Robert Elliott Speer

Robert Elliott Speer (1867 – 1947) was an American religious leader and authority on missions.

He was born at Huntingdon, Pa., graduated from Phillips Academy in 1886 and from Princeton in 1889, and studied at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1890-91. In 1891 he was appointed secretary of the American Presbyterian Mission. He visited missions in Persia, India, China, Korea, and Japan in 1896-97, and in South America in 1909 and later made similar tours. Under his leadership the foreign missions of the Presbyterian church became remarkably successful. Besides various inspirational books, he published:
* "A Memorial of a True Life: Biography of H. M. Beaver" (1898)
* "Presbyterian Foreign Missions" (1901)
* "Missionary Principles and Practice" (1902)
* "A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin" (1903)
* "Missions and Modern History" (two volumes, 1904)
* "Christianity and the Nations" (1910)
* "The Light of the World" (1911)
* "South American Problems" (1812)
* "Studies of Missionary Leadership" (1914)
* "John's Gospel" (1915)

See also

*19th Century Protestant Missions in China
*List of Protestant missionaries in China
*Christianity in China
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References

*John F. Piper, "Robert E. Speer: Prophet of the American Church." Louisville, Geneva Press, 2000.

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