Euthanasia of a Mission
Subtitle: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: June 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780275975708
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Christian mission & evangelism; History of religion; c 1800 to c 1900; Religion - Church Life; Religion; Africa; Sierra Leone; Christian Ministry - Missions; Comparative Religion; Ethnic Studies - General; Religion / General; Christianity - Anglican; 1796-1873; Church history; History; Missions; Venn, Henry,
First sentence: The leaven of Christianity has been introduced in different directions amidst the dense masses of the heathen: often hidden, still, in that hidden state, it is at work where the eye cannot trace it; until at length the mysterious process which had been going forward evidences itself..the torpid mass is agitated...[and] so from amidst the monotonous waste of heathenism Christian congregations rise to view, more beautiful to the mind of the believer than the most lively of the Polynesian isles to the eye of men....1