religious law of,58;mullahs,212;Baha Ullah in,22,70,161,185,221;Bahais in,14,23,26,58,88note ,93,95,103,112,118,126note 2,135,139,140,154,161,192,213-216,259-260,273,274,283Persian-American Educational Society,154,202,273Phelps, Myron,26,32,33,50,88,95,112,158,160,164,174,179,195,209,213,226,244,249,260,275;"Life of Abbas Effendi,"153,173,289Pilgrimage,123-126 (see Shrines and Bahai-American-Pilgrims)Polygamy (see Woman, Babism, Bahaism)Pope, Epistle to,36,93,185note 2Potter, J. L.,101notePrayer,74,110,113,121,164Primal Will,41,89Prophecies,97,102,105,106,118Prophets,31,41,88,89,90,98Quarrel over succession,247-262Religious Assassinations,219-246 (see Assassinations)Remey, C. M.,27,35,36,37,39,40,50,51,56,63,64,71,77,78,84,85,87,96,114,118,128,138,140,143,160,174,180,203,261,276,280,288"Return,"rijat,95,96,110Rizwan,87,127,279Rosary,123,253Rosen, Baron,57,186,187Russia,57,173,187Satan denied,112Schools (see Education)Schuster, Morgan,170Sects, Moslem,19,20,91note ,208(see Persia—Religions of);Oriental in America,264,284Seven Valleys,37,113,115,152Shahs of Persia,21,73,133,134,136,137,186,192(see under names)Shedd, J. H.,28,217Shedd, W. A.,26,30,82,197,199,200,216Sheikhis,21,67,68,170,175,213Shiahs,19,20,49,51,53,67,189,191,197,210,236,239,259(see Sects)Shrines,123and note 3,125,126,213Sprague, Sydney,32,40,64,84,85,90,118,160,217,249,289Speer, R. E., "Missions and Modern History,"18,28,78,82,101,133,150,217,220,264Star of the West,14,51,56,93,116,128,154,202,273,284,285State, Bahaism and the,131-149Stenstrand, A. J.,185note 2,245note 1,268,269Subh-i-Azal,15,38,160,185,233,238,246,268;history of,22,23,43,167,197,205,221-228;polygamy,159;attempt to poison,224;attempt to murder,227;witness to murder of Azalis,229,235;successor to Bab,22,42,181,183,184and note 3,204,220;writings,74Sufis,68note ,78,175Suicide,112,239,240Sultan of Turkey,22,38,193-194,257,262Surat-ul-Haykal,37,117,152Surat-ul-Muluk,186,191Tabriz,21,44,91note ,105,123,155,189,198,234,259,274Tagiya (dissimulation),23,48,51,85,193,197-205,208Tajallayat,91Teheran,21,123,140,155,161,174,198,203,274Temples, Bahai,98,115,116,117,278-280Templeton, Mrs.,194,255note 2,256Tisdall, W. StC.,49Toleration,136,137,140;lack of,21,132,135,147,191,240,241,255,259(see Intolerance)Trinities,40note 3,260Traveller's Narrative,37,42,113,136,182,184note 2,186,189,190,204,265;its author Abdul Baha,159,178,183,226,245True, C.,94,124,283,289Turkey, Bahais in,27,76,135(see Bagdad, Adrianople, Acca)Universal language,59,70Universal religion,29,50-59Vatralsky, S. K.,133,208,220,266,267Wars of Babis,21,71,73,135;Baha starts to war,73;condemns war,67,70,71;Abdul Baha on war,74Wilberforce, Canon,84,197,281Woman, in Bahaism,151-175;education of,154(see Education);equality with man taught,151,272;note taught by Baha,152;position inferior under Bahaism,153,158,163,165,166note 1,176;woman Bahais in America,153,163,175,277;civil rights of,155-167;inheritance unequal,166;marriage:enjoined,155;with consent,156;child betrothals,157;bigamy allowed and practiced,158,164note 3;wives of Baha,160-162;Bahais favour plural marriage,159,164,165;intermarriage with negroes,168;divorce:loose law,165;causes of,166-167;alimony small,166;desertion,167;social rights,169;continues veiled,173;note receive men visitors,173,174and note 2;no political equality,175-176;no women in government,176;movement to ameliorate among Moslems,169-170,173and note 1 (see Kurrat-ul-Ayn)Writing of,288-289 (see Bab—Books, Bayan, Baha Ullah)Wylie, A. L.,84Yahya, Mirza (see Subh-i-Azal)Yahya, Sayid,44Zoroaster,31,107Zoroastrians,26,27,55,64,67,68,85,92,106,203PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICACONCERNING FOREIGN LANDSEDWARD WARREN CAPEN, Ph.D.Organizing Secretary of the Hartford School of MissionsSociological Progress in Mission Lands8vo, cloth, net $1.50.The material for this able sociological survey Dr. Capen gathered during a visitation of the missionary fields of the world. Dr. James Dennis says: "Dr. Capen's grasp of a very large and complex subject is adequate and well balanced."JEREMIAH ZIMMERMAN, D.D.The God Juggernaut and Hinduism in IndiaIllustrated, 8vo, cloth, net $1.50."A careful study of the religious rites and gods of Hinduism, based on its observation during a 5,000 mile journey in the East, Dr. Zimmerman writes entertainingly and instructively of the life of these millions of our fellow human-beings of whom we have known so little"—Syracuse Herald.RENA L. 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The author's data, inspired by men behind the scenes, shows how the extravagance and inefficiency of the Manchus brought about the ruin of their dynasty, and ushered in the first Republic of the East. There is, in addition, a closely-written and illuminating review of the social and political conditions which now obtain in the Flowery Kingdom.FOREIGN MISSIONSM. WILMA STUBBSHow Europe Was Won for ChristianityIllustrated. 12mo, cloth, net $1.50.The story of the first seventeen centuries of Christianity is here told in the lives of the great missionaries of the church beginning with St. Paul. So far as we are aware no single volume containing so complete a collection of the lives of these pioneers in missionary work has before been published. Miss Stubbs has done a very real and important service to the cause of missions in making the lives of these great men live for the inspiration of younger generations of to-day.R. FLETCHER MOORSHEAD, M.B., F.R.C.S.The Appeal of Medical Missions12mo, cloth, net $1.00.The author is Secretary of the Medical Mission Auxiliary of the British Baptist Mission Society and Baptist Zenana Mission. He gives a general survey of the main considerations upon which the Medical Mission enterprise is based, presenting a true conception of the need, value and importance of this great work in the spread of the Gospel. Dr. Moorshead knows his subject well and he gives a wealth of interesting facts regarding The Character and Purpose of Medical Missions—The Origin and Authority, Justification, Need, Value—The Practice of Medical Missions, Woman's Sphere in Them, Training for, Home Base, Failure, Appeal, etc.JAMES S. DENNIS, D. D.The Modern Call of Missions:Studies In Some of the Larger Aspects of a Great Enterprise. 8vo, cloth, net $1.50."This is a magnificent presentation of the call of missions, showing their great and sweeping influence on human life and social progress. It is a logical and searching study of the power of the Gospel as it goes into other lands and there meets the facts and elements that make up the life of the people. Dr. Dennis has had the personal experiences and knowledge which enable him to speak with authority. An exceedingly valuable contribution to the missionary literature of the day."—Herald and Presbyter.ARCHIBALD McLEANEpoch Makers of Modern MissionsIllustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.00.The author of "Where the Book Speaks," has given in these "College of Missions Lectures" a series of sketches of modern missionary leaders which for clearness, brevity, directness of style and inspirational value, have rarely been surpassed. Each characterization is truly "much in little," and the book is a distinct and most acceptable addition to missionary biography.ROBERT E. SPEER The Cole Lectures for 1911.Some Great Leaders in the World Movement12mo, cloth, net $1.25.Mr. Speer in his characteristic inspiring way has presented the key note of the lives of six of the World's greatest missionaries: Raymond Lull, the crusading spirit in missions; William Carey, the problems of the pioneer; Alexander Duff, Missions and Education; George Bowen, the ascetic ideal in missions; John Lawrence, politics and missions; and Charles G. Gordon, modern missionary knight-errancy.S. M. ZWEMER, F.R.G.S., and OthersIslam and Missions12mo, cloth, net $1.50.This volume presents the papers read at the Second Conference on Missions to Moslems, recently held in Lucknow, India. The contributors are all experts of large experience in such mission effort.VAN SOMMER, ANNIE, and OthersDaylight in the HaremA New Era for Moslem Women.In Press.Woman's work for Woman is nowhere more needed than on the part of Christian women for their sisters of Islam. It is a most difficult field of service, but this volume by authors long and practically interested in this important Christian ministry, demonstrates how effectually this work has opened and is being carried forward with promising results.ROBERT A. HUME, D. D.An Interpretation of India's Religious HistoryIntroduction by President King, LL.D. of Oberlin College12mo, cloth, net $1.25.The author of this careful, though popular, study, is eminently qualified to deal with the subject of his thoughtful volume. Equipped for this purpose through long residence in India and intimate study of India's religious history, what he says will be accepted as the estimate and interpretation of an authority.MARGARET E. BURTONThe Education of Women in ChinaIllustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.The author of this scholarly study of the Chinese woman and education is the daughter of Prof. Ernest E. Burton, of the University of Chicago.... 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GUERNSEYA Queen Esther Round RobinDecorated Paper, in Envelope, net 25c."It was a pretty conceit to have a disbanding mission circle keep up their mutual connection by writing a "round robin." It is just the thing for girls' mission bands."—S. S. Times.S. M. ZWEMER, F.R.G.S.Arabia: The Cradle of IslamStudies in the Geography, People and Politics of the Peninsula; with an account of Islam and Missionary Work.New Edition.Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, net $2.00.ANSTICE ABBOTTThe Stolen BridegroomAnd Other East Indian IdyllsIllustrated, 12mo, cloth, net 75c.The author has vividly portrayed some of the ways in which Christ enters the Hindu heart; Just the book to read in the auxiliary society or to bring into the reading club."—Mission Studies.Children's Missionary SeriesCloth, decorated, each, net 60c.New Volumes.Children of Persia.Mrs. Napier Malcolm.Children of Borneo.Edwin H. 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Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net 75c.The story of an actual trip up the Yang-tse river taken by three missionaries on the way to their stations. In breezy, easy-flowing narrative one of the three tells the very interesting story of their fifteen hundred mile journey. The book should be a very acceptable addition to missionary stories and side-light reading.ROBERT E. SPEERChristianity and the NationsThe Duff Lectures for 1910.8vo, cloth, net $2.00.Among the many notable volumes that have resulted from the well-known Duff foundation Lectureship this new work embodying the series given by Mr. Robert E. Speer in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, will rank among the most important. The general theme, "The Reflex Influence of Missions upon the Nations," suggests a large, important, and most interesting work. The name of the lecturer is sufficient guarantee of the method of treatment.HENRY H. JESSUPFifty-three Years in SyriaIntroduction by James S. Dennis. Two volumes, illustrated, 8vo, cloth, boxed, net $5.00.This autobiographical record of half a century's experience in the mission field of Syria, is rich in color, narrative and insight. It is also incidentally a history of the mission work for the period but told with a personal touch and from the innermost standpoint. It is a pioneer's story, and as such never lacks in interest.JULIUS RICHTERA History of Protestant Missions in the Near East8vo, cloth, net $2.50.A companion volume to "A History of Missions in India" by this great authority. The progress of the gospel is traced in Asia Minor, Persia, Arabia, Syria and Egypt. Non-sectarian in spirit and thoroughly comprehensive in scope. "It is truly a notable work and can be endorsed in unqualified terms."—John R. Mott.WILLIAM EDWARD GARDNERWinners of the World During Twenty CenturiesAdapted for Boys and Girls.A Story and a Study of Missionary Effort from the Time of Paul to the Present Day. Cloth, net 60c; paper, net 30c.Brief sketches of great missionaries in chronological order, extending down through Augustine and Boniface the apostles to England and Germany, Xavier in Japan, and Brainerd among the Indians, to Carey, Moffat and Livingstone and Missionaries of our own day. Intensely stimulating and suggestive.
religious law of,58;
mullahs,212;
Baha Ullah in,22,70,161,185,221;
Bahais in,14,23,26,58,88note ,93,95,103,112,118,126note 2,135,139,140,154,161,192,213-216,259-260,273,274,283
Persian-American Educational Society,154,202,273
Phelps, Myron,26,32,33,50,88,95,112,158,160,164,174,179,195,209,213,226,244,249,260,275;
"Life of Abbas Effendi,"153,173,289
Pilgrimage,123-126 (see Shrines and Bahai-American-Pilgrims)
Polygamy (see Woman, Babism, Bahaism)
Pope, Epistle to,36,93,185note 2
Potter, J. L.,101note
Prayer,74,110,113,121,164
Primal Will,41,89
Prophecies,97,102,105,106,118
Prophets,31,41,88,89,90,98
Quarrel over succession,247-262
Religious Assassinations,219-246 (see Assassinations)
Remey, C. M.,27,35,36,37,39,40,50,51,56,63,64,71,77,78,84,85,87,96,114,118,128,138,140,143,160,174,180,203,261,276,280,288
"Return,"rijat,95,96,110
Rizwan,87,127,279
Rosary,123,253
Rosen, Baron,57,186,187
Russia,57,173,187
Satan denied,112
Schools (see Education)
Schuster, Morgan,170
Sects, Moslem,19,20,91note ,208(see Persia—Religions of);
Oriental in America,264,284
Seven Valleys,37,113,115,152
Shahs of Persia,21,73,133,134,136,137,186,192(see under names)
Shedd, J. H.,28,217
Shedd, W. A.,26,30,82,197,199,200,216
Sheikhis,21,67,68,170,175,213
Shiahs,19,20,49,51,53,67,189,191,197,210,236,239,259
(see Sects)
Shrines,123and note 3,125,126,213
Sprague, Sydney,32,40,64,84,85,90,118,160,217,249,289
Speer, R. E., "Missions and Modern History,"18,28,78,82,101,133,150,217,220,264
Star of the West,14,51,56,93,116,128,154,202,273,284,285
State, Bahaism and the,131-149
Stenstrand, A. J.,185note 2,245note 1,268,269
Subh-i-Azal,15,38,160,185,233,238,246,268;
history of,22,23,43,167,197,205,221-228;
polygamy,159;
attempt to poison,224;
attempt to murder,227;
witness to murder of Azalis,229,235;
successor to Bab,22,42,181,183,184and note 3,204,220;
writings,74
Sufis,68note ,78,175
Suicide,112,239,240
Sultan of Turkey,22,38,193-194,257,262
Surat-ul-Haykal,37,117,152
Surat-ul-Muluk,186,191
Tabriz,21,44,91note ,105,123,155,189,198,234,259,274
Tagiya (dissimulation),23,48,51,85,193,197-205,208
Tajallayat,91
Teheran,21,123,140,155,161,174,198,203,274
Temples, Bahai,98,115,116,117,278-280
Templeton, Mrs.,194,255note 2,256
Tisdall, W. StC.,49
Toleration,136,137,140;
lack of,21,132,135,147,191,240,241,255,259(see Intolerance)
Trinities,40note 3,260
Traveller's Narrative,37,42,113,136,182,184note 2,186,189,190,204,265;
its author Abdul Baha,159,178,183,226,245
True, C.,94,124,283,289
Turkey, Bahais in,27,76,135(see Bagdad, Adrianople, Acca)
Universal language,59,70
Universal religion,29,50-59
Vatralsky, S. K.,133,208,220,266,267
Wars of Babis,21,71,73,135;
Baha starts to war,73;
condemns war,67,70,71;
Abdul Baha on war,74
Wilberforce, Canon,84,197,281
Woman, in Bahaism,151-175;
education of,154(see Education);
equality with man taught,151,272;
note taught by Baha,152;
position inferior under Bahaism,153,158,163,165,166note 1,176;
woman Bahais in America,153,163,175,277;
civil rights of,155-167;
inheritance unequal,166;
marriage:
enjoined,155;
with consent,156;
child betrothals,157;
bigamy allowed and practiced,158,164note 3;
wives of Baha,160-162;
Bahais favour plural marriage,159,164,165;
intermarriage with negroes,168;
divorce:
loose law,165;
causes of,166-167;
alimony small,166;
desertion,167;
social rights,169;
continues veiled,173;
note receive men visitors,173,174and note 2;
no political equality,175-176;
no women in government,176;
movement to ameliorate among Moslems,169-170,173and note 1 (see Kurrat-ul-Ayn)
Writing of,288-289 (see Bab—Books, Bayan, Baha Ullah)
Wylie, A. L.,84
Yahya, Mirza (see Subh-i-Azal)
Yahya, Sayid,44
Zoroaster,31,107
Zoroastrians,26,27,55,64,67,68,85,92,106,203
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The God Juggernaut and Hinduism in India
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How Europe Was Won for Christianity
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The story of the first seventeen centuries of Christianity is here told in the lives of the great missionaries of the church beginning with St. Paul. So far as we are aware no single volume containing so complete a collection of the lives of these pioneers in missionary work has before been published. Miss Stubbs has done a very real and important service to the cause of missions in making the lives of these great men live for the inspiration of younger generations of to-day.
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Epoch Makers of Modern Missions
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Some Great Leaders in the World Movement
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Daylight in the Harem
A New Era for Moslem Women.In Press.
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An Interpretation of India's Religious History
Introduction by President King, LL.D. of Oberlin College
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The Education of Women in China
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Human Progress Through Missions
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A Queen Esther Round Robin
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S. M. ZWEMER, F.R.G.S.
Arabia: The Cradle of Islam
Studies in the Geography, People and Politics of the Peninsula; with an account of Islam and Missionary Work.New Edition.Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, net $2.00.
ANSTICE ABBOTT
The Stolen Bridegroom
And Other East Indian Idylls
Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net 75c.
The author has vividly portrayed some of the ways in which Christ enters the Hindu heart; Just the book to read in the auxiliary society or to bring into the reading club."—Mission Studies.
Children's Missionary Series
Cloth, decorated, each, net 60c.
New Volumes.
Children of Persia.Mrs. Napier Malcolm.Children of Borneo.Edwin H. Gomes.
Each volume is written by an authority on the countries represented as well as by a writer who knows how to tell a story that will both entertain and instruct children.
MISSIONARY
JAMES S. DENNIS, D.D.
The Modern Call of Missions:
Studies In Some of the Larger Aspects of a Great Enterprise. 8vo, cloth, net $1.50.
Doctor Dennis has brought together in this, his latest volume on Foreign Missions, eighteen very suggestive and informing studies. The author might very properly be called the Dean of the School of the Philosophy of Modern Missions. He is both keenly analytical as well as broad in his outlook. This intensity and assurance can hardly fail to deeply impress and influence the reader. It is preeminently a dynamic book.
MISS MINNA G. COWAN
The Education of the Women of India
Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.
The subject is treated historically, philosophically and suggestively. The contributions made by the government, the East Indians themselves and the missionaries, to solving the educational problems of the country are clearly shown. The book is an important and suggestive addition to the literature of education in foreign lands, being a worthy companion volume to Miss Burton's "The Education of Women in China."
ARCHIBALD McLEAN
Epoch Makers of Modern Missions
Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.00.
The author of "Where the Book Speaks," has given in these "College of Missions Lectures" a series of sketches of modern missionary leaders which for clearness, brevity, directness of style and inspirational value, have rarely been surpassed. Each characterization is truly "much in little," and the book is a distinct and most acceptable addition to missionary biography.
REV. W. MUNN
Three Men on a Chinese Houseboat
The Story of a River Voyage Told for Young Folks. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net 75c.
The story of an actual trip up the Yang-tse river taken by three missionaries on the way to their stations. In breezy, easy-flowing narrative one of the three tells the very interesting story of their fifteen hundred mile journey. The book should be a very acceptable addition to missionary stories and side-light reading.
ROBERT E. SPEER
Christianity and the Nations
The Duff Lectures for 1910.
8vo, cloth, net $2.00.
Among the many notable volumes that have resulted from the well-known Duff foundation Lectureship this new work embodying the series given by Mr. Robert E. Speer in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, will rank among the most important. The general theme, "The Reflex Influence of Missions upon the Nations," suggests a large, important, and most interesting work. The name of the lecturer is sufficient guarantee of the method of treatment.
HENRY H. JESSUP
Fifty-three Years in Syria
Introduction by James S. Dennis. Two volumes, illustrated, 8vo, cloth, boxed, net $5.00.
This autobiographical record of half a century's experience in the mission field of Syria, is rich in color, narrative and insight. It is also incidentally a history of the mission work for the period but told with a personal touch and from the innermost standpoint. It is a pioneer's story, and as such never lacks in interest.
JULIUS RICHTER
A History of Protestant Missions in the Near East
8vo, cloth, net $2.50.
A companion volume to "A History of Missions in India" by this great authority. The progress of the gospel is traced in Asia Minor, Persia, Arabia, Syria and Egypt. Non-sectarian in spirit and thoroughly comprehensive in scope. "It is truly a notable work and can be endorsed in unqualified terms."—John R. Mott.
WILLIAM EDWARD GARDNER
Winners of the World During Twenty Centuries
Adapted for Boys and Girls.
A Story and a Study of Missionary Effort from the Time of Paul to the Present Day. Cloth, net 60c; paper, net 30c.
Brief sketches of great missionaries in chronological order, extending down through Augustine and Boniface the apostles to England and Germany, Xavier in Japan, and Brainerd among the Indians, to Carey, Moffat and Livingstone and Missionaries of our own day. Intensely stimulating and suggestive.