The workers are few
Subtitle: reflections upon vocation to the foreign missions
By: translated from the Italian of Rev. Paolo Manna, M. AP., by Rev. Joseph F. McGlinchey, D.D.
Contributors: McGlinchey, Joseph F. 1882-1959.
Edition: 4th ed., rev.
Publisher: Society for the propagation of the faith
Published: 1919
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Missions.; Missions.; Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction 11; title: I. The Mission op the Church and the Apostolate 14; title: II. Present Condition of the Apostolate 21; title: III. Number and Condition of Those Outside The Church 26; title: IV. Problem of the Conversion of the Heathen 33; title: V. The Apostolate To-day 42; title: VI. The Scarcity of Workers 51; title: VII. Invitations from Across The Sea 58; title: VIII. Vocation (1) (2) (3) 71; title: IX. The Difficulties 93; title: X. Our Native Land 99; title: XI. Climate 106; title: XII. Personal Deficiencies; New Languages; Privations 117; title: XIII. Our Parents 128; title: XIV. Good Priests are Needed at Home 145; title: XV. What does the Missionary accomplish? 158; title: XVI. Excellence of the Apostolate 169; title: XVII. The Missionary 178; title: XVIII. The Necessity of Prayer 188; title: XIX. We Can All Be Missionaries 200; title: XX. A Final Appeal 211; title: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Ordination of Four Native Chinese Priests by Rt. Rev. Jean M. Merel, D.D., at Canton Frontispiece; title: Facing Page; title: A First Communion Day in Alaska 17; title: Cathedral, Uganda, British East Africa 30; title: Typical Mission in Papua, Oceania 45; title: Father Aelen of Nellore, India, and his Altar Boys 61; title: Rescued from Unnatural Death by Sisters 89; title: Dinner Time at St. Vincent's Orphanage, Ning-Po, China 104; title: Christian Family and their Home at Madras, India 124; title: After Sunday School at Rua Suva, Solomon Islands 135; title: The Rt. Rev. Henri Maquet, S. J., Vicar Apostolic of S. E. Chihli, China, and Native Secular Priests 150; title: Family of Native Converts, Tonga Islands Oceania 163; title: Molokai Lepers with Brother Joseph Dutton a Civil War Veteran 176; title: Christian Burial at Sendai, Japan. Rt. Rev. Alexander Berlioz officiating 183; title: As the Twig is Bent the Tree is Inclined 203