Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples
Subtitle: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad
Contributors: Alvyn Austin (Editor); Jamie S. Scott (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: October 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780802037848
Subjects: Christian mission & evangelism; Cultural studies; Missionaries; History; History - General History; History: World; Canada; Missions & Missionary Work; Canada - General; History / Canada; Christian Ministry - Missions; Missions, Canadian
First sentence: In a seminal statement of the policy which dominated the nineteenth-century evangelizing of the Christian Missionary Society (CMS), Henry Venn, the society's chief secretary in its formative years, 1841-72, couches his celebrated 'three-self' principles in these terms: If the elementary principles of self-support and self-government and self-extension be thus sown with the seed of the Gospel, we may hope to see the healthy growth and expansion of the Native Church, when the Spirit is poured down from on high, as the flowers of the fertile field multiply under the showers and warmth of summer.