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A collection of illustrated biographical sketches recounts the early lives and later careers of several Christian missionaries who worked in diverse regions around the world. Each chapter traces personal motivations and practical achievements—founding schools and hospitals, distributing scriptures, providing medical and industrial training, and engaging in exploration and social service—while describing hardships, cultural encounters, and problem-solving in the field. The foreword frames these accounts as examples of teaching, healing, and community uplift, and many chapters pair anecdote-driven narrative with descriptions of institutional and everyday work.

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Title: Under Many Flags

Author: Katharine Scherer Cronk

Elsie Singmaster

Release date: October 8, 2017 [eBook #55701]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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Courtesy of Ralph A. Felton

At the American University of Beirut, Syria

The schools and colleges founded by missionaries believe in an all-round education which includes athletics.


UNDER MANY
FLAGS

BY
KATHARINE SCHERER CRONK
AND
ELSIE SINGMASTER

NEW YORK
MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT
OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

COPYRIGHT 1921 BY
MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES AND CANADA