This volume in Concordia Historical Institute's Monograph Series makes a historically significant work, originally published in German in 1913, by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod missionary and church planter Henry Nau available in English for the first time.

A Hundredfold Harvest describes the religious landscape of South India just before World War I and, according to the President of Concordia Seminary in Nagercoil, India, is one of the most important historical monographs for seminary students in India that has not yet been made available in English, the language used for all coursework at Concordia Seminary in Nagercoil.