{"id":319,"date":"2016-07-18T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2016-06-18T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T12:42:45","slug":"universities-central-mission-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/universities-central-mission-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Universities’ Central Mission to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A.E.M.<\/a>The Universities’ Central Mission to Africa (c.1857 – 1965) was set up by Anglican graduates from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Cambridge, Durham and Dublin. It’s work was concentrated on Nyasaland (now Malawi) and Zanzibar (now a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania). For more information about the mission, see this Wikipedia <\/a>article (which does not link to this book yet). This history covers the years 1859-1898 and is now in the Public Domain.<\/p>\n

A.E.M. Anderson-Morshead [1845-1928], The History of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa 1859-1898, 2nd edn. London: Office of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, 1899. Hbk. pp.494. [This material is in the Public Domain]<\/a><\/h2>\n

Contents<\/h3>\n

Author’s Preface
\nPreface
\nChronological Table <\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The Call to the Work<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The Shir\u00e9 Highlands<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. War, Famine, and Pestilence<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. New Ground<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. A Fellow-Worker<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. The Church in the Slave Market<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Daily Work in the Island and on the Mainland<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. On the Edge of the Wilderness<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Lake Nyasa<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Last Days of Bishop Steere<\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. The Mission on the Lake<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. Christian Villages on the Rovuma<\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. Magila in the Bond\u00e9 Country<\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. The Usambara Group of Missions<\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. The Years in Zanzibar<\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. The Chief Pastors<\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. A Parting View of the Mission<\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. After Two Years<\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. Slavery<\/strong>
    \n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Appendices<\/h3>\n
      \n
    1. Methods of Home Work<\/li>\n
    2. Methods of Mission Work<\/li>\n
    3. Constitutional History of the Mission<\/li>\n
    4. Synodical Action<\/li>\n
    5. English Members of the Mission<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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