Life and Letters of Edward Bickersteth: Bishop of South Tokyo (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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TO write a biography is an attempt to prolong and extend a personal influence. After my brother's death in August 1897, a desire was expressed not only in England, but also in Delhi and in Japan, that some authentic account Should be written of the work which he was called of God to do, first in the East and afterwards in the Far East.

At the request of Mrs. Edward Bickersteth, my sister in-law, I undertook to write this biography. I had hoped to complete the work within a year, but I could not fore See that the increase of population in the parish of Lewis ham, rapid for many years past, would have developed during the last two years at a pace in excess of the growth of any other part of the metropolitan area. This has made it almost impossible to give continuous thought or study to the Life, except during absence from home.

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