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Excerpt from In Memoriam: The Reverend Henry Nitchie Cobb, D.D., Corresponding Secretary, Board of Foreign Missions, the Reformed Church in America, 1882-1910 Interest in the churches at home in the work abroad, and in his willing and most helpful identification with every movement which aimed at the enlightenment and enlistment of the constituency at home or the expansion of the work abroad. During Dr. Cobb's secretaryship the work in all our missions greatly advanced, the number of missionaries trebled and the receipts increased almost fourfold. It was during his incumbency that the Arabian Mission, which was organized in 1889, grew to be one of our strongest mis sions. He officially visited our missions in Asia in 1892, and again in 1904, receiving the warmest welcome from the missionaries, greatly endearing himself to the Oriental Christian constituency and by his valuable counsel greatly strengthening the efficiency of the work in every country which he visited. Hence the mourning for Dr. Cobb is not limited to us who were brothers to him in the homeland where he inspired and led the Church forward to in creasing effort and offerings for the Kingdom of Christ. He is mourned today in many lands - in Arabia, in India, in China and in Japan - mourned by the missionaries who loved and trusted him and by those brought out of heathenism who saw him years ago for a day or two, and who heard his encouraging words and received his blessing. An obituary sketch of such a man is not complete if the keynote of his life is not emphasized. Dr. Cobb was a man of great faith - faith in God and His great plans of mercy for a sin cursed world, provided in and through Jesus Christ, the Lord, and faith in the Church of Christ. He believed in the very center of his soul that He who lived and died for the world is yet to rule it, and that we are called to aid in bringing about that supremacy. With what unwavering confidence did he quote again and again in his reports and addresses the promises and commands of his Master, as if he felt that where the Master laid an injunction on his people He could be trusted to give the needed strength to obey it. His was the modern spirit of missions - the desire in love and loyalty to Christ to make Him known, to make His saving and uplifting power felt in all the earth. All who have heard his addresses on the oor of General Synod and elsewhere will remember the marvelous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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