Excerpt from A City of the Dawn There really is no reason why such a life should be dull - it has every element of travel, of risk, of adventure that can make life excit ing. Bishop Westcott once said, A man should be prepared to die for his profession, as in the case of the doctor or the soldier. A shopkeeper must not object if his profession is regarded with less respect, if he cannot die for it.' That is an obvious truth; and the life of the missionary has that first touch of honour and chivalry. Of course, all who go out to such countries run the same risk for different reasons, the soldier, the sailor, the official, the trader. But there is added to the life of the missionary a deeper interest still. Soldiers, sailors, and officials go out to keep order as unobtrusively as they can, but still they are there as conquerors. The traveller goes to pick up impressions, the trader to make money - their object is to bring some thing away. But the missionary goes to understand the heart and mind of the native, to love him if he can, to win his love and trust. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.