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Title: Historical sketches of the foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church : from the origin of each to the end of the year 1880, with a map of each mission
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reid, J. M. (John Morrison), 1820-1896
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: New York : Phillips & Hunt
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ward the great want ofthe Mission has been devoted and able men to re-enforce the work. In-deed, for a great number of years the Mission had shown an increasinglack of enterprise. It shared in this respect with the general economicalcondition of the colony, as developed in the last few years. A state ofdecadence seemed to prevail. The Republic has been oppressed withforeign debt, chiefly owed to Great Britain, which still imperils its exist-ence. In order to develop a spirit of self-support in our Churches themissionary appropriation has been gradually reduced. Once no. foreignmission received so much, the sum granted in one year, 1854, beingS37.233. In 1876 less than §8.000 was granted, $5.500 was granted for1879, and the principal Churches were left entirely without aid. Anxiety concerning the state of the Mission and the hope of inaugu-rating some improvement, occasioned another episcopal visitation, and • He educated many Liberians who have become prominent in Church and State.
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BC raiLLir* * acKT LIBERIA MISSION. J Bishop Gilbert Haven went out in 1876. He found that the precedingyear had been one of spiritual revival, and a large increase of membershipwas reported at the Conference over which he presided. Our Church ap-peared to be really more prosperous than any other denomination in theRepublic. There were good church buildings at Monrovia, Bassa, Sinoe,and Cape Palmas. and good school-buildings, one at Monrovia and oneat Cape Palmas. The Conference, however, was composed almost entire-ly of elderly men, which arose from the paucity of schools for the train-ing of youth. Bishop Haven effectively urged a reformation in the matterof self-support, and improvement was manifest in subsequent Conferencereports. New enterprise in extending the mission work into the interiorwas also urged. Messrs. Pitman and Blyden, with others, set out in June,1877, on a tour of inspection, visiting Boporo, the capital of the Boatswainscountry. They found Mohammedanism prevailinhistoricalsketch00reid

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