A Christmas Missionary Exercise; Illustrated with Scenes from our Foreign Mission Fields. New York: The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., 1894. First Edition. [7874]
Cloth spine, printed white card covers, oblong 7 3/4 x 5 inches. 24 unnumbered pp., including 12 b/w illustrations from photographs of missionary scenes; world map inside back cover. Pages clean, light soil visible to the white card covers. Very good. Hardcover.
WorldCat with 2 locations.
This book was presented as a Christmas program for Presbyterian churches to use in 1894. It has hymns, speaking pieces for children, Bible readings, a place for a Pastor or Sunday School Superintendent to add their sermon/thoughts, recitations, &c.
Illustrated from b/w photographs from such places as India, Siam, China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Africa, Chile, Persia, Syria, and Mexico. The scene from Persia is, "The Bloody Procession of Moharrem - Mohammedan Fanatics in Persia Gashing their Heads at their Annual Mourning for their Martyred Saints."
