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This inspiring account of missionary work in Polynesia and New Guinea offers readers a unique glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of spreading Christianity in the Pacific region. With vivid descriptions of the people, places, and cultures encountered during four decades of missionary work, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Christian missions or the Pacific region more broadly. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Excerpt from Forty Years' Mission Work in Polynesia and New Guinea: From 1835 to 1875 The writer of the following pages has, for a length of time, employed such intervals of leisure as he could command from official and other necessary duties in placing on record the leading events of his missionary life, in the hope that their publication may, by the Divine blessing, contribute something towards advancing the interests of the great cause of Christian Missions. Whether, and to what extent, they are likely to t.i answer that end, others will be better able to judge than himself; and perhaps it hardly becomes him to express any opinion as to the ends the book is likely to answer. He ventures, however, to express a hope - First, That these records will, to some extent, interest and encourage the friends and supporters of Christian Missions, and probably stimulate some to increased liberality in contributing towards their support. Second, The writer further hopes that young disciples who are desirous of giving themselves to Missionary work will be interested and encouraged by what is here recorded, and that Missionary Students and young Missionaries will also find the work interesting and useful. 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.
Originally published in 1933, this book forms one of two volumes on the religious, mythical and cosmic structures of Central Polynesia.
Missionary Imperialists? examines the frontiers of empire in tropical Africa and the south-west Pacific in the Mid-Victorian era. Its central theme is the role played by British Protestant missionaries in imperial development and a continuous thread is the interaction between the missions and those in government, both London and in the colonies. An introductory chapter examines the main missionary societies involved in this study. This is followed by six detailed case studies, three from the south-west Pacific (the Pacific labor trade, Fiji, and New Guinea) and three from tropical Africa (the Gambia, Lagos and Yorubaland, and East Africa). The crucial importance of influential missionary supporters in Britain is noted as its missionary involvement in wider campaigning networks with other humanitarian groups. The book argues that where missionaries did aid imperial development it was largely incidental, an imperialism of result rather than an imperialism of intent to use the categories of Cain and Hopkins. It will be seen that although there were a few dedicated imperialists in the missionary ranks, and others gradually became convinced that the future of their particular mission and its people would be most secure under British jurisdiction, the majority had no such enthusiasm. Yet this did not mean that they had no effect on imperial development. Campaigns against both slavery and indentured labor inevitably raised the profile and influence of Europeans on the imperial frontier thus shifting a fragile balance in their direction. Most importantly, by their very presence on the frontiers of empire and as providers of education and European moral and spiritual values, missionaries became incidental and sometimes unintentional but nevertheless effective agents of imperialism.
Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, particularly British missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on their thinking.