Excerpt from With Christ in Sailor Town: What the Seamen's Mission Is Doing <p>Sailors are in theory admired, but in practice forgotten. They are not, like the redcoats, quartered in all our large towns and familiar in all our streets. The very nature of their calling, their life made up of linked absences, puts them out of mind and except in a voy age, or at the alarm of naval war, we give little attention to them. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.