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Title: A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ces of distress-ing privation. A committee was formed ofgentlemen residing in New York and NowEngland, called the West India Missionary Com-tnittee, who received and forwarded contribu-tions for this mission, but without undertakingits support. In 1847 the mission was trans-ferred to the American Missionary Association,under whose care it remains. In 1843, themissionaries formed a Congregational Associa-tion, under the name of the Jamaica Congre-gational Association ; and the mission is nowknown in the island as the American Con-gregational Mission. • TABULAR V0fr. STATIONS. Brainerd, includiDg Mr. lPatiencea Bcbool.... J Good Hope (au out-sUUon) OborliQ Eliot Kock River (out-station).. Union, including Ilenni- \tage and Chesterfield j Pevon Ien lYovidence Brandon (out-station) Golden Vale Totals 1839 1853183918421853 1839 1839184418511851 433 716 For the purpose of leading the people totake more interest in the education of their chil-dren, and to accustom them to responsibility m;
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WEST INDIES. 771 in the conduct of the schools, the missionariesformed a vohintary school association in 1852.Two of the directors of each school are chosenfrom among- the people of the station, and as-sociated with the missionaries and teachers inthe general management of the school. Withthe results of this plan, after two years trial,the teachers are well pleased.—Rev. G. Whip-ple. Moravian Missions.—Danish W. I. Islands.—The first Moravian missionaries to the WestIndies, were Leonhard Dober, the potter, andDavid Nitschmann the carpenter. Their at-tention was first directed to this field by a ne-gro, who stated that he had a sister in theisland of St. Thomas, who, with many of herenslaved companions, desired to be instructedin the way of salvation, and earnestly imploredthe God of heaven to send some one who wascapable of giving them religious instruction.In the hope of being of some service to these be-nighted people, these young men, laymen, ofthe occupations above named, se

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