls of our Churches, somewhat realize the lack of material wherewith to stimulate and nourish these young workers. The apiarist studies the nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers that the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference in the bees. We have long watched our boys and girls, and either we do not care what they yield, or we are dull not to notice that what surrounds them and enters into their minds, is surely deciding their natures. White clover honey can only be made from white clover blossoms. What they read and what they may be induced to read concerns us as mission workers. Individual tastes make many by-paths in the field of literature, but the girls all enjoy the windings of romance, and the boys delight in the highway of adventure. But, they say or think, Missions, their history and progress are so stupid, they have no decent heroes and heroines. We like Robinson Crusoe, and Little Women, and the Arabian Nights! But do we not know that the stories of the lives of some of our missionaries, well told, may stand side by side, upon the book-shelves and in the hearts of our young people, with the pages of De Foe and Louise Alcott? Many a boy and girl, charmed by the life and fortune of some unreal, and oftentimes unworthy, hero, has attempted to make copy in his or her own life. Missionary lives are not lacking in the spirit, adventure and romance which are so fascinating. With these ideals in their minds, may we not expect followers of the Judsons, the Moffats, the Fiskes and the Rankins?

      The writer, who has humbly undertaken to re-tell an old tale,

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