Knowlton, M. J. The Foreign Missionary; His Field and Work [SIGNED]

Knowlton, M. J. The Foreign Missionary; His Field and Work [SIGNED]. Philadelphia: Bible and Publication Society, 1872. First Edition. [10122]

Faded & soiled maroon cloth, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches, spine rolled, information about the author in pencil on the tp, 228 pp., infrequent pencil markings, rear end papers with pencil notes, somewhat shaken with nothing detached. "Rev. M. J. Knowlton, Ningpo, China" in pencil on rfep, which we think is the author's signature. Fair. Hardcover.

K2046 in Starr, A Baptist Bibliography. Pp. [197]-228, "China As A Mission Field. A Premium Tract."

Miles Justin Knowlton (1825-1874), b. Wardsborough, Vermont; d. Ningpo, China. "A distinguished missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union...His college and theological studies were pursued at Madison University, Hamilton, N.Y., where he graduated in 1853...embarked for China. and arrived in June 1854, at Ningpo, where, with singular earnestness and marked success, he labored for nearly twenty years...Among the qualities which made him a model missionary were his remarkable singleness of purpose, his persistency in active labor, and his gentle bearing towards the people." - M'Clintock & Strong, The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (1880).