Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from From Japan to Jerusalem
The plan adopted in the following pages has been to write a short Foreword on each main division of the journey and then to let the story speak for itself. To attempt anything like an account of Japan, China, India and the Near East would be an impertinence. But it is permissible to prepare the reader for the scenes to be visited and the conditions to be met, and that is all that has been attempted.
The journey was far from covering all the ground of the Society's Missions in the Far and Near East. Western China would have taken three months by itself. Several other important centres of c.m.s. Work in China as well as Japan had to be left out. India was seen only in a few of its principal cities. Persia and Turkish Arabia had to be passed by. One or two centres only in Palestine and Egypt could be visited. And if the simple story of' something attempted, something done is provocative, and suggestive, and even appetizing in the direction of more inquiry, whether from books or by personal visitation, it will have been well worth while to print.
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