Our Eastern Sisters And Their Missionary Helpers Classic Reprint

Author : Mrs. M. G. Benjamin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332363196
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Missionary Sisters written by Mrs. M. G. Benjamin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Missionary Sisters: A Memorial of Mrs. Seraphina Haynes Everett, and Mrs. Harriet Martha Hamlin, Late Missionaries of the an at Constantinople The memoir of Mrs. Everett was the work originally intended and commenced; but after this had been partly prepared, letters were received from several missionary friends in Constantinople, urging the writer to combine with it a memorial of Mrs. Hamlin. As these two ladies had been so closely associated in their missionary life and work, a biography of one would necessarily involve much of that of the other, and it was thought better to present them together, and from their united letters give a history of the Armenian Female Seminary in Constantinople through the years of their connection with it, than to make two separate volumes. The writer is not without fears that the friends of both ladies may be somewhat disappointed in the present arrangement, and regret the omission of some interesting portions of their correspondence; but she trusts they will consider the difficulty of compiling such a work in a way to meet the wishes of friends, and at the same time not be tedious to the general reader. She has felt often no little perplexity in selecting from the very full and rich materials in her hands; and if the main object had been to prepare an entertaining book, much more of personal incident and local description might have been introduced, which have been left out to make room for fuller details of the missionary work. It is sometimes objected to memoirs, that they are partial, setting forth all the virtues of their subjects, and keeping out of sight all their defects. As "there is no perfection here below," it is assumed that those good people whose lives are recorded for our imitation, must have had prominent faults as well as great excellences. 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.