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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…
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The following four articles describing the progress of the Gospel in Samoa are now available on-line in PDF. George Cousins, “The Past and Present in Samoa,” Sunday at Home 36 No. 1832 (June 8th 1889): 360-364. [Click here to download] George Cousins, “The Past and Present in Samoa. II – Samoa Casting Off Idolotry,” Sunday at…
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My wife Michelle and I have decided to digitise a number of Sunday magazines from the Victorian Era, starting with the Sunday at Home. This was published by the Religious Tract Society in London from the 1850s to the 1920s and contains a wealth of interesting material. Amongst the most interesting are the various missions…
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The following article is now available on-line in PDF by permission of the author: Ken Stewart, “Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe: Fictional Missionary in Britain’s Pre-Missionary Age,” Haddington House Journal 14 (2012), 173-188. Click here to read this unusual article.