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192828236Women's Foreign Missionary Society Methodist Episcopal Church 1928. A folding card with a color front image of a school and palm trees. Opens to tipped in b&w image of classroom with children at their desks. "In the land of fair Malaya jutting outward to the sea There are boys and girls awaiting for the gifts from you and me. For the rites of heathen worship and ignorance abound And they list with eager longing for the Herald's joyful sound."<br /> <br /> This is a Junior Thank-Offering for the completion of a school building in Malacca and new school in Singapore. They ask for 6 dimes to be inserted in slots on the desks image then returned. 9 x 5" opens to 18 x 5 Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church unknown
1903164381903. Africa Women's Education Social Activist Life and Light for Women. Vol. XXXIII. Vol. 8. August 1903. Boston: Woman's Board of Missions 1903. First Edition 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
0428895573.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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19500032989London: Unevangelized Fields Mission 1950. First Edition. Softcover Paperback. Fair Condition. 21.5cm x 14cm. 54 pages black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers. Stories and documentation of the Unevangelized Fields Mission work in Congo in the between 1931 and 1949. At the time UMF had offices in London Toronto Philadelphia and Melbourne. In 2004 UMF changed its name to Crossworld and continues its missionary work around the world. Scarce 4 copies recorded in OCLC. Wrappers splitting at spine extremely tender. Category: Religion & Theology; Countries::Africa::Congo; Inventory No: 0032989. BZDB407 Religion & Theology; Countries::Africa::Congo; Unbranded Congo Missionaries of the Unevangelized Fields Mission Where the Master Touched Unevangelized Fields Mission paperback
191195663n.p.: West African African Mission A. B. F. F. M. 1911. Good. 400 248p. Lacks cover we don't know whether this uncommon linguistic item was originally hard or soft cover. Outer leaves soiled. This 1911 edition appears to be much explanded from the first edition of 1885. The first part Umbundu-English is longer and more detailed than the second part English-Umbundu. This feature is explained or excused in the Preface: "Having as a basis the Engliush-Umbundu vocabulary which fairly enough gathers up the Umbundu-English each one can prepare for his own use a serviceable English-Umbundu vocabulary. The work of printing has been so exacting on all concerned that adding to correcting or classifying the Umbundu words in the second part could not be attempted." The Preface also warns that "The necessity of substituting ordinary c for c with cedilla in Portuguese words containing that letter is one among several infelicities occasioned by an inadequate supply of type which are much regretted." Umbundu is spoken by about a third of the inhabitants of Angola making it that country's most widely spoken indigenous language. West African African Mission, A. B. F. F. M. unknown
19264568Queen's Hill Kotagiri Nilgiris India: June 26 1926. Very good. 5pp. typed on plain folio sheets. Old folds minor wear. An informative and entertaining correspondence by Kate M. French written while serving as a missionary teacher at the Preston Institute in Jangaon India. Writing to "Friends at Home" French opens by reporting that the school year started well "except for two of the boys whose mother was ill with Plague" the mother subsequently died. French also mentions students getting stung by scorpions a cobra snake killed by the headmaster of the school making valentines for the entire school on Valentine's Day and much more. French also recounts the comings-and-goings of various officials to her mission writes in detail about her attendance at a "teachers' institute" composed of teachers from "the American Methodist the English Wesleyan the American Mennonites and our own" details the school's commencement at the end of the term and more. The local plague is mentioned several times in French's letter. She mentions her own inoculation against the plague. She also records that "before long we learned that there had been several deaths from plague in our town. We had nearly all our Christians innoculated some time before and Mrs. Rutherford at once had the stragglers attended to those who had fever when the doctor was innoculating and one or two who were not very strong and would only be done if the disease came near." Shortly thereafter French notes that "people are leaving town on account of the plague." An interesting letter from an American woman teaching at a mission in India in the midst of the Roaring Twenties. June 26 unknown
19115251London: March 29 1911. Very good. 1p. Previously folded. Contemporary manuscript annotation is left margin. Light toning. A brief but interesting letter dated March 29 1911 from Marshall Broomhall Editorial Secretary of England's China Inland Mission to the Rev. Arthur H. Smail a prominent American Missionary in China. Broomhall had recently published a book Islam in China in which he promoted the use of Arabic-speaking missionaries to proselytize Chinese Muslims. The book used information received from Smail about the Chinese Muslim population but Broomhall at certain points managed to confuse Beijing Peking and nearby Tongzhou Tungchow while apparently attempting to criticize Smail's statements. This letter apologizes to Smail for his error though the American seems to have still been cross -- having received the letter Smail noted in the left margin "Two pages gives to demolishing what I never said! March 29 unknown
1984Q-0910984506Montfort Pubns 1984-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Montfort Pubns paperback
19556091Various locations in Costa Rica and Panama 1955. Very good. Three photograph albums: 10 leaves illustrated with thirty photographs most with manuscript annotations in white pencil; 22 leaves illustrated with seventy-one photographs most with manuscript annotations; 20 leaves illustrated with forty-nine photographs each with manuscript annotation. Each album oblong octavo in different colored cloth bindings string tied. Minor overall wear with a handful of loose photographs. A collection of three annotated vernacular photograph albums documenting the activities of Methodist missionaries in Costa Rica and Panama in the mid-20th century. The photographs picture the subjects traveling in the two countries scenes inside and outside the classroom views of native peoples and dwellings a mission in Costa Rica and the associated language school headed by Denton Powell Royster who is pictured here and identified as "Pastor Royster". The images capture missionaries on the road at roadside picnics enjoying leisure time at meetings and dinner celebrations and engaging in similar activities. Many of the subjects are named providing excellent opportunities for deeper study; individuals here include Stan Sheldon Jean Spahr or Spahn Virginia Miller Virginia Forkell Naomi Calkine Lois Henry Lorraine Roth Betty Brown Gordon and Marilyn Marken Norm Piersma Wally DeSmet John Gilmore and others. The album was compiled by a female missionary likely a member of the Benz family as one image is captioned "Peggy Daddy Mom and Steve Benz." Another photograph of a young woman is captioned "Me enroute to the falls at Catalina." She also identifies herself in other photos including one of her swimming at Ojo de Agua but never seems to indicate her name. She appears to have been an instructor at the language school; one image shows her and a few others in "Phonetics" class and another pictures her with other teachers of the grammar class.<br /> <br /> A couple of the image indicate some of the missionaries are part of a "Honduran prayer meeting." Other scenes of interest feature a group photograph of the language school "scenes from a woodworking shop on our paseo to the Roysters" activities in a coffee processing plant and views of the Irazu volcano among others. The indigenous or local peoples pictured here include the Baltadano family of the Central American Church a woman named Angela de Varga an oxcart operator in Costa Rica a young woman identified as "Maria una buena empleada" a man named Don Antonio and a few others. Identified South American locations include Cartago Church "the ruins of the oldest church in Costa Rica" Gatun Locks and other scenes in the Panama Canal Roble Alto the countryside near Cartago and the interior of a church in Cartago. A diverse collection of images memorializing American missionary activities in South American in the Eisenhower years with excellent potential for further study. unknown
0243233736.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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4337CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN INDIA. An archive of three letters from Christian missionies in India to E.E. Pelz of Seattle Washington:TLS. 1pg. 8 x 11. 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 x 11. 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. Rockey. The letter has a rough right edge.ALS. 5pg. 5 x 8. 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 preacherWe 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. Rockey. The lengthy letter is in fine condition. unknown
1935512689The Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod 1935. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 230pp. B/w map and frontispiece portrait collage extensively illustrated throughout with in-text b/w photos. 8vo sewn binding in green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and blind-stamped Pagoda to front cover. Tips rubbed text very clean and sharp with sound binding. The Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod hardcover
1900178748Tokyo: Japan Unitarian Mission 1900. First edition first printing. This window onto Japan's Westernization in the wake of the Meiji Restoration surveys the mission's history and work as well as its ambitious book distribution program which disseminated 100000 pamphlets in 1899. Landscape octavo. Tissue-guarded half-tone frontispiece illustrations in text. Original illustrated green card wrappers purple thread musubi toji binding front cover lettered in black. Covers a little marked small tear at lower tip of front cover contents clean: very good. unknown
1892List3029Indian Territory: N.p. 1892. Folio of eleven unbound sheets forty-four pages measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches. Marginal damage and fading to text; excellent. Amory Nelson Chamberlin 1821–1894 was born on Brainerd Mission in what is now Chattanooga Tennessee the son and grandson of missionaries. Fluent in both English and Cherokee Chamberlin worked as an interpreter and served under General Stand Watie in the Confederate States Army.1 After the war Chamberlin established the Pheasant Hill Mission near Vinita Indian Territory with Reverend Hamilton Balentine preaching in Cherokee and English.2<br /> <br /> Offered here is a Cherokee-language version of the Shorter Catechism translated by Chamberlin. The Cherokee written language is a syllabary—a writing system in which symbols represent whole syllables—developed in the early 19th century by Sequoyah a Cherokee leader and inventor. It was one of the first writing systems for an Indigenous American language and significantly increased Cherokee literacy within a short time of its adoption in the 1820s.3<br /> <br /> We find fifteen copies of Chamberlin’s catechism in OCLC. Of interest to historians of the Cherokee nation its language and its Christian missionaries.<br /> <br /> 1 Lon H. Eakes “Rev. Amory Nelson Chamberlin 1821–1894†Chronicles of Oklahoma 12 no. 1 1934: 97–102.<br /> 2 O.B. Campbell Vinita I.T.: The Story of a Frontier Town of the Cherokee Nation 1871–1907 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. 1909.<br /> 3 Willard Walker and James Sarbaugh “The Early History of the Cherokee Syllabary†Ethnohistory 40 no. 1 Winter 1993: 70–94. N.p. unknown
1952186766New York: Joseph F. Wagner Inc 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. 439p. A red cloth hardcover book in near-fine condition. Tiny closed tear at head of spine; otherwise clean and tight. Joseph F. Wagner, Inc hardcover
B9781019414521Hardback. New. hardcover
189765520Calcutta:: The Calcutta Auxiliary to the B.A.F. Bible Society 1897. Revised Edition; First edition with references. full blind-ruled sheep; all edges stained red. Some light scuffing to binding; a very nice copy. Large 8vo. Translated out of the Original Tongues by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries with Bengali Assistants. Title page printed in red and black. The Calcutta Auxiliary to the B.A.F. Bible Society, unknown
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1864188086Likely London: Society for Promoting Female Education in the East 1864. First collected edition covering the 1864 endeavours of Britain's first female-run missionary society and its first organization specifically for the training of women missionaries. The monthly issues include reports of work in the society's target areas of Hong Kong India and Egypt. The Society for Promoting Female Education in the East was founded in 1834 and focused initially on India. From the 1840s it expanded its efforts to include China and later the Middle East. The Female Missionary Intelligencer published monthly from 1854 carried pieces submitted by the society's operatives book reviews and engravings from drawings made in the field. Octavo. Frontispiece illustrations in text. Original blue sand-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt boards blocked in blind front cover with publisher's gilt vignette yellow coated endpapers edges sprinkled red. Pencilled 1880 ownership inscription on frontispiece verso. Binding worn including superficial splits to cloth at hinges mottling on rear cover from old damp-stain extending through to rear endpaper and last few leaves contents otherwise generally clean: very good. hardcover
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