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This is a book about children in Africa written for young people in the United Kingdom. Its intention as to inform them about how African children live in order to increase support for missionary work among them. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this book to scan. The 8 plates are…
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This anonymous biography was published the year after David Livingstone’s death. It was intended to provide a condensed account of his life for young people and those unfamiliar with the Newspaper accounts and those published by the National Geographic Society. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy of this book to…
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Rather than produce the standard report of proceedings for the 1926 Missions Conference in Le Zoute, Belgium, Edwin Smith was asked to write his own summary. In doing so the organisers hoped that the resulting work would be more widely read than a dry record of the facts. My thanks to Cambridge Centre for Christianity…
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Karl Wilhelm Kumm [1874-1930] and Lucy Evangeline [Guinness] [1865-1906] were founders …of the Sudan United Mission (SUM) Kumm, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, felt called to missionary work among Muslims. He was serving with the North Africa Mission in Egypt when, in 1899, he met Henry Grattan Guinness, the celebrated evangelist, and his daughter, Lucy. Lucy…