History of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society – First 25 years

The history of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society, now Crosslinks, from 1922-1947. The book includes several photographs and maps showing the locations of the mission stations in India, Iran, Ethiopia, Uganda, Canada, Morocco and Burma. Reproduced by kind permission of the copyright holder Crosslinks. This PDF can be used for free educational purposes, but not sold for profit without written permission from the copyright holder.

W.S. Hooton & J. Stafford Wright, The First Twenty-Five Years of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society (1922-47). London: Bible Churchmen;s Missionary Society, 1947. Hbk. pp.242. [Click to visit the download page]

Contents

• Foreword, by the Rev. Daniel H.C. Bartlett, M.A., D.D

  Authors’ Preface

1. A New Church Society
2. Early Days and Small Beginnings
3. Consolidation and Extension
4. The Colleges
5. Another Contindent Entered
6. Stubborn Strongholds of Antichrist
7. The Most Troubled Land
8. Thrusting Outward in the Burma Field
9. Gatehring up the Threads
10. The Falling Star of Ethiopia
11. China’s Two Suns
12. Rays in India’s Darkness
13. Bright Sky in Burma
14. A Constellation and Single Stars
15. The Young Crescent
16. The Lights of Home
17. Remote from the Battle Fronts
18. Threatened, but not Touched
19. Disorganization in Africa
20. China Still in the Throes
21. “A People Scattered and Peeled”
22. Testing Times at Home
23. Building Waste Places

• Epilogue, by the Rev A.T. Houghton
• Appendices
• Index

Foreword

This history has been entrusted· to one who did not take part in those inner councils which germinated and eventually directed the life of B.C.M.S., but who watched with sympathetic interest from an independent position the founding of a new Society based upon the wholehearted acceptance of the trustworthiness of the Word of God written and the Word of God Incarnate.

And the object of this history is simply to give Glory to God without Whose enablement and guidance the whole effort would have expired ignominiously. But Divine Grace manifested in the gift of a practical Faith engendered a “don’t-careism” concerning the things of Time, so necessary to the launching of a new witness to Truth amidst almost universal opposition….