CONTENTS

[PROLOGUE The Relay Race]
[Book One: THE PIONEERS]
[CHAPTER I The Hero of the Long Trail (St. Paul)]
[CHAPTER II The Men on the Shingle Beach (Wilfrid of Sussex)]
[CHAPTER III The Knight of a New Crusade (Raymond Lull)]
[CHAPTER IV Francis Cœur-de-Lion (St. Francis of Assisi)]
[Book Two: THE ISLAND ADVENTURERS]
[CHAPTER V The Adventurous Ship (The Duff)]
[CHAPTER VI The Island Beacon Fires (Papeiha)]
[CHAPTER VII The Daybreak Call (John Williams)]
[CHAPTER VIII Kapiolani, the Heroine of Hawaii (Kapiolani)]
[CHAPTER IX The Canoe of Adventure (Elikana)]
[CHAPTER X The Arrows of Santa Cruz (Patteson)]
[CHAPTER XI Five Knots in a Palm Leaf (Patteson)]
[CHAPTER XII The Boy of the Adventurous Heart (Chalmers)]
[CHAPTER XIII The Scout of Papua (Chalmers)]
[CHAPTER XIV A South Sea Samaritan (Ruatoka)]
[Book Three: THE PATHFINDERS OF THE PATHFINDERS OF AFRICA]
[CHAPTER XV The Man Who Would Go On (Livingstone)]
[CHAPTER XVI A Black Prince of Africa (Khama)]
[CHAPTER XVII The Knight of the Slave Girls (George Grenfell)]
[CHAPTER XVIII "A Man Who Can Turn His Hand to Anything" (Mackay)]
[CHAPTER XIX The Roadmaker (Mackay)]
[CHAPTER XX Fighting the Slave Trade (Mackay)]
[CHAPTER XXI The Black Apostle of the Lonely Lake (Shomolakae)]
[CHAPTER XXII The Woman Who Conquered Cannibals (Mary Slessor)]
[Book Four: HEROINES AND HEROES OF PLATEAU AND DESERT]
[CHAPTER XXIII Sons of the Desert (Abdallah and Sabat)]
[CHAPTER XXIV A Race Against Time (Henry Martyn)]
[CHAPTER XXV The Moses of the Assyrians (Dr. Shedd)]
[CHAPTER XXVI An American Nurse in the Great War (E.D. Cushman)]
[CHAPTER XXVII On the Desert Camel Trail (Archibald Forder)]
[CHAPTER XXVIII The Friend of the Arab (Archibald Forder)]

THE BOOK OF
MISSIONARY HEROES

PROLOGUE

THE RELAY-RACE

The shining blue waters of two wonderful gulfs were busy with fishing boats and little ships. The vessels came under their square sails and were driven by galley-slaves with great oars.