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This is an account of the beginnings of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society (B.C.M.S.) work in Burma. B.C.M.S. became Crosslinks in 1992. My thanks to Crosslinks and to Rev. A.T. Houghton’s family for their kind permission to place this book on-line, and to Redcliffe College for providing a copy to scan. This book is copyright…
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John Brown Myers [1844/45-1915] provides us with a brief biography of William Carey – “The Founder of Modern Missions”. The book includes chapters on Carey’s role as a translator, a philanthropist and a naturalist. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy to digitise. This book is in the public domain. John…
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Fernando Po (now called Bioko) is an island located off the coast of Cameroon in West Africa which form s the most northerly territory of the nation of Equatorial Guinea. Nathaniel Boocock’s book tells the story of mission work under taken there up to 1912 under the auspices of Primitive Methodist African Missions. My thanks…
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Sarah Hall married George Boardman in 1824, a week before departing for Burma as missionaries. George died in 1831 and Sarah married fellow missionary Adoniram Judson [1788-1850] three years later. Following her death in 1844 Judson returned to the US where he commissioned the novelist Emily Chubbock [1818-1854] (pen-name Fanny Forester) to write Sarah’s biography….