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Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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list.)The first visit made to Siam by any representative of our Church was forthe same purpose which had already brought other missionaries there—namely, to find access to the Chinese. In 1838, Rev. R. W. Orr spent amonth in Bangkok, and recommended to our Board this country as a fieldof effort, not only for the Chinese, but for the Siamese themselves. TheRev. W. P. Buell was sent to Bangkok in 1840. Remaining until 1844, anddoing good foundation work, he was compelled to leave the field, and itwas not until 1847 that the next missionaries reached Siam. From that timeuntil the present, continuous work has been maintained. For several yearsfollowing 1847 the foothold of the missionaries was precarious, as the kingso exerted his despotic influence upon the people that none of them could Note.—The marginal line used this year at the side of the Mission reports indicatesparagraphs of value in connection with the Mission Study course for 1919-20.Christianity and Human Conservation. 312
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SOUTH SIAM—BANGKOK 313 be induced to rent or sell any house to the missionaries. The first convertwas the Chinese teacher, Qua-Kieng, who was baptized in 1844 and died inthe faith in 1859. A good record is also given of the first native Siamese con-verted in 1859. Banc/kok was for many years the only center of missionary work. In1857 the mission was i)ermanently established in the section of the cityknown as Suinray. A school for boys was opened in 1852 which, in 1889, wasmerged into the Boys Christian Ilif/lt School. The Harriet House Schoolfor Girls was begun in 1874. Medical work was the chief means of gainingfavor. American missionary physicians have always been the trusted ad-visers of the king in introducing modern medical methods. In 1869 a print-ing press was sent out. It is now the most complete publishing establish-ment in Siam. The whole New Testament was first printed in 1843. When Petchaburi was first visited in 1843, every attempt for Christianitywas repulsed by the au

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