---
title: 'The First American Mission to Afghanistan'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Elwood Morris Wherry'
date: 1918-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'Missions Biography'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/wherry-1918-the-first-american-mission-to-afghanistan
---

# The First American Mission to Afghanistan

Report on American missionary efforts to Afghanistan, highlighting Isidor Löewenthal’s Pashtu New Testament translation, the influence of printed Christian literature, missionary hardships and his 1864 death.

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