TWICE AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE HOLY GHOST By Charles Henry Stalker
Impressions and Convictions of the Mission Field
Charles H. Stalker 1906
DEDICATION
To the millions, who sit in heathen darkness and worship idols of wood and stone, and who have never heard a song or sermon and do not know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent, this book is prayerfully dedicated by the author. Feb. 15, 1906
The First Tour
Divine Providences Previous to Sailing Leaving the Home Land Meetings and Experiences in England and Ireland Days in France Incidents on the Voyage to India Visiting Different Mission Stations in India Bound for China China -- The Field of Martyrs Wonderful Answer to Prayer in a Storm Nanking Leaving China Meetings in Japan Returning to America
The Second Tour
Leaving the Home Land En Route to Palestine Special Meetings in Ramallah Arrival at Bombay Divine Provision Marvelously Healed Storm at Sea Second Visit to China Japan in War Christmas in Japan Safe Arrival in the Home Land First Impressions of Palestine
First Impressions Of Palestine
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INTRODUCTION
Nothing can take the place of oral delivery. Public speaking or preaching carries a power, and produces impressions more vivid than can be made by anything written, and yet the press is one of the mightiest forces in Commercial, Political and Religious life.
A walk through our public libraries with their countless volumes makes an ordinary man feel that there are books enough, but to the increase of the demand for reading matter there seems to be no end.
Most of books have a short life. Many die in the hands of the author, others perish with the publisher, thousands of them who get on their feet, stand only a few months.
Put here is a book that should stand forever and bless multiplied thousands.
The contents of "Twice Around the World with the Holy Ghost" will never perish. It is not only descriptive but intensely spiritual. It deals not only with the habits of the nations, their degradation and misery, but with the only possible remedy.
It presents a startling picture of the situation abroad, but at the same time places emphasis upon the only possible means of changing the situation. If you read only parts of this book you will conclude that there is no hope for the heathen, but if you read it all you will learn the secret of lifting the fallen and saving the hopeless.
The Author has not only a wide knowledge of the World, but he has lived in solitary retirement with the presence of the Lord until he has a keen sense of things deeply spiritual. His judgment of the qualifications of the missionaries now on the field is well founded. His extensive knowledge of the needs of the field eminently qualifies him to say what kind of missionaries should be sent forth.
This book differs from almost all others in that it honors the Holy Ghost in all things, and at the same time magnifies the blood of Jesus Christ as the procuring cause of all our blessings.
It has been my happy privilege to know the Author all his life, and I unhesitatingly predict a wide circulation for this volume.
May this book take wings and fly all over the world.
May it not only reach the poor and humble at home, but may it go to palaces of the boulevards and avenues. Ten thousand blessings upon the Author and upon all that he is carrying upon his heart.
