London Missionary Society – Gleanings From Many Lands

This book represents a summary of the achievements of the London Missionary Society over 100 years since its foundation. It is drawn from accounts of its workers across the all the countries that the L.M.S. had worked in. There are fifty illustrations in this volume. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy of the book to scan. This title is in the public domain.

George Cousins [1842-?], Gleanings From Many Fields, 3rd edn. London: London Missionary Society, 1896. Hbk. pp.216. [Click to download complete book in PDF]

Contents

• Preface

1. Natives and Native Ways
2. Cruel Customs That Christ is Conquering
3. Child Life and Amusements
4. Stories of Wild Beasts
5. Perils by Land and Water
6. In the Land of Idols
7. Progress in “The Middle Kingdom”
8. Light in the Great Dark Continent
9. Madagascar and the Malagasy
10. Isles of the Southern Ocean
11. Rescuing the Negroes of the West Indies
12. Faithful Unto Death
13. Native Workers For Christ
14. Schools and Scholars
15. Among the Sick and Suffering
16. Women to the Rescue

Chapter 1: Natives and Native Ways

The South Sea Islanders, like many of their more civilized fellow-creatures, are very fond of feasting. They believe m p1es and puddings quite as much as. you do, and not only at Christmas time, but at all seasons of the year. Theirs, however, are much larger than yours. Fancy a pie ten or twelve feet round! And a roly-poly three hundred feet long, and about as thick as a man’s body! You could not eat many of those Christmas pies, or many slices of those puddings, I am sure! It would not be a very easy matter to make and cook such large pies and puddings in England, but the natives find no difficulty in making or eating them. To make the puddings, they simply dig a trench, fill it with wood, upon which they place stones. [Continue reading]