Ken Stewart on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe: Fictional Missionary in Britain’s Pre-Missionary Age
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To trace, in the history of the missionary century just closed, the footsteps of God, is the one main end now in view; studying the divine plan, and its unfoldings in action and achievement. To know the supreme aim of a book helps to a right reading of it, and, if these pages are read…
Eugene Stock, who also wrote the massive 4-volume History of the Church Missionary Society, provides a brief – but nonetheless comprehensive – introduction to Christian missions. My thanks to the Cambridge Centre of Christianity Worldwide for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation. Eugene Stock [1836-1928], A Short Handbook of Missions. London:…
This is a book for children about the life of the missionary pioneer to South America, W. Barbrooke Grubb. This is the second of four in this blog mini-series featuring Grubb. Norman James Davidson [1860-1936], Barbrooke Grubb Pathfinder. The Record of an Adventurous Life of Courage & Endurance Nobly Spent Amongst the Savage Peoples of…
Kate Allenby [1871-1931] was an Australian missionary to Mayurbhanj in Odisha State in Eastern India. This small book was written as a record of her work. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation. G.B.G., Kate Allenby of Mayurbhanj. Brisbane, Queensland: Evangelical Missionary Society in Mayurbhanj, 1933….
Paget Wilkes [1871-1934] was one of the co-founders of the Japan Evangelistic Band in 1903. This book contains extracts from his diary from his tour of Japan in 1910. According to Wikipedia: The work of the JEB… has led to the establishment of the Kansai Bible College in Kobe and over 150 churches in Japan….
This little book tells the story of the Church Missionary Society’s work in Egypt and Palestine up to the early 1930s. S.A. Morrison, The Way of Partnership With the C.M.S. in Egypt and Palestine. London: Church Missionary Society, 1936. Hbk. pp.87. Click to download in PDF. Reproduced by kind permission of the Church Missionary Society…