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During the 1800's interest in Christian foreign missions was established and flourished in Sweden. Several mission organisations were founded for the purpose of disseminating knowledge about the countries in which missionary activity was to be carried out. This was done in part to raise funding to support increased missionary activity and in part to recruit new candidates for the mission field. Missionary publications were one means of achieving this goal. An analysis of the content of the applications for admission to training school submitted by candidates for the mission field will reveal that the interest lying behind many such applications was sparked by reading a missionary publication. If, on the other hand, one studies only a single application with the aid of a method called Perspective Text Analysis this argument no longer appears to be tenable. Instead one gets a picture in which the applicantâs religious growth and change, through education for example, form the central concern of the application document under scrutiny. Reproduced with permission by the author (2013-06-23)