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ROBERT ELLIOTT, an American missionary secretary, born in Huntingdon, Pa., in 1867. He graduated from Princeton University in 1889, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in the following year. In 1891 he was appointed secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and made tours in connection with this work in China, Persia, Korea, and Japan in 1896-7. In 1909 he visited South America, and in 1915 Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Siam. During the World War he was a member of the advisory committee on the religious and moral activities of the Army and Navy.
He wrote "Missions and Politics in Asia" (1898); "Missionary Principles and Practice" (1902); "Christianity and the Nations" (1910); "South American Problems" (1912); "Studies in the Gospel of John" (1915).