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History of the Church Missionary Society by Eugene Stock – 4 Vols

ByRob March 19, 2018March 19, 2018

Eugene Stock’s comprehensive History of the Church Missionary Society runs to 2,740 pages and 4 Volumes. My thanks to the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide for providing a set of these volumes to scan. These titles are in the pubic domain. Eugene Stock [1836-1928], The History of the Church Missionary Society. Its Environment, Its Men…

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Sketches of Children’s Lives in Northern Nigeria

ByRob September 22, 2017June 17, 2017

This little book was written to provide an insight into the work of the Church Missionary Society among children in Northern Nigeria. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy of the book to scan and to the Church Mission Society for their permission to place it on-line. A.M. Locke, The Stable…

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Thomas Birch Freeman, Son of an African

ByRob September 11, 2017May 6, 2017

Thomas Birch Freeman [1806-1890] was a English Wesleyan Missionary to the Gold Coast of West Africa (Modern Benin, Ghana, Toga and Western Nigeria). His father was African and his mother English. The Evangelical Dictionary of Christian Missions notes that: Freeman was instrumental in starting churches and schools throughout two great African kingdoms, the Ashanti and…

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New Frontiers for the Sudan Interior Mission in Africa

ByRob August 23, 2017May 1, 2017

C. Gordon Beacham of the Sudan Interior Mission wrote this as a text-book on African Missions. Remember that at the time of writing Sudan referred to a great swathe of Central Africa from Nigeria eastwards and not just to the modern country of that name. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a…

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Calabar and its Mission

ByRob May 24, 2017May 24, 2017

Calabar is located in south southern Nigeria and was notable first as a centre for the West African slave trade and later for Christian missionary activity. Hugh Goldie provides a history of the missionary work carried out there up to 1890. The copy of the book kindly provided by Redcliffe College for scanning has an…

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Pioneering for Christ in the Sudan – Johanna Veenstra

ByRob February 22, 2017November 16, 2016

Johanna Veenstra tells the story of her life of service in Africa. Note that Sudan at that time referred to huge tract of land stretching across the centre of Africa and not just the boundaries of the modern nation of that name. There are a number of unique photographs contained in this volume which I…