Adventuring for Christ
Subtitle: Lutheran missionary leaders
By: by Ira Oliver Nothstein
Publisher: United Lutheran publication house
Published: 1932
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Lutheran Church; Missions; Missionaries
Notes: "Sources": p. 11-12.
Table of contents: title: Martin Luther, the first Lutheran missionary; title: Primus Truber, missionary to the Croats and Wends; title: The Vadstena monks and the Lapps; title: Peter Heyling, first Lutheran missionary to Abyssinia; title: John Campanius, first Lutheran missionary to the American Indians; title: Justinian Ernst von Weltz, first Lutheran missionary to South America; title: The fruits of a hero's death; the modern missionary era begins; title: Frederick IV, royal protector and organizer of missions; title: Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, founder of Protestant missionary work in India; title: Hans Poulse Egede, the apostle of Greenland; title: Thomas von Westen, apostle to the Finns and Laplanders; title: Benjamin Schultze, founder of the Madras Mission; title: Sockanada-Aaron, first native Lutheran pastor in India; title: Johann Caspar Stoever, a circuit rider of colonial days; title: Christian Frederick Schwartz, missionary "king-priest" of South India; title: Rajanaiken, an Indian Cornelius; title: Christian Wilhelm Gericke, hero of Cudalore; title: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, patriarch of the Lutherans in America; title: John Frederick Oberlin, a home missionary hero; title: John Stauch and other missionary heroes of the West; title: Samuel Gobat, bishop of Jerusalem; title: Karl F.A. Gützlaff, apostle to China; title: Karl T.E. Rhenius, a mighty evangelist of India; title: John C.F. Heyer, a campaigner for souls; title: Johann Heinrich Wichern, the father of the Inner Mission; title: John Ludwig Krapf, missionary and explorer in Africa; title: Ludwig Schneller, apostle to the Arabs; title: Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, the prisoner who became a great missionary; title: John Henry Harpster, a good soldier of Jesus Christ; title: David A. Day, a friend of the Africans; title: Onesimus Nesib, apostle to the Gallas; title: Anna Sarah Kugler, a lover of India's women.