Missionaries at Work – Church Missionary Society Training Manual

If you were preparing for overseas with the Church Missionary Society in the early 20th Century you would probably have received a copy of this book. It covers all aspects of missionary life from physical health to developing good relationships with fellow missionaries. Much of this material would still be relevant today.

My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this book for digitisation. This title is in the public domain.

Anonymous, Missionaries at Work. London: Church Missionary Society, 1905. Hbk. pp.184. [Download complete book in PDF]

Contents

• Preface to First Edition

1. Introductory
2. The Voyage. Its Perils and Possibilities
3. Climate and Health
4. Domestic Life – Part I
5. Domestic Life – Part II
6. The Moral Condition of Non-Christian Lands
7. Loyalty
8. Relations With Fellow Missionaries – Part I
9. Relations With Fellow Missionaries – Part II
10. Language Study and Examinations
11. Native Character and Thought
12. Work Amongst Native Christians
13. Work Among Non-Christians
14. Three Principles of Women’s Work
15. Marriage From a Missionary Standpoint
16. Relations With a Foreign Community
17. The First Furlough
18. The Missionary’s Inner Life

Preface

There are some books which command attention mainly by the exceptional importance of the topics of which they treat; others by their successful treatment of topics which are common-place. The following pages, it is hoped, will secure interest on both accounts. Although the subjects with which this book deals specially concern a comparatively limited circle of readers, yet by them they must be felt to be of the most sacred importance. When the call to foreign service has been answered by any servant of God, and the months of preparation have passed, and there comes on the soul an ever deepening sense of the tremendous responsibilities of the life work lying before it, there will surely be given a warm welcome to the counsels of an experienced friend peculiarly qualified to help the young Missionary in ordering his future steps along the paths of the divine Word. [Continue reading]