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It is not my purpose to present a theory of missions,but simply to give a clear and consecutive story of myfather’s life. I have been impelled to do this by the desirethat his memory should be cherished in the minds of therising generation. Dr. Wayland’s noble and comprehensiveMemoir is now out of print, and it has seemed