Excerpt from Is Mission Study Worth While? The journalist, too, is dependent for success, among other things, upon a knowledge of the conditions of the peo ple and the national tendencies and ideals, not only of his own country, but of other countries as well. Not a few students are looking for ward more or less sanguinely toward politics, diplomacy or the consular serv ice as a life work. A study of the life of the immigrant, of the poor in the great cities, of the western pioneer, of the negro and the Indian, in his own ...
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Excerpt from Is Mission Study Worth While? The journalist, too, is dependent for success, among other things, upon a knowledge of the conditions of the peo ple and the national tendencies and ideals, not only of his own country, but of other countries as well. Not a few students are looking for ward more or less sanguinely toward politics, diplomacy or the consular serv ice as a life work. A study of the life of the immigrant, of the poor in the great cities, of the western pioneer, of the negro and the Indian, in his own land, and also of the great world-cur rents outside, of the ways of living andthinking of remote nations of the earth, will enter very materially into the preparation for such careers. A life in the world of finance and trade would receive a similarly useful contribution from such a study, since every mission field is a foreign market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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