Home Missionary and American Pastor's Journal

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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Includes a section called: American pastor's journal.

Home Missionary and American Pastor's Journal

Home Missionary and American Pastor's Journal PDF Author:
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Includes a section called: American pastor's journal.

The Home Missionary and Pastor's Journal

The Home Missionary and Pastor's Journal PDF Author:
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Category : Home missions
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Includes a section called: Pastor's journal.

Home Missionary and American Pastor's Journal

Home Missionary and American Pastor's Journal PDF Author:
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Includes a section called: American pastor's journal.

The Home Missionary

The Home Missionary PDF Author:
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Category : Home missions
Languages : en
Pages : 902

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No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.

Nā Kahu

Nā Kahu PDF Author: Nancy J. Morris
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824877772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Tracing the lives of some two hundred Native Hawaiian teachers, preachers, pastors, and missionaries, Nā Kahu provides new historical perspectives of the indigenous ministry in Hawai‘i. These Christian emissaries were affiliated first with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and later with the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. By the mid-1850s literate and committed Hawaiians were sailing to far reaches of the Pacific to join worldwide missionary endeavors. Geographical locations ranged from remote mission stations in Hawai‘i, including the Hansen’s disease community at Kalaupapa; the Marquesan Islands; Micronesia; fur trade settlements in Northwest America; and the gold fields of California. In their reports and letters the pastors and missionaries pour out their hopes and discouragements, their psychological and physical pain, and details of their everyday lives. The first part of the book presents the biographies of nineteen young Hawaiians, studying as messengers of Christianity in the remote New England town of Cornwall, Connecticut, along with “heathen” from other lands. The second part—the core of the book—moves to Hawai‘i, tracing the careers of pastors and missionaries, as well as recognizing their intellectual and political endeavors. There is also a discussion of the educational institutions established to train an indigenous ministry and the gradual acceptance of ordained Hawaiians as equals to their western counterparts. Included in an appendix is the little-known story of Christian ali‘i, Hawaiian chiefs, both men and women, who contributed to the mission by lending their authority to the cause and by contributing land and labor for the construction of churches. The biographies reveal the views of pastors on events leading to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which brought about great divisions between the haole and Hawaiian ministry. Many Hawaiian pastors who sided with the new Provisional Government and then the Republic, were expelled by their own congregations loyal to the monarchy. During the closing years of the century, alternate forms of Christianity emerged, and those pastors drawn to these syncretic faiths add their perspectives to the book. Perhaps the most illuminating biographies are those in which the pastors give voice to a faith that blends traditional Hawaiian values with an emerging ecumenical Christianity.

Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper Files in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper Files in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin PDF Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher: Madison : The Society
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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The German Church on the American Frontier

The German Church on the American Frontier PDF Author: Carl E. Schneider
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606082183
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 653

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Since its original release in 1939, Carl Schneider's The German Church on the American Frontier has been the premier published resource on the unique "Evangelischer Kirchenverein des Westens" (Evangelical Church Society of the West), 1840-66, which later assumed a wider denominational identity as the German Evangelical Synod of North America, the church of the Niebuhr family. Known eventually as the Evangelical Synod of North America, the group's ecumenical and irenic heritage contributed to mergers that resulted in the Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1934-1957, and thereafter in the United Church of Christ.

Frontier Mission

Frontier Mission PDF Author: Walter Brownlow Posey
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813164001
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Religion is viewed here as the great cultural force which introduced and preserved civilization in the era of westward expansion from 1776 to the eve of the Civil War. In this first major study of religion in the South, Mr. Posey surveys the work of the seven chief denominations—Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ, Cumberland Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Episcopal—as they developed in the frontier region that now comprises the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri. The great challenges faced by the churches, Mr. Posey believes, were, first, the barbarism continually threatening a people isolated in a savage wilderness and, second, the materialism likely to engross minds preoccupied with the hard necessities of frontier survival. Many frontiersmen who had wandered across the mountains to escape the trammels and restrictions of an established society were distrustful of traditional religion, and some forgot their inherited beliefs entirely. To overcome these attitudes demanded new approaches. As organizations the churches faced great obstacles in attempting to minister to the folk on the moving frontier. One early answer was the camp meeting, and many of its features—an emphasis upon fervid emotion and individualism and the active participation and use of untrained people in religious services—continued as dominant elements in frontier religion. Indeed, those churches flexible enough to make use of these appeals were the most successful in spreading their beliefs. But inherent in the emotion and individualism was the danger of fragmentation, a danger most tragically evident when the slavery controversy split most southern denominations from their northern brethren. In education the churches fared better; even those that were at first skeptical of its benefits were by the time of the Civil War actively engaged in its support. But overall, the southern churches were hampered by too little money for the support of priests and preachers, too little communication between isolated congregations, and too little regard for service to the community. At the center of the churches' work—the care of congregations, the missions to the Indians and the Negroes, and the founding of educational institutions—were the frontier ministers. Mr. Posey pictures these men—stern and hard but full of zeal—as performing a stupendous task in their efforts to build and maintain spiritual life on the southern frontier.

Proceedings of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1848

Proceedings of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1848 PDF Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368733567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1848.

Proceedings of the New York Historical Society

Proceedings of the New York Historical Society PDF Author: New-York Historical Society
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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