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187852617London: James Nisbet 1878. 8vo pp. xv 1 320 16 ads; 4 wood-engraved plates the frontispiece appears to have been reinserted; original green cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper cover and spine; edges rubbed and worn; a good sound copy. <br/><br/> James Nisbet hardcover books
16438Life and Light for Women. Vol. XXXIII. Vol. 8. August 1903. Boston: Woman's Board of Missions 1903. Black and white frontispiece photo of pupils at a missionary school in Zimbabwe. Original paper wraps. Staplebound. Starting in the mid-19th century there was a growing movement of international missionary trips for women who felt they had a special duty to Christianize other women who for cultural and societal reasons would not be able to hear the gospel from male missionaries. Most often female missionaries worked in educational capacities establishing schools abroad or worked in medical clinics as nurses and doctors. This report details various projects being done by women missionaries worldwide including medical work being done by Dr. Ruth Hume in India and updates on schools in Africa and Asia. Very good condition. unknown books
188049586St. Ignatius Montana: St. Ignatius Print 1880. 8vo pp. 4 45 1; original paper wrapper perished reinforced in stiff brown library card; pages toned and worn at edges good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate with release stamp on title page. "These works were put in type and printed by the Indian school boys at St. Ignatius. About 225 copies of each were printed." Pilling identifies the author as Giorda per his correspondence with a superintendent of the school Father Leopold Van Gorp. Pilling Salishan p. 28; Pilling Proof-sheets 1558; Schoenberg 7. <br/><br/> St. Ignatius Print unknown books
184790883New York: Snowden & Prall Printers 1847. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 93p. Original marbled boards. 23cm. Lacks backstrip. Covers detached. Substantial foxing in large portions of book. DEFECTIVE -- one signature pages 57-64 present in duplicate while the next signature pages 65-72 is missing. Ex lib. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Library. <br/><br/> Snowden & Prall, Printers hardcover books
4337CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN INDIA. An archive of three letters from Christian missionies in India to E.E. Pelz of Seattle Washington: TLS. 1pg. 8 ½†x 11â€. March 5 1902. Allahabad India. A typed letter signed “Rockwell Clancy†to E.E. Pelz: “I have been transferred from the Allahabad District to the Muttra District. There are more than 12000 Christians in my new district and it will be impossible for me to attend to that work to retain the secretary ship of the Bishop Thoburn Special Fund for India. Mr. Rockey is a missionary of many years experience and is not new to the work of the special fund as he was secretary before I took over the work from him at the beginning of 1895 when he went to America on furlough. His name will be familiar to the patrons of 1894 in previous years. I feel sure that anyone who has ever had a letter from him about the work in India will be very glad to know that he is taken up this duty again. Among all are missionaries there are very few men who can write more interestingly of India than Mr. Rockey.… Let me ask you to continue to do all you can to interest others in India. The opportunities for work among the heathen are boundless. Many doors are open to us; thousands would become Christians if we could give them pastors and teachers. I came to India 18 years ago. At that time there were not more than 10000 Christians in our mission; today there are 128000. Let us continue to pray and work till India becomes a Christian land.†The letter has chipping along the right edge and is in good condition. TLS. 1pg. 8 ½†x 11â€. April 24 1902. A typed letter signed “N.L. Rockey†on “The Bishop Thoburn Special Fund For India†letterhead. He wrote to E.E. Pelz: “The latest draft from mission rooms brought to meet your your donation of $15 given in February for the continued support of a pastor – teacher in India. I find from the books that Bro. Clancy turned over to me that you have given on several occasions but he has made no assignment. I know that it is pleasant for people who give for this fun to have some special man in view and therefore ascending the sum to the presiding elder of Kasgunj district I asked him to send me the names of men who would be supported by the special fund. One of them I am assigning to you. When you pray and when you give keep Chadmai Lall's maybe for you. He is a pastor – teacher in Kasgunj district. He is 28 years of age. A number of villages must be visited by him. In some of these villages a few Christians live apart from other people despised by their neighbors. This year he has 10 men whom he is seeking to win for Christ. He also teaches a small school which 15 boys are reading.N.L. Rockeyâ€. The letter has a rough right edge. ALS. 5pg. 5†x 8â€. April 24 1902. Sitaper India. A lengthy autograph letter signed “N.L. Rockey†to E.E. Pelz: “Several years ago we had the pleasure of receiving from you a donation of $15 for our special fund but now for some time we've not heard from you. It is possible to the fault is ours and that you do not get a proper acknowledgment of your donation. Our Bro Clancy tried to keep all straight but he has had several men working upon them and the great strain of the famine came let some of the records get into confusion and the writing had to be left to such helpers as he could secure. You will see by the enclosed that I am now called to this duty and I desire to have brethren in America correspond with me concerning any difficulty in past donations. As far as I can I will trace the matter a reply to your questions. We have been roughly honest with the money you entrusted to us. Over one half of the work in the N.W. India conference has been carried on only through the aid of the special fund that started as promised…$100 would support a full preacher…We would be so glad to enlist your prayers and help to enable us to continue our work. Our missionary society has scattered its obligations on all continents and is not been able to contain its support to India. You can designate your gift for the support of… Scholarships for our native schools or for the support of an orphan or for the endowment of our English schools where our missionaries children are educated. We need a fund that will supply good teachers in these.N.L. Rockeyâ€. The lengthy letter is in fine condition. unknown books
15051pg. 6" x 7 ½". July 20 1818. Kensington probably Connecticut. An autograph letter signed "John Blake" as president of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge to Reverend Eliphalet Pearson 1752-1826 a Harvard professor who began the theological seminary at Andover Academy: "The committee in Kensington for travailing Ministerial affairs again hereby testify their grateful acknowledgements to you and to the Society over which you preside for favours recently received and still solicit your further aid in supporting Mr. Minister Samuel Whiting as a preacher of the Gospel among us the one hundred dollars already voted to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge was with the sole view that Mr. Whiting might be continued among us whose labors are very acceptable and be assured that we on our part will endeavor to do as much as we can for his support." The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge was a Scottish organization whose mission was to Christianize Native Americans. The letter is clearly legible with a few spots of toning unknown books
19695ca. 1920-1931 Kyushu Japan. Very good . Oblong 4to. String-tied commecial album; black boards. Contains 57 gelatin-silver prints of various sizes including 8" by 10" 7.5" by 5" and smaller most of which are adhesive-mounted with several loose plus 11 postcards depicting Kyushu Lutheran churches and one bookmark. One photograph apparently perished; several others loosening from pages. Else apparently complete.Album edges moderately worn; one photo missing a chunk at edge. Most are lightly toned but overall clean. Very good or better. <br/><br/>Well-assembled photo album compiled by an American Lutheran missionary to Japan whose face appears consistently in the majority of the photographs. The island of Kyushu is home to several Lutheran schools and churches including the Kyushu Gakuin Kyushu Lutheran College and the Janice James School both of which are pictured here having recently been built in the early 1900's. The Kyushu Lutheran mission was founded in 1893 by American missionaries; within several years they began building churches under the supervision of one Charles Lafayette Brown 1874-1921 and presumably the subjects pictured here with members of that particualr mission. The album features posed group photographs of large congregations — as large as roughly 150 — captioned with date and location in cities including Kurume Kamamoto and Saga; additionally included are many images of church services in progress plus several family portraits of church members. While Christianity began to spread when Japan phased out its isolationist policies in the 1850s Protestant evangilization in particular slowed under the military government of the Showa period the early years of which are covered by this album.These anti-Western trends were closely tied to the patriotic fervor that culminated in WWII. An absorbing visual archive of a prospering Protestant community and of American missionary activity in Imperial Japan. hardcover books
19351552Los Angeles 1935. Very good. 169 leaves plus 5 leaves laid in. Mimeograph typescript. Folio. Original blue paper folder title printed on cover. Light wear and fading to covers heavier at edges. Contents with minor toning and wear heavier to leaves laid in. Informative manual compiled by a missionary to the Fuzhou Parish in China providing numerous details about membership the Foochow Parish and projects of the mission together with information on the work of the outreach work of the California Methodist Episcopal Church. The work designed to be used with adults interested in missionary work is illustrated with hand-drawn maps as well as small illustrations and Chinese characters. In addition to Christianizing efforts there is significant information on life in Fuzhou such as agriculture climate population handcrafts topography and plants native to the area. The foreword describes the purpose of this volume:<br /><br />"This is not a text book of missions. This unpretentious Manual does attempt to answer everybody's question 'How can I with the resources within reach make our church a co-operating unit of the world parish -- enthusiastically missionary whole-heartedly sustaining the Kingdom of God at its frontier' It proposes to help introduce you to our Parish the Foochow Area and to our missionary co-workers both Chinese and American. . The Manual will not work for arm chair missionaries; it will not substitute for your personal interest. . But to those who with ready will and offered talents seek ways new or old to better fulfill the Great Commission we dare to hope that this simple cluster of idioms may be of assistance."<br /><br />An interesting glimpse into the life of a Chinese Christian parish and the missionary efforts there. One similar item found in OCLC -- prepared by a different person but also on the Foochow Parish -- at the Graduate Theological Union Library in California. books
1971WRCAM56376Mostly various locations in Tennessee and Virginia plus Salt Lake City 1971. 240 letters various paper stocks and sizes including some Mormon-related stationery most letters at least three pages in length each stapled plus a handful of clippings postcards assorted photographs and an appointment book. Neatly organized chronologically and by sender in labeled manila folders and stored in a single document box. Minor tears to a few letters else mostly clean and very good overall. An important archive of correspondence centering on Mormon missionary activities in the American South during the Great Depression and the years of World War II. All of the letters were written to Ruby Marion a Mormon woman from Virginia. The most significant letters come from Ralph Horrock a Mormon missionary operating mostly out of Tennessee but also Virginia. Horrock's letters to Marion number almost eighty and are filled with interesting information on Mormon missionary efforts. Other important letters were written to Marion by Mormon Elder Gaell Lindstrom from both Virginia and Salt Lake City her husband William "Bill" Tragdon and Ruby Marion's mother and sister. The letters from Marion's husband mother and sister mostly concern family matters but the letters from Horrock and to a lesser degree from Lindstrom are highly significant for their voluminous content on Mormon missionary activities in the American South. <br> <br> Ralph Horrock was sent to Tennessee to spread the Mormon faith at the end of 1934. He and a companion were ordered to travel throughout the countryside and preach the tenets of Mormonism. Horrock is reserved in his letters at first writing that he would have preferred to stay in Virginia where Marion was located. He is clearly smitten with Ruby Marion however and writes more and more about his love for her as his correspondence continues. Marion visited Horrock in Tennessee in the summer of 1935 and their correspondence continues to January of 1936 but their romantic relationship clearly did not flourish. Marion would eventually marry William Tragdon some time after 1948. <br> <br> Often traveling by foot through the South Ralph Horrock and his companion elders visited both the cities and the small country towns they found preaching the Mormon faith at local town halls and school houses sometimes finding challenging audiences. They established Sunday school classes held prayer meetings preached at funerals of deceased Mormons living in Tennessee and more. Horrock mentions proselytizing to some of the country people and even holding river baptisms. Inevitably he also relates to Marion various gossip about the inner workings of the Mormon Church in Tennessee and Virginia asks Marion for gossip she might know and also asks about the movements of other missionaries in the region. Horrock finds much joy in his work for quite a long time - at one point a local community in Tennessee asks him to build a church and stay there as their preacher - but by the conclusion of his letters to Marion the joy seems to have faded. A handful of brief excerpts of Horrock's letters to Marion reveal the compelling and informative nature of his correspondence: <br> <br> March 23 1934. Marysville Tn.: "I don't think I will have any more lonesome and blue spells for a while now because I am too busy what I mean they sure do the Missionary work here in Tenn. We get in about six hours tracting per day and I sure love to tract here for people love to talk with you on religion and no fooling some of them are sure interested. Since I came here I sure have had plenty of opportunities to preach. We hold cottage meetings three and some times four times a week. There is one thing I can say about this state of Tennessee - it sure is a land of opportunity for a missionary. I am now really learning to be a preacher you ought to hear me some time but I better shut up for self praise is not very good is it" <br> <br> May 30 1935. Silver Point Tn.: "We had a swell meeting at Knoxville but I guess I told you about it in my last letter. We are now away out in the sticks right out with the good old hill billies I think we are about forty miles from Nashville. We are having wonderful success out here we are holding cottage meetings most every night so you can see we are getting plenty of preaching.We would have been in McMinnville last Sunday but at the last moment before we left Knoxville the D.P. changed his mind and sent us to Silver Point. They are holding a big memorial celebration here next Sunday and they wanted two Elders here to preach for them so here we are. I have to go about five miles to a little old country post office to mail this letter so I will have to hurry to get it there before the afternoon mail arrives." <br> <br> June 25 1935. Spencer Tn.: "I am glad to say I am still all together and healthy even though we are in a somewhat hostile section. The people here would like to be tough but after all they are only wind bags. You recall I told you we were going to hold some meetings in the County Court House at Spencer and I thought that we might meet up with some opposition. Well we held our first one last night and we had the building almost full. No one caused us a bit of trouble rather they were all ears and I am sure they heard something last night they had never heard before. The thing that gets the best of these people is this - even though we do present strange doctrine to them we have scripture to prove each point we bring out. People might come to hear us with the intention of giving us trouble. But after they hear us prove our points so clearly from the Bible the only thing they can do is take it and keep still. I feel that the Lord has greatly blessed us in our work here and if we have succeeded in doing a good work I do not want to take the honor to my self.We are having more success here than any other place I have been in since I came to Tennessee. We held an open air meeting here Sunday and almost a hundred people came to hear us. Tonight we are holding services again at the Court House and I am expecting the House to be full." <br> <br> July 21 1935. Smithville Tn.: "You said something about the Elders going to Harrisonburg to Baptize those people over there. Do you know whether or not they did I would really like to know of them coming into the Church because I had such a large part in bringing them to a knowledge of the Truth. If they are Baptized then I can look back and with the assurance that I really did accomplish something while I was there.Who is the new D.P. in Virginia or do they know yet I really pity the poor fellow who gets the job.Virginia is the best District in the Mission in lots of ways but when it comes to getting real practical experience then give me Tennessee. I have ten chances to preach here where I get one there. And another good thing the people like to hear the Gospel here and they come out in such large crowds we have to hold our meetings outside. Whenever we held cottage meetings in Va. we never did get over twenty people out but here it is nothing at all to get over a hundred. You know it is really some difference. Are the Elders still laboring in the cities yet I really would hate to do that. The city don't provide half the fun and experiences that the country does. I would go wild if I had to stay in the city. We held a baptism the other day and after the services we went swimming and some also went wading so you see we have some real fun too once in a while." <br> <br> September 2 1935. Spencer Tn.: "We really have so much work to do we really don't have time to stop and see if we are well or sick. I can say though that I am really enjoying myself more than words can tell. There is one thing about missionary work that makes it better than any thing I have ever done before and that is the more you work the better you like it. I really did not know what real missionary work was until I came to Tennessee. Over in Virginia it was just easy come easy go and we only got to preach about once or twice in a week and even at that I thought I really was doing something. But since I came here I am fully convinced that I only wasted time in Va. We get to preach somewhere here every night and twice on Sunday and we get many other experiences that goes to make this the greatest work in the world." <br> <br> September 7 1935. Spencer Tn.: "As usual we are having wonderful success in presenting the Gospel before the people and we have made lots of friends which I am very thankful for. We have just come today out of a back woods country which is so far out of the way the Elders haven't visited it for years. The people there sure did turn out to hear us preach. We used the School House to hold our meetings in and so many people came there wasn't room for them so they had to sit outside and listen. I wish we could stay there longer but it was impossible for we had to come into Spencer and get our mail. I have a job ahead of me that is going to be hard to do. There is an old woman that lives in the county that has a husband that is dead and he has been dead for about ten years. When he died she could not get any Elders to preach his funeral so she buried him without holding a funeral with the intention of having the first Elders that came hold it at his grave. We happened to be the first ones to come so the job is ours. It's going to be hard to do but I guess we will have to do it. There is no other way out. Well you know this Missionary work is not all sunshine and roses if we didn't get the bitter once in awhile we would not enjoy the sweet." <br> <br> December 2 1935. Morristown Tn.: "I am not enjoying my work here in the least. I never was in such a dirty hole as this little town is. We haven't a friend or a member within fifty miles. I haven't preached for so long I really believe I have forgotten how. I never was so divested of spiritual will power in my life as I am right now and I don't mind saying I am getting sick of it. Every other Elder in this District is laboring in a city where there is a brand that will provide them some place to work where they can at least see where they are accomplishing something. Still I suppose I shouldn't bother you with my troubles no doubt they do not interest you." <br> <br> Horrock concludes his correspondence the next month by relating that he is getting transferred to Chattanooga where he "will have plenty of good work to do." He writes to Marion for the last time that he does not know what his address will be so he asks Marion "not to write until you hear from me again." Perhaps Marion never heard from Horrock again. <br> <br> Other letters in the archive are written to Ruby Marion from another Mormon Elder named Gael Lindstrom who also appears to have served as a missionary in Virginia and West Virginia. In his fifty-two letters Lindstrom writes sparingly about his experiences as a Mormon missionary but when he does he provides interesting details. For instance on July 30 1943 in Huntington West Virginia Lindstrom writes: <br> <br> "We have spent a few days of this week in Huntington W.Va. as we are not so very far from there. It seemed good to return to the place where I had spent about seven months before coming into Virginia. Elder Price's father will be here in about ten days to work the rest of his mission with him. That will leave Elder Bray and I as the only Elders left in the district. Your guess is as good as mine as to what will happen then. He is coming down to Home Creek next Tuesday to do a little traveling with us in this section. He can't take us out of here too soon for me. This is really woods. Last nite we held a meeting in a small miner's union hall which was dimly lit by three gas lamps. There were about 35 present but I'm afraid all they came for was the novelty of it as they have a complete lack of amusements around here of any description." <br> <br> He also writes frequently of other elders or members of the church other church activities and leadership changes his travels to Mirror Lake and more. Lindstrom spent about six months in Louisville Kentucky where he was assigned in early 1944; two of his letters from Louisville are written on LDS stationery. By June 1944 he is back in Salt Lake City where he misses "being back in the mission field." The bulk of his letters emanate from Salt Lake City during the rest of 1944 and through mid-1947. Many of his letters concern his activities in the antiques trade which Marion may have been involved with as well. The two apparently corresponded about opening an antiques shop in Salt Lake City. Lindstrom's correspondence concludes with news that he is opening his own photography studio after working some time in the camera department at Auerbach's Department Store in Salt Lake City. <br> <br> The archive also includes correspondence from Ruby Marion's husband William Tragdon and Marion's mother and sister. Tragdon worked in the aeronautical engineering field and traveled extensively throughout the country. He was quite smitten by Marion evidenced by his thirty-seven letters home to "Kitten" from February to September 1948. Tragdon's letters are deeply personal missives to his wife and eventually to both his wife and son Howard in the late-1950s with occasional information on larger family matters. His two somber letters from 1970 and 1971 indicate that he and Marion had divorced. <br> <br> The letters from Marion's mother and sister are also mostly concerned with family matters. One interesting letter from Marion's sister Evelyn dated 1946 mentions a recent banquet where she "saw quite a few of the old missionaries that we once knew." Evelyn's letter also mentions Mormon presidents Tew and Doxey and a few other church colleagues she encountered at the banquet. <br> <br> There is also a folder containing ten letters from various correspondents to Marion from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some of these letters concern missionary matters from Virginia to as far away as the Dutch East Indies. The latter are written by a correspondent who signs his name as "Dee." Dee writes on Dec. 23 1944 that "We hold L.D.S. services on the island & have 100 present each Sunday." This folder also contains a selection of unused photo postcards from two photographs of Mormon Church elders one inscribed to Marion by Elder Clark O. Thompson and the other inscribed to "Dear Sister Ellinger" from Elder Frank Miller. <br> <br> The archive is rounded out by a small appointment book presumably kept by Marion or a family member from 1955 to 1960. The book is almost entirely comprised of appointments notes and schedules of Masonic meetings. The final folder contains several letters sent to Ruby Marion by V-Mail during World War II. The various letters appear to come from family friends named Jesse Terry Sgt. D. Sanders and H. Kenneth Coburn who also sent a signed photograph to Marion. All of these letters were sent to Marion at her address in Waynesboro Va. <br> <br> An engaging and far-ranging collection of correspondence to a Mormon woman from Virginia with illuminating information on Mormon missionary activities in the American South during the Great Depression. unknown books
1891BB009<p> CHINA: Propaganda against Western Missionaries<br /></p><p>The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A "Complete Picture Gallery" by CHOU HAN. Hankow China 1891. With 32 full=page woodblock plates printed in color. Oblong 4to original printed wrappers sewn spine soiling minor repairs.</p><p>The author Chou Han is described by the translator Griffith John 1831-1912 as 'a gentleman of high official rank Taotai in Hunan' and was part of an orchestrated propaganda campaign aimed at discouraging Western Christian missionaries from working and traveling in China. This volume was perhaps his most significant and horrific attack on western culture managing a "reptile press" in Hunan creating unrest and distrust amongst the Chinese people see John's "A Voice from China" 1907 p. 220. Chou Han himself is probably represented in plates IX XIII XXVI and XXIX; the images are virulently anti-foreigner and specifically anti-Christian. John translated and circulated the present work to draw attention to the British authorities of the problems faced by missionaries in Asia. </p><p>Very Rare. ONLY 3 COPIES CAN BE TRACED AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS ABPC & RBH. </p><br /> paperback books
