COMPLETE 1926 YEAR SET (12 ISSUES)

"The Spirit of Missions" Magazine • Volume XCI

A highly collectible, complete 12-month calendar year run of "The Spirit of Missions" from 1926, published by The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. This unique photos & historical set, and global cultural dispatches that are unavailable anywhere else online.


📦 Item Specifications

  • Format: Loose, unbound individual monthly issues (highly preferred by collectors to preserve individual front cover art).
  • Year / Volume: Full Year 1926 (Volume XCI, Numbers 1 through 12).
  • Publisher: The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York.
  • Size: Approx. 6.75" x 9.5" each.
  • Content: Hundreds of global photo layouts, historical texts, also 8 Pages of Photos in Center,  vintage advertising sections.

🖼️ 12-Month Front Cover & Highlight Guide

(Use this index to verify your issues or find specific regional features inside this set)

• JANUARY: Features a historic "The Nativity" painting of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus. Inside details regional missions. "Drought in Changsha forerunner of Famine" (Photos Illustrated) by Frederick C. Brown, St. Luke's Hospital Tokyo Japan,  Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, Iraq, John W. Wood, Montana, 
• FEBRUARY: Striking portrait of two young Chinese/Asian children in thick winter dress, promoting the Lenten offering. Includes Changsha famine updates, Republic of Dominica, China Jardine, Morton Y. T. Chu, Gaza Palestine, .
• MARCH: Rare early Aviation Photo of Bishop Harry R. Carson and his pilot standing with an open-cockpit airplane. Church Reports and Charts, Jerusalem Rennie MacInnes, St. Luke's Yokyo, China by Daniel Trumbull Huntington, Bethlehem Holy Fire, Mail Plane Nenana Alaska, Haiti, Panama, Cuba
• APRIL: Bold graphic cover depicting "The Blue Cross Banner" flag, featuring Middle Eastern updates and a detailed photo essay on Holy Week in Jerusalem, Alaska by Amelia H. Hill, Liberia by Margaretta Ridgely, St. Margaret's School Toyko by Gertrude Heywood, Idaho by Susan L. Sprague, Tragedies of China by Theodora L. Paine, Philippine Mountains by John W. Wood, Mexico City Hooker School by Myrtle E. FalkNavajoes by Anne E. Cady, Porto Rico by Florence L. Everett, Honolulu by Hilda Van Deerlin, Virginia Mountains by Madel R. Mansfield, St. Agnes Kyoto Janan by Hallie R. Williams, Chinese Nurses by M. Geraldine Cabot, Cuba by Sarah W. Ashhurst, 
• MAY: Beautiful line-art illustration of a traditional pulled rickshaw in East Asia. Contains key historical notes on the fading American frontier.Woman's Auxillary by Grace lindley, Patriotism in China by Daniel Trumbull Huntington, Cleansing LEPERS in Kusatsu Japan, Silent Partner of China Mission by A. Archibald Bullock, Assyrian Mission by George Lamsa, Japan by Marietta Ambler, 
• JUNE: Features the decorative historic "Seal of the S.P.G." commemorating early maritime missionary work. History of Church in Connecticut by Barton Mansfield, St. George's Church Flushing New York by Lewis B. Franklin, Fighting Line on the Fading Frontier by William McM. Brown, Allegheny Mountains by Maria P. Williams, Kyoto Bishop Nichols by j. Armistead Welbourn, Mexico,
• JULY: Tropical palm trees overlooking a harbor, highlighting the "Our Brazil Mission" focus. Southern Brazil by Lucien Lee Kinsolving, Southern Cross School at Porto Alegre Brazil, Shanghai  St. Luke's Hospital by Maurice Votaw, Jamaica Long Island by Horatio Oliver Ladd, Twelve Hundred Brothers by Charles L. Pardee, Chrch Army of England in Washington, Philippine Girls Abandoned by American Fathers by Elisabeth W. Colladay, South Dakota by G. I. Baldwin,
• AUGUST:  Ojibway Indians Convocation at Cass Lake, Minnesota, and territorial updates from Anvik, Nenana, Alaska, Cuba, Ichang, Wrangell, Sisters of the Transfiguration Working in Wuhu China by Ruth Magdalene (Her firsthand accounts of missionary life,  titled "Love and True Light in China". These articles detailed her choir instruction, the singing of hymns and the Lord's Prayer, and daily life in the Wuhu mission. ) Santa Maria Brazil With Airplane Flying by Church Tower, 
• SEPTEMBER: Uncut pages, Mountain work in the Philippines, medical missionary Fort Yukon, Alaska, Anking China,  Liberia, Hope Indian School Springfield South Dakota by Helen H. Elliott, Complete Bible in Braille by Ada Loaring Clark
• OCTOBER: "Thirty Days in Brazil" by John W. Wood, capturing deep South American cultural travel narratives, St. Lioba School Wuhu, Savannah Georgia, Dakota Indians by Edwin B. Woodruff, Nanking China by L. B. Ridgely, Hostel for Girls in Tokyo by Louisa H. Boyd, 
• NOVEMBER: Focus cover launching "The Call to the Bishops' Crusade" to global dioceses during wartime re-structuring, The War in China Siege of Wuchang, by John W. Wood & Arthur M. Sherman, St. Agnes Miami Hurricane, Mohawk Valley by wolcott Webster Ellsworth, Shasi China by Leighton T. Y. Yang, Iolani School Honolulu, Bahlomah Liberia,   
• DECEMBER: Holiday issue featuring "A Christmas Word" , rare print transcripts from the historic International Conference on the Christian Mission in Africa, Siege of Wuchang by Paul A. Wakefield, Stephen's Village Alaska, 

🔍 Seller Condition Notes

All 12 issues are intact, complete, and display crisp graphics. Covers are still securely attached to their bindings unless otherwise photographed. Expect typical vintage paper aging, light spine wear, and minor edge bumps consistent with authentic 100-year-old paper ephemera. Please review our photos.