Excerpt from James Gilmour and John Horden: The Story of Their LivesThe accompanying pages are the result of an attempt to sketch the life of James Gilmour from the standpoint of his fellow workers in the North China mission field.The book is not an abridgment of any former work, but consists principally of the writer's personal reminiscences, and extracts from letters written by Mr. Gilmour to herself. And her husband. For other letters she is indebted to Dr. Roberts, for a time Gilmour' s colleague In the Mongolian Work. Some of the recollections of the Rev. G. Owen given at a memorial service held 111 Peking are also included.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.