The Book of Missionary Heroes

MP3 Audio CD. Basil Joseph Mathews is a writer born in 1879 and died in 1951. He wrote The Book of Missionary Heroes, Fellowship in Thought and Prayer, Forward Through the Ages, Young Islam on Trek, The World in which Jesus lived, Livingstone the Pathfinder, The Argonauts of Faith, The Riddle of Nearer Asia, and so much more.

The Book of Missionary Heroes covers a prologue, The Relay Race, Book I: The Pioneers, with four chapters, The Hero of the Long Trail (St. Paul), The Men of the Shingle Beach (Wilfrid of Sussex), The Knight of a New Crusade (Raymond Lull), and Francis Caeur-de-Lion (St. Francis of Assisi); Book II: The Island Adventurers, with ten chapters, The Adventurous Ship (The Duff), The Island Beacon Fires (Papeiha), The Daybreak Call (John Williams), Kapiolani, the Heroine of Hawaii (Kapiolani), The Canoe of Adventure (Elikana), The Arrows of Santa Cruz (Patteson), Five Knots in a Palm Leaf (Patteson), The Boy of the Adventurous Heart (Chalmers), The Scout of Papua (Chalmers), and A South Sea Samaritan (Ruatoka); Book III: The Pathfinders of Africa, with eight chapters, The Man who would go on (Livingstone), A Black Prince of Africa (Khama), The Knight of the Slave Girls (George Grenfell), ?A Man who can Turn his Hand to Anything? (Mackay), The Roadmaker (Mackay), Fighting the Slave Trade (Mackay), The Black Apostle of the Lonely Lake (Shomolakae), and The Woman who conquered Cannibals (Mary Slessor); Book IV: Heroines and Heroes of Plateau and Desert, with six chapters, Sons of the Desert (Abdallah and Sabat), A Race against Time (Henry Martyn), The Moses of the Assyrians (Dr. Shedd), An American Nurse in The Great War (E. D. Cushman), On the Desert Camel Trail (Archibald Forder), and The Friend of the Arab ( Archibald Forder).

The Book of Missionary Heroes is composed of short stories full of fun and adventures with a theme of religion and devotion.