---
title: 'The World’s Debt to the Missionary'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Elliott Speer'
date: 1909-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'Missions (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Acts 13'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/speer-1909-the-worlds-debt-to-the-missionary
---

# The World’s Debt to the Missionary

Argues that foreign missionaries opened the world’s geography and languages, advanced civilization, diplomacy, and moral reform, and remain a primary religious force for spreading Christ.

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