The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926

The Unseen Heroes of the Global Missionary Movement

The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was a Protestant missionary recruiting organization. Launched in the late nineteenth century, it played an indispensable role in the creation of the modern missionary movement. While it was influenced by the optimism and expansiveness that characterized Americans at the turn of the century, it also mirrored the period's provincialism and ethnocentrism.

The Kingdom of Character provides a ...