About the Book These sketches have been written from time to time during a period of eight years and some of them have been published in various papers and rewritten for this volume. They are written especially for the young people in our Scandinavian Lutheran Churches, and not only for those young in years, but for everybody with a young heart. The aim has been to bring a missionary's daily life and labors as well as the people among whom he works a little closer to the friends in the home-lands and, if possible, also to kindle a little more interest in the greatest of all causes.
About the Author Mathew A Pederson (1869-1937), the author of these sketches is not laboring under the Illusion that this book has been looked for and expected for a long time, and that it now, at last, comes to fill a long felt want. The world has gotten along without any Sketches from Sanitalism and would likely manage to plod along to the end of time without even missing them.
Foreword The author of these sketches is not laboring under the illusion that this book has been looked for and expected for a long time, and that it now, at last, comes to fill a "long felt want." The world has gotten along so far without any "Sketch- es from Santalistan" and would likely manage to plod along to the end of time without even missing them. He has written them because he liked to write them.
These sketches have been written from time to time during a period of eight years and some of them have been published in various papers and rewritten for this volume. They are written especially for the young people in our Scandinavian Lutheran Churches, and not only for those young in years, but for everybody with a young heart.
The aim has been to bring a missionary's daily life and labors as well as the people among whom he works a little closer to the friends in the home-lands and, if possible, also to kindle a little more interest in the greatest of all causes, Missions.
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