MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES: HISTORICALLY VIEWED FROM THEIR COMMENCEMENT. BY JOSEPH KINGSMILL, CHAPLAIN OF PENTONVILLE PRISON. M.A., "Missionary enterprise is the very chivalry of Christianity." Commerce alone will not make a nation great and happy. England has become great LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1853. ? TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHICHESTER, PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, — ༔ ས ས ་ ། AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM AND DUTIFUL ATTACHMENT, AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF SERVICE UNDER HIS LORDSHIP, AND OF HUMBLE CO-OPERATION IN WORKS OF FAITH AND CHARITY, This Volume, THE RESULT OF OCCASIONAL EFFORTS TO RELIEVE HIS MIND FROM THE UNDUE PRESSURE OF CONTINUOUS THOUGHT ON THE ONE PAINFUL SUBJECT OF HIS OWN PECULIAR MISSION, AND AT SOME HUMBLE MEASURE, THE PROGRESS OF PURE CHRISTIANITY IN THE WORLD, IS, WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S KIND PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. Missions of the first Church in Judæa, Galilee, and Samaria-St. James-St. John-St. Peter-The question of Peter's ever Early introduction of the Gospel-Subjugation of the British Gothic Architecture, the glory of the Middle Ages, of Pagan origin-Methods adopted by the Church of those Ages for the Propagation of the Gospel-The Church's treatment of the 277177 |
