{"id":1299,"date":"2017-08-21T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2017-05-01T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:02:46","slug":"robert-moffatt-and-dan-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/robert-moffatt-and-dan-crawford\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories of Robert Moffatt and Dan Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-1302\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1302\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pioneers-in-african-wilds_ellis.jpg\" alt=\"James Joseph Ellis [1853-?], Pioneers in African Wilds. The Life Stories of Robert Moffatt and Dan Crawford\" width=\"300\" height=\"417\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog?longdesc=1302&amp;referrer=1299\" \/>This book contains a brief account of the lives of two significant missionaries to Africa: Robert Moffatt and Dan Crawford. It appeared as part of a series called &#8220;Men and Women Who Have Moved the World&#8221; published by Pickering &amp; Inglis. My thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/redcliffe.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redcliffe College<\/a> for providing a copy of the book for digitisation. This title is in the public domain.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/pdf\/e-books\/ellis-e-e\/pioneers-in-african-wilds_ellis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> James Joseph Ellis [1853-?], <em>Pioneers in African Wilds. The Life Stories of Robert Moffatt and Dan Crawford<\/em>. London: Pickering &amp; Inglis, [1935]. Hbk. pp.96. [Click to download the complete book in PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<h4>Robert Moffatt. The South African Pioneer<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The Scot&#8217;s Laddie<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Errand Boy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tame Man<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The King of Spades<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sower<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Finished Task<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Aged Worker<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Accepter of God<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Dan Crawford. The Central African Mission<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Preface<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The Boatman&#8217;s Child<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Novel Apprenticeship<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Venture of Faith<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>An Untrammelled Start<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mushidi, an African Napoleon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wheels of God<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Aftermath of Strife<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Pioneer Prospector<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Village on the Lakeside<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Out of the Long Grass<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Robert Moffatt: Chapter 1: The Laddie Who Kept His Promise<\/h3>\n<p>How fair the Firth of Forth shines in the morning sun; like a sheet of pure silver, shot with purple and gold! Yonder, too, is Queensferry. Rest your blue bundle upon my parcels; we have still time for a crack, mother dear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The speaker was a tall, slender youth, with dark hair, and eyes of the same hue, singularly handsome in their liquid pathos. A broad high forehead, slightly shaded by scanty black hair, gave promise of considerable intellectual power; a large full nose above a mouth whose lips uncovered by moustache or beard, were tremulous with kindly humour and suppressed feeling. Altogether a face sweetly winning by its suggestions of sleeping smiles and ready sympathy. Evidently a youth to be trusted and loved. &#8220;Aye, laddie, &#8216;Kindness creeps where it daurna gang,&#8217; says the proverb. &#8216;Tis but little I\u00a0 can do now; but, oh, it goes sore to my heart that ye must go south. England is a\u00a0 bonny place, but it is like rending the flesh from my bones to see ye depart. &#8216;Tis the Lord&#8217;s will, and must be accepted.&#8221; <strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/pdf\/e-books\/ellis-e-e\/pioneers-in-african-wilds_ellis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book contains a brief account of the lives of two significant missionaries to Africa: Robert Moffatt and Dan Crawford. It appeared as part of a series called &#8220;Men and Women Who Have Moved the World&#8221; published by Pickering &amp; Inglis. 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