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The selection and training of missionaries in the early nineteenth century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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Anyone who studies the techniques and strategy of early nineteenth-century missionaries and (even more) of early nineteenth-century missionary societies can hardly avoid gaining the impression that they suffered from a romantic casualness. It is as if zealous Christians of the period were so convinced that the Lord would guide and provide for the missionary that he really did not need much mundane preparation. Nineteenth-century missionaries often simply disappeared into bush, desert or jungle, stopped when they came to a site where there was food, water and heathen, and preached in whatever language happened to be available.
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- Studies in Church History , Volume 6: The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith , 1970 , pp. 131 - 135
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- Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1970
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Page 131 of note 1 Some of these portraits still survive and are kept in the society’s archives.
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