{"id":933,"date":"2017-03-10T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2016-11-24T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T09:55:57","slug":"bcms-burma-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/bcms-burma-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"First Twelve Years of BCMS Burma Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A.T.This is an account of the beginnings of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society (B.C.M.S.) work in Burma. B.C.M.S. became Crosslinks<\/a> in 1992. My thanks to Crosslinks and to Rev. A.T. Houghton’s family for their kind\u00a0 permission to place this book on-line, and to Redcliffe College<\/a> for providing a copy to scan. This book is copyright Crosslinks.<\/p>\n

A.T. Houghton [1896-1993], Dense Jungle Green. The First Twelve Years of the B.C.M.S. Burma Mission<\/em>. London: Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society, 1937. Hbk. pp.255. [Click to download complete book in PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n

Contents<\/h3>\n

Foreword
\nAuthor’s Notes
\nPrologue <\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. How it Came About<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. History and Geography<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. The Progress of the Pioneers<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Early Days<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Mountain and Plain<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Problems of Race and Language<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. A Courageous Couple<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. We Tackle Other Races<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. The Town of the Ogre<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Advancing Northwards<\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. By the Lakeside<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. Interlude, and a Venture in Reorganisation<\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. Gains and Losses<\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. A Notorious Slave Centre<\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. The Source of the World’s Jade<\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. A New Venture by the Sea<\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. “The Place Where the Tiger Roared”<\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. How We Get About<\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. How We Live<\/strong><\/li>\n
  20. Living Epistles<\/strong><\/li>\n
  21. Our Bit<\/strong><\/li>\n
  22. “We Have Left Undone”<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Epilogue
    \nRoll of Missionaries
    \nBibliography <\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n

    Foreword By Rear-Admiral Sir Harry H. Stileman, K.B.E.<\/h3>\n

    I accept with pleasure the invitation of the author of Dense Jungle Green to write this Foreword, seeing I\u00a0 have a very close and intimate touch with the B.C.M.S. Mission in Burma, through the link of family ties, and personal acquaintance with every member of the mission staff, except my grand-daughter, born in the Hukawng valley last autumn.<\/p>\n

    I have watched the growth and development of the mission with prayerful interest and attention ever since its inception, and rejoice in the remarkable results attained.<\/p>\n

    The method of pure evangelism in contradistinction to excessive institutionalism is the plan upon which this Mission has worked: every missionary first and foremost an evangelist; and, coupled with that, an absolute reliance upon the Word of God to do the work that the Holy Spirit intends, of convicting and converting. [Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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