The Spiritual Conquest
of the
Southwest

by J.M. Dawson, D.D.

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This book tells about the missionary work which was performed in the western United States. It tells about evangelizing the Native American Indians. The book was published in 1927 by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee. The book measures 5 3/8 inches by 7 7/8 inches and contains 180 pages. The burnt orange cloth cover shows minor signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The edges of the cover have a small bump and the top right corner of the front cover has a small bump as well. The cover shows signs of light soiling. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this interesting old book is very good.

Title Page

Title Page - Verso

Excerpt - Foreword:
The story of the Christianization of the Southwest has never been told, save as the pen of the pioneer preacher and missionary wrote it into diaries, journals, occasional letters to newspapers and the records of the churches and mission boards, or as some one has tried to trace the history of a single denomination. To us this present day the complete story, even of so short a time as fifty years ago, is largely lost, for few of us have access to the files of the many religious papers that have at different times flourished in our Southland, or the records of district associations, of state conventions, and of home mission boards; fewer still the time to pore over them, and read in their yellowed pages the romance written there in the terse reports of the brave men who preached the gospel in the wilderness. For those pioneer missionaries did much, but wrote little. Their lives were lived under conditions that lent small encouragement to voluminous writing, and often the most epoch-making events receive but cursory notice at the time they occurred. In fact, they scarcely thought of the story they were making, and many a deed has had to await the perspective of time for its significance to be fully known…
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