History of the Church Missionary Society by Eugene Stock – 4 Vols

Eugene Stock’s comprehensive History of the Church Missionary Society runs to 2,740 pages and 4 Volumes. My thanks to the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide for providing a set of these volumes to scan. These titles are in the pubic domain.

Eugene Stock [1836-1928], The History of the Church Missionary Society. Its Environment, Its Men and Its Work, 4 Vols. London: Church Missionary Society, 1899-1916. Hbk. pp.504 + 659 + 912 + 665. [Click to visit the download page for this set]

Table of Contents, Volumes 1-3

• Preface
• Author’s Preface
• Outline of the Work

1. The Great Commission
2. Missions Before the Reformation
3. Missions After the Reformation
4. The Eighteenth Century and the Evangelical Revival
5. Africa and the East – Waiting
6. The Missionary Awakening
7. The New Society and its Early Struggles
8. The First Missionaries
9. Africa and India: Struggle and Victory
10. Forward Steps
11. Rousing the Country: The Associations
12. C.M.S. and Other Societies
13. Sierra Leone: The White Man’s Grave; The Black Man’s Life
14. The Finished Course
15. India: Entering the Opened Door
16. Insular Missions: New Zealand, Ceylon, West India, Malta
17. The Eastern Churches: Reports for their Revival
18. The Outlook After Twenty-Five Years
19. The Personnel of the Period
20. The Environment of the Period
21. India: Changes and Development
22. India: Progress of the Missions
23. The Negro on Both SIdes the Atlantic, Enslaved and Free
24. Greek, Copt, Abyssinian, Zulu, Maori, Australian, Cree
25. Henry Venn; And Survey of Men and Things
26. The Society and the Church
27. The Colonial and Missionary Episcopate
28. New Zealand: The Bishop, the Colony, and the Mission
29. New Enterprises in Africa: Niger Expedition, Yoruba Mission East Coast
30. The Opening of China
31. The Society’s Finances
32. The Jubilee
33. The Environment: Church Developments – Anglican
34. The Environment: Church Developments – Evangelical
35. The Society at Home
36. Some Recruits from the Universities
37. Islington College and its Men
38. Church Organization: The Church of New Zealand
39. West Africa: Three Missions and Three Bishops
40. East Africa: The Missionaries and the Explorers
41. Jerusalem and Constantinople: Jew, Turk, Christian
42. India Under Dalhouse; and the Missions in the North
43. India: The Missions in the South
44. India: The Punjab – For England and For Christ
45. India: The Mutiny – Its Victims and its Lessons
46. India: The Great Controversy – Neutrality or Christianity?
47. India: Missions After the Mutiny
48. Ceylon’s Isle
49. China: In Time of War and Tumults
50. The Great Lone Land
51. An Anxious Period: In the Society, and in the Church
52. The Period: More Church Developments
53. Salisbury Square
54. Candidates of the Period
55. The Native Churches: Self-supporting, Self-governing, Self-extending
56. Ebb-Tide in Africa
57. The Niger and its Black Bishop
58. The Islands: Mauritius and Madagascar
59. India: Rulers and Bishops of the Period
60. India: Babus, Brahmos, Borderers
61. India: Agencies Evangelistic and Pastoral
62. India: Death and Life
63. India: A Flag for Christ in the Punjab
64. China: New Mission and Old
65. The Land of the Rising Sun
66. Lands of the Utmost West: Manitoba; Metlakahtla
67. New Zealand: War, Apostasy, Fidelity
68. Henry Venn’s Latter Days
69. The Environment: Church Movements
70. The Environment: Evangelistic and Spiritual Movements
71. The Society: Missions, Men, Money
72. The Society: Home Influence and Organization
73. Africa: The Flowing Tide Again: Ilala – and After
74. Uganda: The Call and the Response
75. The Crescent and the Cross: Missions in Mohammedan Lands
76. India: Dioceses of Calcutta and Bombay
77. India: Diocese of Lahore
78. India: Diocese of Madras
79. India: The Hill Tribes
80. India and Ceylon: The Bishops and the Society
81. The Far East: Advance in China and Japan
82. The Far West: The Church among the Red Indians
83. The Epoch of 1880-82
84. The Environment: Ecclesiastical, Controversial, Spiritual
85. The Society A New Era of Progress
86. Three Memorable Years. 1885, 1886, 1887
87. Controversies Within and Attack from Without
88. Recruits of the Period: Men and Women
89. High Hopes and Sore Sorrows: West Africa and the Niger
90. High Hopes and Sore Sorrows: East Africa and Uganda
91. British East India; The Company, The Government, and the Missions
92. India: The Men and their Work
93. India: Some Features, Episodes, Incidents, and Controversies of the Period
94. Lands of Islam: Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Persia
95. In the Indian and Southern Oceans: Ceylon, Mauritius, New Zealand
96. China: Onward, Inward, – and Upward
97. Japan: The Nation, the Mission, the Church
98. The Red Indian Missions: Patterns of Zeal and Triumphs of Grace
99. Missions at Congresses and Conferences
100. Seven Years of the Policy of Faith
101. The Church, the Society and the Cause
102. The Society: Candidates, Controbutions, and the Three Years’ Enterprise
103. The Four Years Abroad: Africa
104. The Four Years Abroad: Asia
105. In Memoriam
106. Repice, Circumspice, Prospice