Excerpt from Twice Around the World

It is intended, first, for a host of missionary friends and friends of the missionary, to whom I am more indebted than I can say, and with whom I have been associated for nearly thirty years; and then for another and still greater host of those younger friends who are already beginning to fill their ranks, and who, in the new century close at hand, will learn to make it, more perfectly than this has been, a Century of Service.

In the frequent mention of the work done by our Mother Church of England in the Colonies of the Empire of Great Britain, we, with our new possessions in Cuba and Porto Rico, in the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, may read a prophecy of what is possible for us in future years, and feel a unity of pur pose and Of sympathy based upon deeper and firmer foundations than any other kind of anglo-american alliance can give. And, finally, if our own and most familiar Domestic Missionary field seems strangely to have been dropped from the record, it is only because that story is left for another day, when it is hoped great numbers of our Church people may read it, not from the printed page, but with their own eyes, upon the field itself.

The General Convention of October, 1901, and the Trien nial Meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Board Of Missions are appointed to be held in San Francisco. It may be that on the way to California and on the return journey many will stop all along the various lines. Of railroad to visit the places endeared to us by the lives and labors of our missionary leaders - Asheville and Duluth, North and South Dakota and Montana, Laramie and Boise and Spokane, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, New Mex ico and Arizona, Western Texas and Southern Florida, Salt Lake and Sacramento, perhaps even the far distant region of Alaska; while for some the privilege may be in store of Seeing for them selves as well that portion of the Foreign field and those latest lands over which the flag of the United States now floats, out and beyond the Golden Gate and across the wide, inviting waters of the Pacific. They will be the ones to mark the rapid changes every year is bringing, and to see the open door ready and waiting for all who choose to enterin; and that some, who go as guests to any of those far-away places, may be led to give to them their hearts and lives, and gladly find in them a new home and happy work for Christ, is my earnest wish and prayer, as it is the chief object and purpose of the sending out of this book upon its way.

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