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Lucy Evangeline Guinness [1865-1906] wrote this book during the course of a three month tour to India with her father Henry Grattan Guinness [1835-1910]. Lucy went on to marry Karl Kumm [1874-1930] and the couple went on to found the Sudan United Mission (SUM) – now Pioneers UK. This article provides a helpful summary of…
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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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John Hunt [1811-1848] was a Methodist missionary to Fiji. Hunt arrived in Fiji with his wife in 1839… His main task with Bible translation; he completed the New Testament and had begun the work on translating the Old Testament before his untimely death from dysentery. He was a person of deep religious feeling whose beauty…
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John Smith [1790-1824] served with the London Missionary Society in Guyana (then British Guyana). In August 1823 a slave revolt broke out, and Smith, whose sympathies with the slaves were well known, was accused of aiding and assisting the rebellion. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. His sentence was remitted, but he died…