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\"Charles<\/a>Charles Robinson’s text-book on missions is comprehensive in its scope, covering the theology of missions, their geographical progress around the globe and among different religions. A chapter on missions societies is also included. My thanks to Redcliffe College<\/a> for providing me with a copy to scan. This work is in the Public Domain.<\/p>\n

Charles Henry Robinson [1861-1925], History of Christian Missions<\/em>. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1915. Hbk. pp.533. [Click to download the complete book in PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n

Contents<\/h2>\n

Preface
\nI. Introductory
\nII. Methods of Missionary Work
\nIII. The Dawn of Modern Missions (1580-1750)
\nIV. India
\nV. Ceylon
\nVI. Burma
\nVII China
\nVIII. Japan
\nIX. Corea
\nX. Malaysia
\nXl Western and Central Asia
\nXII. Africa XIII. America (U.S.A.)
\nXIV. Canada
\nXV. The West Indies
\nXVI. Central America
\nXVII. South America
\nXVIII. Australia
\nXIX. New Zealand
\nXX. Isles of the Pacific
\nXXI. Missions to Moslems
\nXXII. Missions to the Jews
\nXXIII. Missionary Societies
\nXXIV. The Outlook<\/strong><\/p>\n

Appendix – Christian Reunion in the Mission Field
\nIndex<\/p>\n

\n

Preface<\/h3>\n

The story of missions, which reaches back to the beginning of the Christian era, and embraces almost every country in the world, cannot be told within the limits of a single volume. The task which I have ventured to undertake is of a far less ambitious character, my object being to provide the intelligent reader with an outline sketch of Christian missions which may enable him to obtain a correct perspective, but which will need to be tilled in for each several country and period of history by much careful study.<\/p>\n

This volume is not intended to serve as a dictionary nor as a commentary upon missions, but as a text-book to encourage and facilitate their study. Those who have devoted the largest amount of time to such study will be most ready to forgive its imperfections and shortcomings. A well-known authority on the subject of Foreign Missions, to whom the task of writing this book was originally assigned, but who failed to respond to the invitation, wrote to its present author, “You have an almost impossible task; I should absolutely quail at the work you are doing.” [Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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