On Africa's lands
Subtitle: the forgotten stories of two Lincoln-educated missionaries in Liberia
By: edited by Cheryl Renée Gooch
Contributors: Amos, Thomas Henry, 1825-1869; Gooch, Cheryl Renée
Publisher: Lincoln University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780615980904
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Liberia Mission; Missionaries; Missions; Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Lincoln University (Pa.); History; African Americans; Biography; Colonization
Description: Highlights pivotal events in the lives of the Amos brothers, who were among the first graduates of Lincoln University in the late 1850s, and who, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., nurtured and fulfilled dreams of missionary service in Liberia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-159).
Table of contents: title: The institution founded upon prayer; title: By divine providence : the rhetoric and realities of missionary work, 1859-1861; title: "One double-barrel gun for Rev. Thos. H. Amos" 1862; title: "We did well to get away without personal injury" 1863; title: "This is my resignation from all connection with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions" 1863-1864; title: "We need not expect to get good health in this country" 1863-1869; title: The night is far spent, the day is at hand, Romans 13:12.