Identifier: christianmission02denn (find matches)
Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Sociology, Christian
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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founded at Frere Town, opposite Mombasa, a freed-slave settlement, with a home where rescued slaves are cared for by the agents of the Settlements and homes Society. This asylum was established in 1874, at Africa. the recommendation of Sir Bartle Frere, after his visit to Zanzibar, in 1872, for the purpose of negotiating a treaty prohibiting the slave-trade. The Annual Report of the Church Missionary Society for 1897 records the interesting fact that Bishop Tucker had ordained at Frere Town the first liberated slave 1 The Christian, July 23, 1897, Letters from South Africa, No. 26. ^ The released slaves under our charge owe everythingto the mission—religion,education, instruction in a trade or profession. There are growing up many youngmen who are skilled handicraftsmen, who have been taught their trade by Indian mas-ters whilst they lived with us in the Mission. —Rev. G. M. Lawson (U. M. C. A.),Zanzibar. See illustration, Vol. I., p. 134. * Central Africa, February, 1896, p. 28.
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Native Deacons of the Universities Mission, Zanzibar. Mbweni School Girls, Zanzibar. All rescued from Slave-dhows. (Miss Berkeley in doorway, Miss Garrett on the right.) From the Slave-Dhow to Freedom in Christ. THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 323 to enter the ministry from the ranks of those educated at this settle-ment.^ The English Friends have just founded in Pemba a Mission forLiberated Slaves, and the EngHsh Methodist Free Churches, the German,and the Swedish missionaries have similar agencies on the mainland. At Kisserawe, near Dar-es-Salaam, the German East African Mis-sionary Society has a home for freed slaves, who are gathered fromsurrounding German territory. The Evangelical African League ofGermany has also selected a salubrious site in Usambara, East Africa,where it intends to locate a colony of freedmen. If we pass on toBritish Central Africa, we find the missions of the Established and FreeChurches of Scotland, and also the Universities Mission, that illumi-nating trium

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