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	CHAMBERLAIN, MRS. W.I. Fifty Years in Foreign Fields: China, Japan, India, Arabia. A History of Five Decades of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions Reformed Church in America New York, Woman's Board of Foreign Missions. 1925. Probably first edition. xv, 292pp, frontis portrait, more than thirty monochrome illustrations (includes many portraits of principals), folding map at end, 4-page index laid in. Tall 8vo/ 24.5cm. Cloth backed with printed paper label, colored heraldic seal in Dutch and Latin on front board, light wear, internally fine. A history of the first fifty years work of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions from 1875 to 1925. Mrs. W. I. Chamberlain (Mary Eleanor Anable Chamberlain) was closely associated with the Reformed Church. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1548] Book number: 003729 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	EDDY, SHERWOOD The New Era in Asia. Introduction by Dr. John R. Mott New York, Missionary Education Movement in the United States and Canada. 1913. xiv, 229, [iii] pp, 16 b/w photo illustrations, index, colored folding map ("Commercial Expansion of the non-Christian World"). 12mo/18.6cm. Semi-stiff printed brown wrappers, slightly chipped at extremities, internally clean, tight and very good. A general description of the changed situations in the governments and administrative systems of China, India, Japan, Korea and the Near East following a tour during 1912-1913 by the author and Dr. John R. Mott of the YMCA. George Sherwood Eddy (1871-1963) was Secretary of the Asian YMCA and later became a prominent evangelist, lecturer and writer. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 002602 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	SINGMASTER, ELSIE A Cloud of Witnesses Cambridge, Mass, Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions. (1930). 236pp, frontis portrait + 33 monochrome illustrations from photographs, index. 12mo/19cm. Blue cloth, spine ends rubbed, internally clean, tight and very good. A collection of narratives to illustrate the success of Christian missions worldwide, particularly the role of female missionaries, both Western and indigenous. The illustrations are almost entirely portraits of such women, accompanied by biographic material. Elsie Singmaster aka Mrs. Harold Lewars (1879-1958) was one of the most prolific American female writers during the first decades of the twentieth century. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 946] Book number: 003850 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WHITE, MRS. ALMA My Trip To the Orient Zarephath, N.J. Pillar of Fire [Church]. 1919. Second Edition. 220 + [iv] list pp, frontis portrait of author, text drawings, more than sixty illustrations (mostly photographs), Addendum by A.L. Wolfram. 12mo/19cm. Brown pictorial cloth gilt, slightly soiled, spine ends frayed, hinges starting, faint old damp stain at bottom of back pages, otherwise clean and good+. About the author's 1911 trip to Egypt and Palestine. Very definite views on the need for the Jews to re-populate Palestine, the passive role of Moslems and many other subjects. Alma Bridwell White (1862- ) was Founder and Bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church and Bible School as well as the Zarephath Bible Institute and the Zarephath Academy in Zarephath, New Jersey, part of the American Holiness Movement. She had originally organized it in Colorado as The Pentecostal Union connected with the Wesleyan Methodists. But her evangelical fervor brought opposition from Methodist officials and her church was renamed Pillar of Fire in 1917. It is now a worldwide institution. This is one of her many books. USD 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1806] Book number: 002332 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.

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	CHAMBERLAIN, MRS. W.I. Fifty Years in Foreign Fields: China, Japan, India, Arabia. A History of Five Decades of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions Reformed Church in America New York, Woman's Board of Foreign Missions. 1925. Probably first edition. xv, 292pp, frontis portrait, more than thirty monochrome illustrations (includes many portraits of principals), folding map at end, 4-page index laid in. Tall 8vo/ 24.5cm. Cloth backed with printed paper label, colored heraldic seal in Dutch and Latin on front board, light wear, internally fine. A history of the first fifty years work of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions from 1875 to 1925. Mrs. W. I. Chamberlain (Mary Eleanor Anable Chamberlain) was closely associated with the Reformed Church. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1548] Book number: 003729 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	EDDY, SHERWOOD The New Era in Asia. Introduction by Dr. John R. Mott New York, Missionary Education Movement in the United States and Canada. 1913. xiv, 229, [iii] pp, 16 b/w photo illustrations, index, colored folding map ("Commercial Expansion of the non-Christian World"). 12mo/18.6cm. Semi-stiff printed brown wrappers, slightly chipped at extremities, internally clean, tight and very good. A general description of the changed situations in the governments and administrative systems of China, India, Japan, Korea and the Near East following a tour during 1912-1913 by the author and Dr. John R. Mott of the YMCA. George Sherwood Eddy (1871-1963) was Secretary of the Asian YMCA and later became a prominent evangelist, lecturer and writer. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 002602 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	SINGMASTER, ELSIE A Cloud of Witnesses Cambridge, Mass, Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions. (1930). 236pp, frontis portrait + 33 monochrome illustrations from photographs, index. 12mo/19cm. Blue cloth, spine ends rubbed, internally clean, tight and very good. A collection of narratives to illustrate the success of Christian missions worldwide, particularly the role of female missionaries, both Western and indigenous. The illustrations are almost entirely portraits of such women, accompanied by biographic material. Elsie Singmaster aka Mrs. Harold Lewars (1879-1958) was one of the most prolific American female writers during the first decades of the twentieth century. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 946] Book number: 003850 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WHITE, MRS. ALMA My Trip To the Orient Zarephath, N.J. Pillar of Fire [Church]. 1919. Second Edition. 220 + [iv] list pp, frontis portrait of author, text drawings, more than sixty illustrations (mostly photographs), Addendum by A.L. Wolfram. 12mo/19cm. Brown pictorial cloth gilt, slightly soiled, spine ends frayed, hinges starting, faint old damp stain at bottom of back pages, otherwise clean and good+. About the author's 1911 trip to Egypt and Palestine. Very definite views on the need for the Jews to re-populate Palestine, the passive role of Moslems and many other subjects. Alma Bridwell White (1862- ) was Founder and Bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church and Bible School as well as the Zarephath Bible Institute and the Zarephath Academy in Zarephath, New Jersey, part of the American Holiness Movement. She had originally organized it in Colorado as The Pentecostal Union connected with the Wesleyan Methodists. But her evangelical fervor brought opposition from Methodist officials and her church was renamed Pillar of Fire in 1917. It is now a worldwide institution. This is one of her many books. USD 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1806] Book number: 002332 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.