Author: Joseph MullensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Brief Memorials of the Rev. Alphonse Franclis Lacroix
Author: Joseph MullensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa
Author: James Barnett TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt
Author: Louisa Barnes PrattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Henry Bigler was a common man who secured a place in history by accurately dating the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California. M. Guy Bishop provides a detailed look at his simple life.
The Missionary Review of the World
Author: Paths of Duty
Author: Patricia GrimshawPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824879139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Twenty-three-year-old Laura Fish Judd left rural Massachusetts in 1827 for the Hawaiian islands, one of eighty young American women who enlisted in the effort to Christianize the islands between 1819 and 1850. Only a month before, after receiving a marriage proposal from a young physician in need of a wife to qualify for mission service, she had written in her diary: "'The die is cast.' I have in the strength of the Lord, consented Rebecca-like--I WILL GO, yes, I will leave friends, native land, everything for Jesus." Laura Judd and other ambitious young women consented to hasty marriages with virtual strangers to achieve their goal of carrying Christ's message to the heathen. As Patricia Grimshaw's compelling study makes clear, these women were driven by a desire for important, independent life-work that went well beyond their expected roles as dutiful wives. The ambitions, hopes, and fears of those eighty pioneer women make a poignant and fascinating story. But Paths of Duty does more than recount the experiences of a group of individuals. Grimshaw shows how the mission women reflected the larger society of which they were part, and through their story shed new light on the role of American Protestant mission in Hawaii. Although the women's public role in mission work was limited, they were highly influential in their daily and seemingly mundane interactions with Hawaiian women. The American women's ethnocentricity made them quite incapable of appreciating Hawaiian culture on its own terms, but their notions of proper femininity and female behavior were effectively transmitted to Hawaiian girls and women. Paths of Duty provides a deeper understanding of this neglected process of acculturation in the islands and its eventual implications for Hawaii's entry into the American sphere of influence.
Memoir of Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep
Author: Louisa Fisher HawesLights and Shades of Missionary Life
Author: John H. PitezelPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Story of the Morning Star
Author: Hiram BinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Autobiography of Rev. Alvin Torry
Author: Alvin TorryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Book of Missionary Heroes
Author: Basil MathewsPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Book of Missionary Heroes" by Basil Mathews. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.