Excerpt from The Lone Star: The History of the Telugu Mission of the American Baptist Missionary Union"The history of the Telugu Mission, " says Dr. Bright, of the "Examiner, " is interesting even to romance. That history should be told in every church and Sunday-school as an inspiration to greater hope and patience in all our work... Would not the prayerful consideration of so memorable and blessed a history of missionary triumphs, as is furnished by the Telugu Mission, be the highest possible incentive to renewed consecration and a further development of the grace of giving?" It is with some such hope as this that the writer has undertaken the task of furnishing a fuller history of the Mission than has yet been written, and thus afford its friends additional facilities for "the prayerful consideration" of God's wonder-working power among the Telugus.It was only after repeated efforts had been made to induce another, in all respects better qualified, to undertake this work, that the writer consented to do it. The only advantage he possesses over the one first selected is a long residence among the people and an active participation in the work he seeks to describe.In presenting this book to the friends of missions, the writer claims very little in the way of original authorship.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.