Delivered at Union Theological Seminary in 1891 by the secretary of the Presbyterian foreign missions board, these lectures survey the development of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and other Asian faiths, and how the early Church and modern missionaries met rival religions. Ellinwood writes as a Christian apologist who calls them false religions, though he urges students to understand them.
A revealing document of how American missions saw world religions in the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.