A Manual of Modern Missions; Containing Historical and Statistical Accounts of the Protestant Missionary Societies of America, Great Britain and the (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...far more than the Committee have been able to entertain. The income for 1887, from donations and subscriptions, was 638, from students' payments and a small investment, 527. AUXILIARY AND MISCELLANEOUS SOCIETIES. Only a brief notice can be given here of some among the many Societies which have from time to time been formed as aids to the work of the larger missionary institutions. In some cases these Societies have been formed to supply a special need; in others they are the expression of individual devotedness and zeal. Our own times have witnessed many such efforts; and in almost every part of the professed Church of Christ there are men and women, detached from the main body of workers, and unsupported by ecclesiastical organizations, who are labouring after their own methods. The Christian Faith Society. This organisation stands foremost in point of time; its full title is The Incorporated Society for Advancing the Christian Faith in the British West Indian Islands and elsewhere, and in the Mauritius. The origin and aims of the Society may be compared with those of the New England Company, noticed at the beginning of this volume. The Hon. Robert Boyle, by his will in 1696, directed the residue of his personal estate to be laid out by his executors, recommending them to lay out the greater part thereof' for the Advancement or Propagation of the Christian Religion amongst Infidels.'1 An estate was accordingly purchased at Brafferton, Yorkshire, so that the income might be for ever applied to the advancement of the Christian religion. Till the American war the rents were remitted to the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, for the education of Indian children. After the conclusion of the war, Dr. Porteous, Bishop of London, obtained...