Author: James Shepard DENNISPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Foreign Missions After a Century ... With Introduction by T.M. Lindsay
Author: James Shepard DENNISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Foreign Missions After a Century
Author: James Shepard DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Outline of a History of Protestant Missions from the Reformation to the Present Time
Author: Gustav WarneckPublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Mission Methods in Manchuria
Author: John RossWith the Tibetans in Tent and Temple
Author: Susie Carson RijnhartPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Foreign Missions After a Century
Author: James Shepard DennisPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230312705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... III. We have another important and promising factor in the successes of the century in the establishment of the mission plant in foreign lands. We shall deal here with statistics which speak for themselves, without any attempt to demonstrate their success. There are at the present time 3388 principal stations where missionaries reside, and from which mission work is conducted in outlying regions containing numerous substations. These outstations, in addition to-the centers already named, number 13,432, making a total of 16,820 localities where mission work is planted. There are 7800 organized churches in the foreign mission fields, and 4500 ordained native preachers, and, in addition, 40,032 native lay-helpers. There are about 7000 Sabbath-schools with 1,006,768 scholars. In this summary of evangelistic agencies we must not forget to notice the special work in the zenana and in the home, which has been so recently and rapidly organized, and so successfully conducted by devoted women who have made it their specialty. It is only since 1851 that this work was begun in India, and this "storming of the zenana," which is a stronghold of Hindu and Mohammedan jealousy and superstition, by the missionary heroines of India, with their weapons of love, tact, and sympathy, is one of those silent conquests by spiritual forces which resembles the victory of the sunlight as it melts the mighty masses of snow and ice which would be immovable by any other force. The educational plant is scarcely less remarkable than the evangelistic. There are colleges, higher educational institutions, theological seminaries, and common schools; and in these institutions there are gathered 678,370 of the young of both sexes receiving the inestimable advantages of a...
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple
Author: Susie Carson Rijnhart (M.D.)Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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