First Fifty Years of the Sudan United Mission
This is the official history of the first half-century of the Sudan United Mission from its founding in 1904 by Karl Kumm and Lucy Guinness.
This work is still in copyright and is republished here by kind permission of Pioneers UK. You are allowed to use this book for free educational purposes, but not to republish it for profit without the express written permission of the copyright holder.
J. Lowry Maxwell, Half a Century of Grace. A Jubilee History of the Sudan United Mission. London: Sudan United Mission, [1954] Hbk. pp.331. [Click to visit the download page]
Contents
- The Call
- The Vision and the Need
- “To the Help of the Lord against the Mighty”
- The First Reinforcements
- Spreading Branches and Spreading Roots
- Doing the Work
- The Freed Slaves’ Home
- The First Inter-Mission Conference
- Planning for the African Church
- War Days With Brightening Prospects
- New Developments
- Deeper and Wider Yet
- Beginning in French Territory
- Towards an African Church
- Our Opportunities are our Embarrassments
- A Fresh Start in Training Helpers
- “And Then a Brook”
- Reaching out to Mohammedans
- Fellow-Stewards of the Mysteries
- The World War Years
- War Helps the Church to Find its Feet
- The Rising Tide of Church Life
- Fresh Expansion and Fresh Difficulties
- New Help and New Problems
- Difficulties and Developments
- The Look Round and the Look Ahead