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Excerpt from Heroes of the Cross in America The purpose in these pages has been to portray the leading characteristics and most striking experiences of some of the pioneer Heroes of the Cross in America. These men, and the great army of workers associated with them, were instruments of great power, used by God to make America Christian. Each character represents a great section and a special, but typical, work. Brainerd represents missionary heroism in colonial days in New England; Peck, brave pioneer evangelism in Missouri and Illinois; Whitman, dauntless zeal in the service of the Master on the extreme frontier, in the vast Oregon country; Dyer, self-sacrificing itinerant effort in the wild mining camps of Colorado; Ward, early pastoral evangelistic and educational effort in the Dakotas. The aim has been to present the wide scope, the immense value, and the tremendous cost in self-sacrifice and hardship, of the evangelization of the nation. 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.