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Today’s free book is a biography of Barclay Fowell Buxton, missionary to Japan with the Church Missionary Society in 1890. On his return to England in 1902 he became the first chairman of the Japan Evangelistic Band. Following this… [h]e was invited to carry out evangelistic and spiritual training programs in Australia, Egypt, Switzerland, Korea,…
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Barclay Fowell Buxton [1860-1946] was an Evangelical Anglican minister who played an important role in establishing missions to Japan, as well as in developing the missionary movement in the United Kingdom. After serving curacies in London and Cumberland, Buxton went to Japan in 1890 with the Church Missionary Society where he was joined by Paget…
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This is John Jackson’s record of his 7,000 mile tour (in about 1900) through India, China and Japan on behalf of the Mission to Lepers, now The Leprosy Mission. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this public domain book for digitisation. John Jackson [1853-1917], In Leper-Land. A Record of 7,000 Miles…
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In preparation for the 1938 Oxford Conference on Christian Missions, William Paton the Secretary of International Missionary Council, embarked on a tour of Asia and the Near East. This volume represents a summary of his tour and its findings. My thanks to the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide for providing a copy of this book…