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Written in 1884, this volume celebrates the Jubilee of the London City Mission, whose work continues to this day. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain volume available for digitisation. John Matthias Weylland [1823-1897], These Fifty Years, Being the Jubilee Volume of the London City Mission. London: S.W. Partridge…
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Mary Geraldine Guinness was the daughter Henry Grattan Guinness, the founder of both the Regions Beyond Missionary Union and the training College known today as Cliff College. She married Frederick Howard Taylor, son of the founder of the China Inland Mission, James Hudson Taylor. This biography of Geraldine Taylor is still in copyright and is…
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John Williams (27 June 1796 – 20 November 1839) served with the London Missionary Society in the South Pacific. In order to expand his work to the Samoa and the Society Islands he build a missionary Ship – The Messenger of Peace – at Rarotonga. Following his death at the hands of cannibals in the…
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This book is a compilation of eye-witness material put together quickly in the wake of the Boxer Uprising of 1899-1901 for the benefit of supporters in the West. This public domain title was kindly provided for digitisation by Redcliffe College. Stanley P. Smith [1861-1931], China From Within, or the Story of the Chinese Crisis, 2nd…