Baptist Mission to the Congo

John Myers brings up to date the story of the work of the Baptist Mission to the Congo, building on the account of Joseph Tritton using official BMS records. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy of this book to scan. This title is in the public domain.

John Brown Myers [1844/45-1915], Congo For Christ. The Story of the Congo Mission, new edn. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., [1905]. Hbk. pp.190. [Click to download complete book in PDF]

Contents

• Preface
• Preface to the Third Edition

1. The Country, People, Language and Climate
2. How the Congo Mission Began
3. Early Difficulties Overcome
4. Ingathering of the First-Fruits
5. The Work Amongst the Congo Boys and Girls
6. Literary Labours
7. The Services of the Mission to Civilisation and Philanthropy
8. The Native Christian Churches
9. The Native Christian Churches (Continued)
10. The Evangelistic Efforts of the Native Christian Churches
11. The Death Roll and How to Regards it
12. The Future of the Congo Mission
13. Other Missions in the Congo
14. Changes and Progress in the Lower Congo
15. Developments on the Upper Congo River

Preface

Numerous inquiries have been made for’ a concise history of the Congo Mission, brought up to date: With the view of meeting this demand the present volume has been written. The late esteemed Treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society, Mr. Joseph Tritton, published “The Rise and Progress of the Congo Mission” in 1885, which. publication has for some time been out of print, and during the last ten years the Missions has greatly developed. Considerable information is also to be found in the Memoir of Thomas J. Camber; appearing in this. Series, but that work· is necessarily restricted by its biographical character. [Continue reading]