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

1. The Call
2. The Vision and the Need
3. “To the Help of the Lord against the Mighty”
4. The First Reinforcements
5. Spreading Branches and Spreading Roots
6. Doing the Work
7. The Freed Slaves’ Home
8. The First Inter-Mission Conference
9. Planning for the African Church
10. War Days With Brightening Prospects
11. New Developments
12. Deeper and Wider Yet
13. Beginning in French Territory
14. Towards an African Church
15. Our Opportunities are our Embarrassments
16. A Fresh Start in Training Helpers
17. “And Then a Brook”
18. Reaching out to Mohammedans
19. Fellow-Stewards of the Mysteries
20. The World War Years
21. War Helps the Church to Find its Feet
22. The Rising Tide of Church Life
23. Fresh Expansion and Fresh Difficulties
24. New Help and New Problems
25. Difficulties and Developments
26. The Look Round and the Look Ahead

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