William Pierce on the Claims of Foreign Missions

William Pierce [1853-1928] offers some encouraging observations on missions on the occasion of the Centenary of the London Missionary Society. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of the book for scanning. This title is in the public domain. William Pierce [1853-1928], The Dominion of Christ. The Claims of Foreign Missions in the…

A.T. Pierson’s The Crisis of Missions or The Voice Out of the Cloud

Walter Elwell notes that Arthur T. Pierson [1837-1911] was “[h]ailed as the greatest populizer of missions of his age and one who revolutionised missionary literature…” [Evangelical Dictionary fo World Missions, p.756]. In this volume he summarises the history of missions, outlines the problems facing the missionary enterprise in the 1880s and suggests a solution. My…