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\"Georgiana<\/a>The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts<\/em> (S.P.G) was founded in 1701 as an overseas missionary organisation of the church of England. Georgiana Forde provides us with a short history of the mission in which 15,000 men and women served. The Wikipedia article provides a useful summary here<\/a>. My thanks to Redcliffe College<\/a> for providing me with a copy to scan. This book is in the public domain.<\/p>\n

Georgiana M. Forde [1849\/50-1923\/1934], Missionary Adventures. A Simple History of the S.P.G<\/em>. London: Skeffington & Son, 1911. Hbk. pp.205. [Click to download complete book in PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n

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  1. The Great Commission \u2013 Founding of the S.P.G. – The Discovery of America – The English Settlers in North America in 1607 \u2013 Princess Pocahontas – The Pilgrim Fathers \u2013 Slavery in the New World – The Rev. George Keith, the first S.P.G. Missionary – Perils of a Sea Voyage – Treatment of Negro Slaves<\/li>\n
  2. The Rev. T. Barclay, Missionary to the Red Indians – Queen Anne visited by Red Indian Chiefs – Savage Warfare-War between the French and English in North America \u2013 The English victorious under Wolfe in 1759 \u2013 The Rev. J. Wesley an S.P.G. Missionary – The American Church asks in vain for Bishops \u2013 Revolution in the United States – Independence declared July 4th, 1776.<\/li>\n
  3. 40,000 “United Empire Loyalists” settle in Canada and the S.P.G. Missionaries accompany them – Bishops consecrated for the United States – Rev. Charles Inglis in 1787 consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia: our first Colonial Bishop – Travelling in Canada – The Story of the Shepherd Lad<\/li>\n
  4. Newfoundland \u2013 The Bermuda Islands \u2013 West Indian Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes – Barbados and Codrington College \u2013 Jamaica \u2013 Diocese of Nassau – Confirmations in the West Indies-Diocese of Antigua \u2013 Trinidad – The Asphalte Lake \u2013 List of West Indian and South American Dioceses<\/li>\n
  5. The. Panama Canal-Vasco Nuneo de Balboa \u2013 British Honduras – The Mosquito Indians \u2013 The Mahogany Cutters – British Guiana \u2013 The Rev. W. H. Brett – S.P.G. Missions to Redmen, East Indians, and Chinese<\/li>\n
  6. The First Missionary to Africa, the Rev. Thomas Thompson – The First Black Clergyman, the Rev. Philip Quaque \u2013 The West India Church Mission to West Africa – The Rev. W. H. Leacock founds the Rio Pongo Mission \u2013 Mohammedanism \u2013 Chief Richard Wilkinson’s Story \u2013 Foundation Stone laid of Fallangia Church – Rev. W.L. Neville’s Ministry – Conversion of the Devil-man and the greatest Slave-dealer<\/li>\n
  7. South Africa – Cape Town and the Rev. Henry Martyn – The first Bishop for South Africa consecrated in 1847 \u2013 Bishop Gray’s Visitations and Death – The Wreck of the “Birkenhead,” 1852 – The Bishoprics or Grahamstown and Natal founded \u2013 Mother Cecile-The Railway Mission \u2013 The Church Order of Ethiopia – Colenso, First Bishop of Natal, 1854 – Bloemfontein made a Bishopric, 1863. A diocese without a single church<\/li>\n
  8. Chaka and the Zulu Nation – Bishop Colenso and King Panda \u2013 Persecution – The Zulu War: Defeat at Isandhlwana – St. Augustine’s, Rorke’s Drift \u2013 Archdeacon Waters, founder of the Church in Kaffraria \u2013 Bishop Key of Kaffraria – A Missionary’s Letter – Diocese of Pretoria – The Rand, and the Community of the Resurrection – The Diocese of Mashonaland-Diocese of Lebombo – The Cape de Verde Islands – St. Helena-Ascension – Tristan d’Acunha – Madagascar and Mauritius<\/li>\n
  9. The East India Company – St. Thomas and the Syrian Church – The Five Chaplains-Parliament grants W. Wilberforce’s Request for Bishops – Calcutta and her first Bishops \u2013 Caste – Bishopric of Madras and Alfred Basil Wood \u2013 Bishopric of Bombay-Father Goreh \u2013 Lahore and Bishop French \u2013 Delhi and its first Christian Church \u2013 Burmah and Dr. Marks – The Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Chota Nagpur and the Kols – Tinnevelly and Nazareth – Ceylon<\/li>\n
  10. Siam \u2013 The Malay Peninsula and Singapore – Borneo, Mr. James Brooke, and Dr. McDougall \u2013 The Story of Igoh \u2013 China \u2013 The Boxer Rising and the S.P.G. Martyrs – Corea: How Christianity first reached Corea \u2013 Japan \u2013 The Day of Intercession for Foreign Missions, 1872 – The Six Japanese Dioceses – The “Nippon Sei Ko Kwai,” or the Holy Catholic Church of Japan<\/li>\n
  11. The first European Peopling of Australia \u2013 Bishop Broughton \u2013 1851, the Golden Year – Towns, Bush, Back Country, “Never, Never, Land” \u2013 Tasmania – New Guinea – New Zealand and its first Bishop<\/li>\n
  12. John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia – Norfolk Island – Pitcairn Island – Bishop Patteson martyred \u2013 Commander Goodenough murdered – Memorial Cross to Bishop Patteson – Bishop John Selwyn and the little Savage – Fiji and the Bishop of Polynesia \u2013 The Hawaiian Islands and American Missionaries – Henry Obookiah \u2013 Queen Kapiolane and the Goddess of Fire \u2013 S.P.G. Mission to the Chinese \u2013 Bishop Selwyn’s Diocese sub-divided into Nine<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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