The Advance Guard of Missions
Author | : Clifford Grant Howell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Missionaries |
ISBN | : |
To trace some of these refreshing rills of influence, to survey a few of the battle-fields of individual victory, hoping thus to aid the reader in his own deep struggles and help to prepare him for final triumph, is the inspiration of this book. - 1. Marcus Whitman, Missionary Physician to the Indians. 2. John Eliot, Puritan Apostle to the American Indians. 3. The Mayhews, Five Generations of Missionries. 4. David Brainerd, Presbyterian Missionarry to the American Indians. 5. Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, the First Protestant Missionary to India. 6. Hans Egede, Pioneer Lutheran Missionary to Greenland. 7. Count Nicolas Ludwig Zinzendorf, Lutheran Evangelist ; later a Moravian Organizer. 8. The Wesleys, Vangard of a Mighty Movement. 9. Christian Frederick Schwartz, the Most Conspicuous Figure in India during the Eighteenth Century. 10. William Carey, Pioneer Baptist Missionary to India. 11. Henry Martyn, a Church of England Chaplain Missionary to India. 12. Robert Morrison, Pioneer Protestant Apostle to China. 13. Haystack Monument, Erected in Menory of a Prayer Meeting. 14. The Judsons, Pioneer American Missionaries to Burma. 15. Gordon Hall, Protestant Missionary to Western India. 16. Dr. John Scudder, First American Medical Missionary to Ceylon and India. 17. Alexander Duff, The Greatest Missionary Orator. 18. William Butler, Methodist Missionary of Two Continents. 19. Robert And Mary Moffat, Lights in Darkest Africa. 20. David Livingstone, Missionary Explorer. 21. William Taylor, Pioneer Methodist Self-Supporting Missionary. 22. John Williams, Triumphs in the Cannibal Isles. 23. John Gibson Oaton, Presbyterian Missionary to the New Hebrides. 24. Allen Gardiner, Beginning in the Neglected Continent. 25. Guido F. Verbeck, Builders in New Japan. 26. J. Hudson Taylor, Founder of the China Inland Mission. 27. William Miller, Converted Infidel and Baptist Evangelist