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The following Public Domain biography of Jonathan Goforth is now available for download in PDF: Rosalind Goforth, Goforth of China. London & Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, Ltd., 1937. Hbk. pp.364. Goforth of China Introduction Dr. Goforth was one of the most radiant, dynamic personalities that ever enriched my life. God’s missionary program of the past half-century…
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Over the last few years as part of my “day job” I have been transcribing around 500 handwritten letters written by a Mr Edward Petter of Barnstaple to his beloved wife, Angee, dating between 1885 and 1901. Mr Petter was a sales representative for the Peek Freans biscuit company and in that capacity undertook no less…
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Canon E.C. Dawson’s biographical study of Missionary Heroines of the 19th Century is now available for free download in PDF. The book, which is abridged from a longer work by the same author contains short accounts of the following: Mrs. Anne Duff – wife of Alexander Duff, missionary to India. Mrs. Robert Clark – missionary…
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The following five rare articles are based on some very early accounts of missionary work among the cannibalistic Battahs of Sumatra in Western Indonesia. John T. Beighton, “The Battahs of Sumatra. A New Chapter in Missionary Annals, I,” Sunday at Home No. 1836 (July 6th 1889): 427-429. Click here to download. John T. Beighton, “The…