Two attractive young people from small-town New England became the poster children of a cause that soon swept through the nation: Missions. It’s hard for us to imagine today that missionaries could have such an effect. But, as William Hutchison argued in his book Errand to the World, the fact was that these pioneers symbolized something vital to America’s identity since the days of the Puritans—a new beginning, an adventure in the wilderness, a calling to be a light to the world.
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