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Robben Island, located in Table Bay, South Africa, was used from the 17th Century on as a prison, an animal quarantine station and, from 1845, a Leper Colony. In this book James Wescott Fish records his lifetime of service amongst the lepers there. My thanks to Redcliffe College for making a copy fo this public…
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The Rev Dr Johnson Thomaskutty, my friend at Serampore College, India, has asked me to publicise a significant new book on Chrtistian mission in India, which I am happy to do. Serampore Mission: Perspectives in Contexts Edited by Johnson Thomaskutty The Serampore College—one of the historical institutions in India, founded by the initiatives of William…
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George Borrow, a Norfolk man, served with the British and Foreign Bible Society. His first posting was to Russia in 1833, where he oversaw the printing of a Manchu New Testament and then to Portugal and Spain (1835-1840) as a colporteur. In his native Norfolk he spent much of his time among the Romanies, so…
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This is the standard biography of Robert Clark, the renowned pioneer Church Society Missionary to the “Panjab” (now Punjab). My thanks to the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation. Henry Martyn Clark [1857?-1916], Robert Clark of the Punjab. Pioneer and Missionary Statesman. London: Andrew Melrose,…