Identifier: historyofworldsu07helm (find matches)
Title: The history of the world; a survey of a man's record
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Helmolt, Hans F. (Hans Ferdinand), 1865-1929 Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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al London Missionary Society, founded in 1795, which sent thevery next year twenty-nine messengers of the gospel to the South Sea Islands, wasfollowed during the whole century by a series of similar societies in Scotland, theNetherlands, America, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. In Ger-man-speaking countries the most important were the institutions in Basle (1815),Berlin (1823), Barmen (1828), Bremen (1836, first in Hamburg),—all of these work-ing in a unionist spirit, while that in Leipzig ffrom 1836-1848 in Dresden) andthat in Hermannsburg (1849) stood on the basis of the Lutheran creed. Even themore independent party took a share in the work by means of the UniversalEvangelical-Protestant Missionary Society, founded at Weimar on June 4 and5, 1884. The successes attained may be shown by the following figures: In thelast twenty-five years the number of Evangelical missionaries has increased fromsome 2,200 to some 6,000; the number of Evangelical Christians won from the
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western ChrisUauU^ HISTORY OF THE WORLD 357 heathen form roughly 1,500,000 to nearly 4,000,000 ; now some 100,000 heathenare annually converted to Evangelical Christianity. Coincidently a complete revul-sion of opinion has taken place as regards these efforts. The work was at firstundertaken by independent societies. The official Church either stood completelyaloof or was an opponent: those who were still further from a positive Christianitypoured, as a rule, merely ridicule on it. Now, on the contrary, the ecclesiasticalauthorities tried to promote these efforts and to make it, if possible, the work oftheir whole body. And, as the English did long ago, the German colonial policyhas learnt to value highly the effects on civilisation, intellect, and morality whichthe energy of the missionaries exercises in heathen countries far outside the circlesof the baptised converts. At the threshold of the twentieth century the most important spheres of thismissionary activity and labour present

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