To what purpose?
By: by Marshall Broomhall.
Publisher: China Inland Mission
Published: 1934
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Fischbacher, Emil, -- 1903-1933; Missionaries -- China -- Biography
First sentence: We have just had news, through a wireless message from England, that China has declared war on Japan.
Description: If this little book shall do something to impress the reader with the magnitude of the issues involved in evangelizing so vast and so remote a territory as Chinese Turkestan, the land for which Emil Fischbacher gave his life, its publication will be more than justified.
Notes: Map on end papers.
Table of contents: value: AN INTRODUCTION TO CHINA; value: IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN; value: THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL; value: A SCHOOL OF PATIENCE; value: CROSSING THE GOBI DESERT; value: CHINESE TURKESTAN; value: LAST LETTERS; value: FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH; value: TO WHAT PURPOSE?; value: EPILOGUE