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The seemingly little-known Catholic priest George Tuckwell was a convert who spent a significant part of his priestly ministry in Auckland and Sydney. His story is an interesting example of [...]

The Baptists of the northern United States arrived in Mexico shortly before the Southern Baptists. They had not yet formed as a convention, a step they would take in 1907. But they had a vibrant missionary society, and they had well organized schools to train women for missions. (1), Susan Jones and the Baptist Missionary Training School The Baptist Missionary Training School was established September 5, 1881, in Chicago by the Women's Baptist Home Missionary Society. The rationale for [...]

Much of what has been written on the life of Henrietta Hall Shuck, the first American female missionary to China, functions as little more than hagiography. (1) ********** Some scholars [...]

In 1908, his twenty-third year as missionary to Korea, Horace Grant Underwood wrote The Call of Korea. For Underwood, the call was as urgent as ever. In his introduction, A. [...]

In the late nineteenth century, China's Hunan Province was considered one of the country's toughest mission fields. With its deeply entrenched Confucianism and widespread xenophobia, Hunan was a source of [...]

The year 2012 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the origins of the U. S. foreign missionary movement. Much attention was rightly paid to Adoniram Judson, the most famous member [...]

The most important legacy of my grandfather Charles W. Forman is the Forman Christian College, a flourishing coeducational institution with over 6,300 students in Lahore, Pakistan. Among its graduates the [...]

Abel Bingham was a Baptist missionary who served in New York from 1821-1828, and in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, from 1828-1855. During that time, he had a profound impact on [...]

Apolo Kivebulaya--the 'Pathfinder,' 'Greatheart of Africa,' 'Apostle of the Pygmies,' and 'African Saint' --was, as these the titles of some of his biographies suggest, much admired by a British missionary [...]

Theodor Grentrup of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) planted seeds of twentieth-century Catholic missionary research and cultivated them with so much passion and intellectual engagement that we continue [...]

J. C. Heinrich (1884-1945) is a missionary whose work and legacy have gone largely unnoticed by mission scholars. He was a member of the Sialkot Mission of the United Presbyterian [...]

Mary Josephine Rogers, who became Mother Mary Joseph, founder of the Maryknoll Sisters, was one of the most extraordinary women in mission of the twentieth century. I refer the readers [...]

One of the most unusual and controversial missionaries with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) was an Irishman named Constantine Scollen. Among his many accomplishments are that he was the [...]

Helene de Chappotin, born May 21, 1839, in Nantes, France, was the youngest child of an upper-class Catholic family. She enjoyed a happy childhood with her siblings and first cousins. [...]

George Leslie Mackay (1844-1901) was among the most remarkable missionaries of the late Victorian era. During his three decades in Taiwan (1871-1901), he received little substantive assistance from other Canadian [...]

Ta-Teh Hsiu-Shih (1905-82), (1) later named Thaddeus Yang An-Jan and hereafter referred to by his shortened pen name, Thaddeus Yang, was one of the first indigenous priestly vocations for the [...]

Philip Beach Sullivan (1898-1957) was part of a trend toward professionalization among the China Christian colleges during the 1920s. The institutions, most of them originally founded as aids to evangelism, [...]

'In my early years in Changchow there were still some of Dr. Fahmy's students in practice in the town, and plenty of people, patients and church members, who remembered him [...]

On March 6, 1865, Franz Mayr was born to Georg and Maria Mayr, farmers in the tiny village of Obernussdorf in the mountainous Austrian Tyrol. Mayr suffered from kyphoscoliosis, a [...]

The Congregation of Holy Cross, a Roman Catholic religious order established in 1837 in France, provided missionaries to foreign lands almost from the outset. In 1840, religious were sent to [...]

James W. C. Dougall was born on April 8, 1896, in the town of Auchterarder in Perthshire, Scotland. (1) He grew up in a strongly Christian home. His mother was [...]

Jacob A. Loewen was a missionary, anthropologist, translator, and writer. As a young boy in a Mennonite village in the USSR, Jacob Loewen could not in his wildest dreams have [...]

English missionaries Lee and Susannah Compere came to the area of what is now Alabama in 1822, then spent a decade caught up in the tensions between white, black, and [...]

The Cherokees probably arrived in what are now Arkansas and Oklahoma as permanent residents in the 1780s. By 1809, an estimated one thousand Cherokees lived west of the Mississippi, having [...]

Although only a minor prophet in the record of Anglican mission history, Francis Thomas McDougall (1817-86) deserves more than honorable mention in the continuing assessment of nineteenth-century European missionary attitudes. [...]

The missionary career of Olav Guttorm Myklebust (1905-2001) began in South Africa. There he spent eight years together with his wife, most of the time as principal of the Umpumulo [...]

Born into slavery on March 15, 1843, in Noxubee County, Mississippi, to Indiana Dixon, Richard Henry Boyd was given the name Dick Gray. He was named Dick after his maternal [...]

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the name of Rudolf Lechler (1824-1908) became almost synonymous with the Basel Hakka Mission in Guangdong, China. Unlike most Protestant missionaries in [...]

John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), born in 1592 at Uhersky Brod in eastern Moravia in the Kingdom of Bohemia, was the youngest of five children born to Anna and [...]

In the spring of 1834, as he neared the end of his first tour of Protestant missions in India, Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853) declared, 'My earnest desire is to re-model [...]

The 1913 centennial report of the American Marathi Mission in India included a large photo with the caption 'Samuel B. Fairbank, D.D., Missionary, 1846-1898. Evangelist, Writer, Translator, Editor, Scientist, Agriculturist.' [...]

John Duncan was born in 1796 in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, to parents who were members of the Associate Presbytery, or Secession Church. When John was nine years old, he entered [...]

In the nineteenth century, Western decorum dictated that the proper place for a woman was in the home, where she would either be married or assisting in caring for a [...]

Narratives recounting the efforts to convert Indians were ubiquitous in the eighteenth century. (1) Missionary tracts, as Hilary Wyss terms such texts, were published by missionary societies, such as the [...]

A sociopolitical interpretation is presented on the canonization of Catholic missionary Pierre Chanel, who attempted to convert indigenous societies of Futuna during the mid-1800s. The chronology covers Chanel's death as an outcome of indigenous resistance, and emphasizes the role this played in securing Chanel's precedence over other missionaries in region for the canonization process.

Alonso Sanchez, Jesuit Broker A basic problem in comparative analyses of historical interactions is an inevitable focus on large social groups and structures. The macro scale of such studies often [...]

The chapter discusses the life of Hollis A. Wilbur and his wife and children during his post in the Foreign Department of the International Committee Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Kobe, Japan. Topics include the family's arrival in Japan, work with the YMCA, American and Japanese friends, summer holidays, a forced sick leave back to the United States, and finally an invitation from the National Committee of China for Wilbur to head the City Division of the Chinese National Committee.

The chapter describes Hollis A. and Mary Wilbur's six years in Dayton, Ohio. Topics include Hollis's role as general secretary for a building fund for the Dayton Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Other topics include the birth of three children and his acceptance of a foreign post in Kobe, Japan in Nov 1909.

The article is an account of Hollis Wilbur's life during his five years of college at Ohio Weslyan University. Topics include his plan to study biology, participation in the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), membership in the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon in addition to the religious influence of his professors.

The chapter describes the courtship and marriage of Hollis A. Wilbur to Mary Matteson on August 28, 1901 in Seville, Ohio. Other topics include their honeymoon in Muskoka lakes, and their first home in Columbus, Ohio.

The chapter discusses Hollis A. Wilbur's involvement with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) beginning in 1896 as the first State Student Secretary for Ohio. His work included visiting other student associations to help them organize and plan at the start of the academic year.

The article is part of an autobiography by Hollis A. Wilbur which discusses his parents, siblings, home-life, and school-life when he was a young boy. The events are linked to the formation of his religious consciousness.

Over the last fifty years, the usefulness of the terms 'Reformation and Counter Reformation has been examined by historians, who point to the over-simplification inherent in the words' explicit binary [...]

Harry Strachan and Susan Beamish Strachan, his wife, were the innovative missionary couple who founded the Latin America Mission (LAM) on July 24, 1921. Harry (1872-1945) was born of Scottish [...]

Intelligent, vigorous, visionary, and dedicated to his calling, Adoniram Judson was for several generations of American Protestants the first among American overseas missionaries. His premier standing was earned by the [...]