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The Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at home and Abroad. January 1 1888

1888

We may measure his appreciation of them by imagining the light which would be thrown on the history of the Christianisation of England of the Mediaeval Church or the Reformation if we had in addition to the extant books and documents a monthly or even annual record of current events based on and quoting the words of the actual workers and supplied with a fulness Which the chronicler of earl [...] pate was brought prominently before us by the Centenary and we may note that of the seventy-five sees now existing but twenty-nine were founded before this magazine which has recorded the foundation of the remaining forty-six and told of the needs growing so as to demand the extension of the Episcopate and of the work in which the Bishops have been the master-workmen. [...] The Bishop of London lately used these words : The activity of work in every diocese seems to increase with the number of the dioceses and the Church recognises the importance of the work to be done as the magnitude of what is done already expands before our eyes." The same number of the Mission Field which draws attention to these words contains an account of the formation of the new diocese [...] As the Report mentions the future of the Karen Church greatly depends upon the extension of female education." In the Karen vernacular schools the question of teacing English has been an open one for some years ; now it is taught thoroughly in the Anglo-vernacular School up to what would be the 7th and 8th standards at home and the result is considered to be very satifactory ; one of the [...] W. E. Jones a new era of usefulness has dawned on the Karen Church and that he will send forth men charged with Pentecostal fire to renew the dying flame in the hearts of the wavering and to kindle once and for ever the sacred flame of God's Holy Spirit on the neglected altars of the hearts of the heathen multitudes who swarm round the portals of our Church eager to catch the merest crumbs th
philosophy religion
Pages
45
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120317
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Our Past Our Hopes and Aims
1-4 unknown view
The Spiritual Counterpart to Imperial Destiny
5-9 unknown view
The Mission of Tounghoo Upper Burmah
10-15 unknown view
Japan
16-19 unknown view
The Bishop Of Lincoln On Mohammedanism
19-19 unknown view
Madagascar
20-24 unknown view
Keiskamma Hoek
25-28 unknown view
Mauritius
29-34 unknown view
The Henry Martyn Memorial Hall at Cambridge
35-36 unknown view
The Children’s Corner
37-39 unknown view
Notes of the Month
39-40 unknown view

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