OUR COUNTRY:

ITS POSSIBLE FUTURE AND ITS

PRESENT

CRISIS.

BY

REV. JOSIAH STRONG, D. D.,

GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE

FOR THE UNITED STATES, NEW YORK.

With an Introduction, by

PROF. AUSTIN PHELPS, D. D.

"We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another name for
Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine
Providence in behalf of the human race."-Emerson.

EIGHTY-FIFTH THOUSAND.

PUBLISHED BY

THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO., 9 BOND ST., NEW YORK.

FOR

THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

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Dec. 19,1940

LIBKANY

Prefatory Note.

THIS Volume was prepared for the American Home
Missionary Society by REV. JOSIAH STRONG, D.D., then its
representative for the work of Home Missions in Ohio.
As will be seen at a glance, its main purpose is to lay
before the intelligent Christian people of our country
facts and arguments showing the imperative need of
Home Missionary work for the evangelization of the
land, the encouragements to such effort, and the danger
of neglecting it.

Copies for perusal and distribution can be obtained
from the publishers, The Baker & Taylor Co., No. 9
Bond Street, New York. Fifty cents in cloth binding
or Twenty-five cents in paper.

Copyrighted by the

AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY,

1885.