Smith, S. F. Missionary Sketches : A Concise History of the work of the American Baptist Missionary Union. Mission Rooms, Boston: W. G. Corthell, Publisher, 1879. First Edition. [11819]
Brown cloth decorated in blink & black, gilt titles to spine, some edge-wear, joints good, 7 x 4 3/4 inches. Church library stamp & signatures on the front end papers. 358 clean pp., date due slip at back. Good. Hardcover.
Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, no. S4778.
Twenty-two chapters that first appeared in "The Examiner and Chronicle," here collected into book form. Descriptions of the Baptist missions and missionary work in Burma - at Rangoon, Maulmain, Tavoy, Arracan, &c. and also in Assam, Siam, South China, Eastern China or Ningpo, Japan, Africa, France, Germany, Sweden, Greece, and Spain.
Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895) of the First Baptist Church of Newton, was a collaborator with Baron Stow in compiling The Psalmist: A New Collection of Hymns for the Use of Baptist Churches. A Harvard College and Andover Theological Seminary graduate, Smith was the pastor of several churches in New England during his ministry. As a hymn-writer, he is best known as the author of the lyrics for "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." He traveled extensively as the editorial secretary for the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was editor of the Baptist Missionary Magazine.
