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Excerpt from Following the Pioneers: A Story of American Baptist Mission Work in India and Burma There's a legion that never was listed, That carries no colors nor crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. The unlisted legion of Christian missionaries and their followers in India have left a trail of light along which the mighty highways of a Christian civilization are being built. Their imperishable records are written in the transformed lives of India's people. India, the cradle of the human family, is a land of origins, of great race movements, of pagan faiths, and of missionary triumphs. It is a veritable wonderland of human interest. In the recital of history's record, noth ing stands out more luminously than the long disclosure of God himself in the lives of his missionary messengers. India records the victories of Christian faith as does no other land. Following the Pioneers gives us a great amount of interesting and necessary information about India today. The book is written in terms of that same faith and optimism which actuated the pioneers. 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.