The Foreign Missionary Enterprise At Home

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.

Excerpt from The Missionary Enterprise: A Concise History of Its Objects, Methods and Extension In view of all these facts, it becomes evident that not only did nearly every page of the earlier book need alteration, but in some respects the plan must be changed. The development of the missionary idea at home, and its execution abroad, have become so interlaced, that they cannot be dissociated. The churches influence the mis sions, but still more do the missions influence the churches. The same general principles, and much the same methods operate in both. If Evangelism is correctly defined as everything that helps to bring men to Christ, and Education as everything that builds men up in Christ, then both find their full manifestation in the organized church, whether native to America or Japan, to England or India, to Germany or Africa. Foreign missions give place to the Missionary Enterprise, the extension depart ment of the Kingdom of God. There are therefore two parts, instead of three: the first outlining the general history, its movement, princi ples and methods; the second surveying the conditions, problems and progress in different sections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A comprehensive guide-from both chronological and a topical perspective-to a broad, diverse, deeply rooted, and influential religious tradition.

An in depth study of the significance of Empire to Scots in the 19th Century

How providential history—the conviction that God is an active agent in human history—has shaped the American historical imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. By 1897, Whitman was a national hero, celebrated in textbooks, monuments, and historical scholarship as the “Savior of Oregon.” But his fame was based on a tall tale—one that was about to be exposed. Sarah Koenig traces the rise and fall of Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman’s legend, revealing two patterns in the development of American history. On the one hand is providential history, marked by the conviction that God is an active agent in human history and that historical work can reveal patterns of divine will. On the other hand is objective history, which arose from the efforts of Catholics and other racial and religious outsiders to resist providentialists’ pejorative descriptions of non†‘Protestants and nonwhites. Koenig examines how these competing visions continue to shape understandings of the American past and the nature of historical truth.