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Harold Rowdon notes that George Müller’s… …significance for world mission begins with his philanthropy. His Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad (SKI, 1834) was designed to support the “spread of the gospel” by raising money for schools for children and adults, distributing Scriptures and Christian literature, supporting missionaries “whose proceedings appear to be most…
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Today’s free book is a biography of Benjamin Broomhall and Amelia Hudson Broomhall. Benjamin Broomhall was a childhood friend of James Hudson Taylor. He married Taylor’s sister and became the general Secretary of the China Inland Mission. The public domain book was written by their son, Marshall Broomhall and this copy is held in Spurgeon’s…
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Today’s free book is the second edition of William Ward’s Memoirs. This public domain title was digitised using the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library. William Ward [1769-1823], Memoirs of the Life of the Rev William Ward, Late Baptist Missionary in India; containing a few of his Early Poetical Productions and a Monody of his…
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Anna Martin met and married the German missionary David Hinderer in 1852, while he was in England on furlough from his work in what is modern-day Nigeria. The Hinderers went to Yorubaland in 1856, opening work in Ibadan. Though their reception was cordial, the Christian response was not spectacular. The small church that emerged, however,…