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Title: Historical sketches of the foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church : from the origin of each to the end of the year 1880, with a map of each mission
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reid, J. M. (John Morrison), 1820-1896
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: New York : Phillips & Hunt
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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Observations on Bulgarian Affairs, by the Marquis ofBath. i2mo, pp. 118. London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. A series of articlesby An Eastern Statesman in the Contemporary Review of 1879 and Feb-uary, 1880. The Principality of Bulgaria, in the Christian Advocate, May15, 1879. Appletons Annual Cyclopedia, 1S78, 1879, 1880, 1881 ; article, Bulgaria. The history of the vi^ork of the American Board in the Turkish Empire ex-tends over fifty years, and is a record of the most unyielding perseveranceagainst obstacles, of prudent management, and very substantial success. Theyhave established a noble system of graded schools and colleges. For an accountof this work see History of the Missions of the American Board to the OiientalChurches, by Rufus Anderson, LL.D. 2 vols., i2mo, 1872; The Americansin Turkey, article in the British Quarterly Review, January, 187S ; TheAmerican Educational System in Turkey, in the Christian Advocate, May8, 1879; Annual Reports of the Board, and Missionary Herald.
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The Italy Mission. As early as 1832, Charles Elliot, D.D., began to advocate the establish-ment, on the part of our Church, of a Mission to Italy ; and again in1850, before the public and with official personages in the Church, he be-came specially urgent for the project. In 1867, about a year before hisdeath, he addressed a letter to his son-in-law, Dr. L. M. Vernon, thenPresident of St. Charles College, St. Charles, Missouri, suggesting to thelatter a personal devotion to the work. All this seems to have been in a spirit of prophecy. Rev. Gilbert (afterward Bishop) Haven had forsome years, with others, joined heartily in advocacy of this movement, and,as chairman of a committee from the Board of Managers to consider thissubject, he reported in favor of such a Mission in February, 1870, and inSeptember a resolution was passed by the Board adopting the project,inaccordance with the suggestion originally made by the General Committeein November, 1869. In the following March, (1871,) Dr

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