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Charles E. Taylor
Charles E. Taylor was a nineteenth-century American religious editor and biographer whose scholarly work documented the lives and legacies of Protestant missionaries during the era of American evangelical expansion. His compilation of Matthew Fontaine Maury's missionary correspondence and reminiscences exemplified the biographical methods employed by religious historians to preserve and promote the narratives of Christian service in the nineteenth century. Taylor's editorial work contributed to the broader Protestant literary culture that shaped American religious identity and missionary consciousness during the post-Civil War period.
From The Story of Yates the Missionary, as Told in His Letters and Reminiscences
p. 5 EaQROM the unpretentious rural homes of North Si Carolina have come forth hundreds of men | who, in almost every calling, have become eminent and useful. In truth, iz may be questioned whether any State of the Union has been the birthplace of a larger number of great men: though, to the general view, North Carolina’s fertility in greatness has been obscured by the fact that very many of her sons have made their careers elsewhere than in the State of their nativity. Why the State has been so prolific uf eminent men is not difficult to explain. The conditions of good _ancestry, simplicity of life, necessity_for_tabor, familiarity with nature, religious training, and freedom. from grosser temptations have all been met in thcusands of her old fashioned country homes. And, for the making of the hero of this true story, none of these were lacking. The Yates family…
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