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TextA plea for Colonial Dioceses : in reply to strictures on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Field, EdwardSummary: A report and plea to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for additional funding for diocese in the British colonies in North America.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightCOPYRIGHT UNDETERMINEDSummary: A report and plea to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for additional funding for diocese in the British colonies in North America. -
TextA thrilling story of missions : Samuel Crowther, slave-boy and bishop
Summary: A brief biography of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A brief biography of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther. -
TextAccount of Armenians at Constantinople
Goodell, William, 1792-1867Summary: A missionary report detailing work with the Armenian population in Constantinople (Istanbul) in Turkey.Date CreatedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A missionary report detailing work with the Armenian population in Constantinople (Istanbul) in Turkey. -
TextAmerica tomorrow : what Baptists are doing for the child life of the nation
American Baptist Board of Education and PublicationSummary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextAn appeal of the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions : residing at Constantinople, to the friends and supporters of the mission in that city
Dwight, H. G. O. (Harrison Gray Otis), 1803-1862Summary: A call for assistance and support of mission work in Istanbul.Date CreatedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A call for assistance and support of mission work in Istanbul. -
TextAnjama : Bild des äussern und innern Lebens einer Tochter Afrikas
Kober, J.Summary: A biography of Anjama, a young woman from Ghana, who converted to Christianity.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: A biography of Anjama, a young woman from Ghana, who converted to Christianity. -
TextAutobiography of Peter Cartwright : the backwoods preacher
Cartwright, Peter, 1785-1872Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextAutobiography of Peter Cartwright : the backwoods preacher
Cartwright, Peter, 1785-1872Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextBlack Christians and White missionaries
Gray, Richard, 1929-2005Summary: In this book, one of the world's leading scholars on the history of religion in Africa shows how Christianity has been transformed as it has been adopted by black Africans, from the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century to the present. Richard Gray finds that Africans have not meekly accepted monolithic Western practices and interpretations but have appropriated Christian faith for specific needs and added to it insights of their ownDate Issued or PublishedCopyrightIN COPYRIGHTSummary: In this book, one of the world's leading scholars on the history of religion in Africa shows how Christianity has been transformed as it has been adopted by black Africans, from the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century to the present. Richard Gray finds that Africans have not meekly accepted monolithic Western practices and interpretations but have appropriated Christian faith for specific needs and added to it insights of their own -
TextEcole de Garcons, Longenschool
A postcard showing a class of young men and boys at the Longenschool.Date CreatedCollectionCopyrightCOPYRIGHT UNDETERMINEDA postcard showing a class of young men and boys at the Longenschool. -
TextFifty-two years in Florida
Ley, John C. (John Cole)Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextGabon, Case de Catechiste
A postcard showing a thatch-roofed buiilding, outside of which sit group of children. In the shade of the roof's overhang, a man is sitting in a white suit.Date CreatedCollectionCopyrightCOPYRIGHT UNDETERMINEDA postcard showing a thatch-roofed buiilding, outside of which sit group of children. In the shade of the roof's overhang, a man is sitting in a white suit. -
TextMbuma-zending
A postcard showing Sister Coote, next to the unnamed mother, holding the first baby born with surgical intervention as part of the "Mbuma-zending" medical. The photograph was taken a few months after the birth. The verso includes a description of the image and a request for donations to the Dutch Foundation "Mbuma-zending" which supports the mission work of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe and Zambia).Date CreatedCollectionCopyrightCOPYRIGHT UNDETERMINEDA postcard showing Sister Coote, next to the unnamed mother, holding the first baby born with surgical intervention as part of the "Mbuma-zending" medical. The photograph was taken a few months after the birth. The verso includes a description of the image and a request for donations to the Dutch Foundation "Mbuma-zending" which supports the mission work of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe and Zambia). -
TextMemoirs of Mr. Wesley's missionaries to America : Compiled from authentic sources
Sandford, P. P. (Peter P.), 1781 or 1782-1857Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextMemoirs of the life and writings of The Rev. Richard Watson, late secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society
Jackson, Thomas, 1783-1873Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextMemoirs of the life and writings of The Rev. Richard Watson, late secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society
Jackson, Thomas, 1783-1873Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextMission Baudouinville
A postcard showing in the distance the "Mission Baudouinville." A road lined by thatch-roofed buildings leads up to the church. The shot shows a number of individuals carrying baskets and bundles walking towards the church between several palm trees.Date CreatedCollectionCopyrightCOPYRIGHT UNDETERMINEDA postcard showing in the distance the "Mission Baudouinville." A road lined by thatch-roofed buildings leads up to the church. The shot shows a number of individuals carrying baskets and bundles walking towards the church between several palm trees. -
TextOutline of missionary policy.
Summary: A policy document for missionary work.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightCOPYRIGHT UNDETERMINEDSummary: A policy document for missionary work. -
TextSixty-one years of intinerant Christian life in church and state
Pearne, Thomas Hall, 1820-1901Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextStory of my life : an account of what I have thought and said and done in my ministry of more than fifty-three years in Christian lands and among the heathen
Taylor, William, 1821-1902Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextThe Christian history, or a general account of the progress of the Gospel in England, Wales, Scotland and America
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770Summary: Correspondence of Whitefield and other missionary Methodists in Great Britain, New England, South Carolina and Georgia, written 1746-July 1748.CopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: Correspondence of Whitefield and other missionary Methodists in Great Britain, New England, South Carolina and Georgia, written 1746-July 1748. -
TextThe Wesleyan-Methodist missions, in Jamaica and Honduras, delineated : containing a description of the principal stations. Together with a consecutive account of the rise and progress of the work of God at each. Illus. by a map and thirty-three lithograph views
Samuel, PeterSummary: An illustrated description of Methodist missions in Jamaica and Honduras.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightCOPYRIGHT UNDETERMINEDSummary: An illustrated description of Methodist missions in Jamaica and Honduras. -
TextThe gospel on the banks of the Niger : journals and notices of the native missionaries accompanying the Niger Expedition of 1857-1859
Crowther, Samuel, 1806?-1891Summary: An account of the British missionary expedition down the Niger River from 1857-1859.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightIN COPYRIGHTSummary: An account of the British missionary expedition down the Niger River from 1857-1859. -
TextThe knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities : or, An essay towards an instruction for the Indians ... In several short and plain dialogues. Together with directions and prayers ... By the Right Reverend Father in God, T.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755Summary: An instructional text using an imagined dialogue between a missionary and an "Indian" to illustrate how a missionary in the field might instruct a potential convert in the Christian practices. It is unclear from the text what people or peoples are meant to be represented by the "Indian," or if the author is simply using the term as a broad catchall.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightSummary: An instructional text using an imagined dialogue between a missionary and an "Indian" to illustrate how a missionary in the field might instruct a potential convert in the Christian practices. It is unclear from the text what people or peoples are meant to be represented by the "Indian," or if the author is simply using the term as a broad catchall. -
TextThe knowlege and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities, or, An essay towards an instruction for the Indians : which will likewise be of use to all such who are called Christians, but have not well considered the meaning of the religion they profess, or, who profess to know God, but in works do deny Him : in twenty dialogues : together with directions and prayers ...
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755Summary: An instructional text using an imagined dialogue between a missionary and an "Indian" to illustrate how a missionary in the field might instruct a potential convert in the Christian practices. It is unclear from the text what people or peoples are meant to be represented by the "Indian," or if the author is simply using the term as a broad catchall.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: An instructional text using an imagined dialogue between a missionary and an "Indian" to illustrate how a missionary in the field might instruct a potential convert in the Christian practices. It is unclear from the text what people or peoples are meant to be represented by the "Indian," or if the author is simply using the term as a broad catchall. -
TextThoburn--called of God
Oldham, William Fitzjames, 1854-1937Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextThomas Corwin Iliff : apostle of home missions in the Rocky Mountains
Gillilan, James DavidSummary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: -
TextWorld tour of evangelism
Morrison, H. C. (Henry Clay), 1857-1942Summary:Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESSummary: