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Beach (HARLAN PAGE an American)

HARLAN PAGE, an American educator and missionary, born in South Orange, N. J., in 1854. He graduated from Yale University in 1878.

For several years he taught at Phillips Andover Academy and then engaged in work in China as a missionary, serving until 1890. From 1892 to 1895 he was in charge of the School for Christian Workers in Springfield, Mass., and from 1895 was educational secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. From 1906 he was professor of the theory and practice of missions at Yale University. He wrote much on missionary and other subjects. His works include "The Cross in the Land of the Trident" (1895); "India and Christian Opportunity" (1904); "World Statistics of Christian Missions" (1906); etc. He contributed articles to magazines on religious subjects.