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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

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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.

PAGE
I. ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION . . . . . . . . . . 7

II. COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST
IN FOREIGN MISSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

III. OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

IV. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL . . . . 20

V. MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD . . . . . . . . . . 22

VI. AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES . . . . . . . 25

VII. MILLS' SECOND TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

VIII. THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN
MISSIONARY SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

IX. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT,
VISITS AFRICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

X. THE LAST JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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.

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