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The Story of the American Board; An Account of the First Hundred Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

The Story of the American Board; An Account of the First Hundred Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

          
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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: Pilgrim Press Subjects: Missions Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter II STARTING IN INDIA AND CEYLON The Caravan arrived at Calcutta June 17, 1812. The missionaries did not have to wait long for their trials; strangely, the first opposition was not from the people of the Rece ti n lan(j' but from men of their own race. The East India Company, whose tenure of special privilege was then being sharply protested in England, was doing its utmost to keep missionaries out of the country where their observant eyes were dreaded. Sydney Smith's brilliant lampoons in the Edinburgh Review sought to rout from India the "nest of consecrated cobblers." Thus far the British government had not refused to maintain the rights of its own citizens already engaged in missionary work in these far-off possessions; for Americans, with whom England was on the brink of war, there was no opening. Ten days after their arrival the governor-general commanded Judson and Newell to return to America on the Caravan. At first there seemed nothing else to do; Burma was closed, appeals to enter other parts of India were unavailing. When letters came from their brethren on the Harmony at the Isle of France (Mauritius) saying that the governor of that island desired missionaries, the way seemed plain. Here was territory not under the control of the East India Company; might they go there ? Permission was granted. The first vessel to sail could take but two passengers; the Newells sailed in her, the Judsons were to follow. When the Harmony reached Calcutta a few days later, itsparty met a similar receptio...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150318207
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 186 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150318201
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jan 2012
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 172
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 318 gr

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