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• Acknowledgments Foreword List of Illustrations Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 From Eton to China (1860-1885)
• 2 Imperial China: Frequent Danger and the Power of the Holy Spirit (1885-1888)
• 3 Mysterious Tibet: The Land "in Gross Darkness with Hardly a Gleam of Light" (1888-1900)
• 4 Life in England, "for China and Tibet, and for Worldwide Revival, " Prayer and Activism between Leaving China and Discovering Pentecostalism (1900-1907)
• 5 Embracing and Leading Early British Pentecostalism (1908-1910)
• 6 A Vision Realised, "The Tribes Abound and Are Clamouring for the Gospel, " Polhill and the Pmu at the Tibetan Border (1910-1914)
• Appendix 1 The Testimony of Wang Tsuan Yi (Uang-Ts'Ong-I)
• Appendix 2 Full Text of the "Memorandum of Agreement between the China Inland Mission and the Tibetan Band" 1896
• Bibliography Index.
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The full significance of Cecil Henry Polhill (1860-1938), the wealthy squire of Howbury Hall, is known to few, yet he was one of the founding fathers of the Pentecostal-Charismatic tradition in Britain, and his impact and legacy stretch far beyond British shores to North America, the Far East and elsewhere. In Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist John Usher comprehensively connects Polhill's early life and former experiences as an Evangelical Anglican missionary in China, a member of the Cambridge Seven, with his time as a pioneer of early Pentecostalism, and in doing so reveals a much more richly contoured and multifaceted picture of the development of early Pentecostalism than previously achieved.
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Biography of William Carey, Baptist missionary from England in India; includes church history of Northeastern India.

• Preface. Introduction: Missionary Ancestors. Autobiography: 'An Honest Tale Speeds Best'-- Providence and Culture in Samoa-- Big Men and the Pioneer Mission to the Bismarck Archipelago-- 'Murderous and Vile Cannibals'-- Carpe Diem-- Theology and Anthropology-- Gifts, Curios and Souls. Conclusion: Brown Remembered and Forgotten. Endnotes. Bibliography.
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Combining 'the gathering of artefacts with the gathering of souls', George Brown was a key figure in the Christian, and especially the Wesleyan Methodist, history of nineteenth-century Oceania. Using his life as a case study, Helen Bethea Gardner examines the role of Christian missionaries in the Pacific Islands. Brown's career (1860-1908) spanned one of the most tumultuous political periods in the South Pacific, as one by one islands were colonised by imperial nations. He was one of the most politically engaged of all missionaries, encouraging colonial rule in the Pacific by America, Britain, Germany and, eventually, Australia and New Zealand. Originally from the north of England, he worked as a missionary in Samoa from 1860, moving to the Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in 1875. From the 1880s until his retirement in 1907, he worked in Sydney as the general secretary of the Australasian Methodist Overseas Mission. "Gathering for God" examines Brown's missionary letters, journals and journalism, exploring how he attracted Pacific Islanders to Christian teachings, analysing his leadership during an armed attack on New Britain villages accused of cannibalism, and looking at his work in the new discipline of anthropology. He was a major collector of artefacts (his collection is now in the Osaka Museum) and photographer of Pacific peoples (his collection is in the Australian Museum).
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In 1842 at York Factory, the English-born missionary James Evans built a lightweight tin canoe that glittered and shone in the sunlight. Wherever he went, Native peoples called the canoe his 'Shining Island' or 'His Island of Light'. This book chronicles important events in the life of the extraordinary Methodist missionary, James Evans (1801-1846). It was Evans who created a written alphabet in native languages that remains in use to the present time. Truly the first printer/publisher in the Canadian Northwest, his story is one of incredible courage, perseverance and unwavering faith.
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• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; Credits.

In 1842 at York Factory, the English-born missionary James Evans built a lightweight tin canoe that glittered and shone in the sunlight. Wherever he went, Native peoples called the canoe his "Shining Island" or "His Island of Light."Travels in the Shining Island chronicles important events in the life of the extraordinary Methodist missionary, James Evans (1801-1846). It was Evans who created a written alphabet in native languages that remains in use to the present time. Truly the first printer/publisher in the Canadian Northwest, his story is one of incredible courage, perseverance and unwave.