CERTIFICATE.

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setts.

THE UNDERSIGNED, having been requested by the Executive Committee of the Missionary Union to read, in manuscript, Professor Gammell's HISTORY OF AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONS, are happy in being able to state that, in our opinion, the work is well adapted to accomplish the important purposes for which it was written.

Such a history we think to be much needed, and worthy of being read by all. It exhibits gratifying evidence of research, fidelity and skill. It sets before the reader, in a lucid manner, facts that should never be forgotten. Some of them, in power to awaken attention and touch the heart, could scarcely be surpassed by fiction. Others are full of instruction, presenting the rich fruits of varied experience; or coming, in impressive tones of Christian love and admonition, from the graves of those who, in making known the way of salvation, have cheerfully laid down their lives in distant lands. And

DUP.EXCH. 27 MAR. 1901

DREW THEOL. SEM.