Ken Stewart on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe: Fictional Missionary in Britain’s Pre-Missionary Age
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Attack by brigands was a serious problem in China – and missionaries with the China Inland Mission were not immune from their attentions, as this little book recounts. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing an original copy for scanning. Reproduced by kind permission of the copyright holder, OMF International-UK. Mrs Howard Taylor [1865-1949], With…
Dr John Thomas [1757-1801] was a founding member of the Baptist Missionary Society and accompanied William Carey to India in 1793. Charles Bennett Lewis’s biography is one of the standard works on Thomas. The original from which this digital copy was made is held in Spurgeon’s College Library. This book is in the public domain….
The Police Court Mission was a forerunner of the UK Probation Service that was founded in 1907, but its importance is often overlooked. I was very pleased to find a copy of this rare and significant book recently at Book Aid and am endeavouring to ensure that the hard copy finds a safe home in…
Today’s free book is James S.M. Anderson’s History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire. This substantial 3 volume set is in the public domain. James Stuart Murray Anderson [1800-1869], The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire,…
The Mission to Lepers – later known as The Leprosy Mission – was founded by Wellesley C Bailey. This book, published three years before Bailey’s death at the age of 91 – to which he contributed the foreword – recounts the mission’s history. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy of…
German missionary Samuel Hebich [1803-1868] served for 25 years as leader of the Basel Mission in southwest India. His entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions notes in part: Hebich was exceptionally successful in the conversion of young British officers, although his autocratic inclinations made him a difficult person to work with. His rather…