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Female Missionaries. There were several outstanding female missionaries
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BEGINNINGS The father of the modern missionary movement was William Carey 2.1.
William Carey. He was originally a Baptist Minister in a small village in England, but God laid on his heart a vision of taking the Gospel to the world. He was inspired by reading of the Moravians, the life of David Brainerd and Jonathan Edwards and so he wrote a tract in 1792 and that had the same effect which Martin Luther’s 95 Theses had on the church. Then he preached where ever he could on missions, his text always Isaiah 54:2-3. His great motto all his life was “Attempt great things from God” In September 1793 he went to India. He lay down five missionary principles which cannot be improved upon: a) b) c) d) e)
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Preach the gospel Distribution of the Bible in the language of the people. In thirty years he translated 6 Bibles, 23 New Testaments and some of the Scriptures into ten languages. Establish a church He did this in a place called Serampore Deep study of the religious background and thoughts of the people. You must train the local population to take over as soon as possible. By 1851 there were 399 missionaries with him and 91,000 converts. He has been called the father of modern missions.
ENDING In the year 1853 Hudson Taylor went to China and did an unbelievable work for God. James Hepburn went to Japan in 1859. Then across in the South Pacific there was John Williams and John Payton and then there was Judson who went to Burma and then there was David Livingstone, Robert Moffat and van der Kemp who came to Africa. CONCLUSION Towards the latter part of the 19th Century certain events affected missions, the one event was the Russian Revolution in 1917 which led to the rise of communism and secondly nationalism in the third world took place especially in South America and Africa and thirdly liberal theology.
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