A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

The biography follows Mills from family and youth through a college conversion that sparked lifelong zeal for foreign missions, tracing his organizing efforts, fundraising and advocacy, tours across emerging American frontiers distributing Bibles and preaching, involvement with Hawaiian mission contacts and African voyages, and his role in founding national Bible and missionary societies. It notes the hardships of travel, the eagerness of frontier communities for Scripture, and the practical strategies he promoted for urban evangelization and sustaining missionary enterprise.