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Identifier: spiritofmissions80epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ond smallerasylum near Bloemfontein, in theOrange Free State. There again apriest ministers from the city, a sisterconducts classes, and the bishop isever ready to visit. In Japan a priest of the Church,Father Hewlett, is now working aschaplain in Miss Riddells great LeperAsylum at Kumamoto. I am notsure whether we have work in themany leper refugees in India, but Ican hardly doubt it. Would that our Churchmen here inthis land realized more the work thatthose in communion with us are doingin the wide world! In your note onKorea and the school difficulty, doyou realize that we are affected, be-cause there is a Bishop of Korea, andan English Church Mission, longestablished, which is one with ourCommunion? Are we not absolutelyone with such a mission? I think thiscorrection as to The first recordedvisit, etc., the only case in historywhere lepers have been confirmedwill be useful. And have we so soonforgotten Father Damien, and othergreat Roman Catholic Missionaries? H. P. Bull, S.S.J.E.
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786 J;oto 0uv Cfmrcf) Came to (But Country II. HOW OUR CHURCH CAME TO MASSACHUSETTSBy Lydia Averell Hough I. Pilgrim and Puritan THE early days of Massachusettswere so different from those inVirginia that people are very aptto think the Anglican Church hadnothing to do with the founding ofthe northern colony. It is true thatthe Congregational system soon be-came almost universal in Massachu-setts, and that only those who sub-scribed to it could take any public partin religious or political affairs, butthere were settlements in Massachu-setts made by Church people, andthere were many individuals who didnot wish to separate from the Church,and many who even wished to con-tinue to use the Prayer Book. We must remember that at thistime the Puritans in England werenot outside the Church. They werea party in the Church, intent on re-forming it according to their ownideas. Only a small body of mencalled Brownists or Separatists,to which the Pilgrims belonged, haddefinitely withdrawn. Non-con

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