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Title: The martyrs of Blantyre : Henry Henderson, Dr. John Bowie (and) Robert Cleland : a chapter from the story of missions in central Africa
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Robertson, William
Subjects: Henderson, Henry, 1843-1891 Bowie, John, 1858-1891 Cleland, Robert, 1857-1890 Church of Scotland Missions
Publisher: London : J. Nisbet
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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theirs! But what must it have been to be present at theservice of Holy Communion on the first Sunday inthe new church, to feel the touch of the impressivestillness and taste the joy of its worship, and join thecompany that sat down together at the Holy Table—not only the missionary and the traveller and theexplorer and the trader, but—most blessed of all—■thirty of these native Africans, humble Christian com-municants in the Church of God, sitting down togetherwith those who came bringing them the glad tidingsin the fellowship of the one faith and the one Lord andRedeemer! Ay ! and more also. It was for this thatHenry Henderson, John Bowie, and Eobert Clelandhad laboured and died. Blessed dead! They restfrom their labours and their works do follow them.Surely they too, in their glorified rest, had a share inthe joy of that day of reaping, when the fruits of theirtoil were seen. Blessed be God for the communion ofsaints in heaven and on earth! IV. ^cnrg Pfmtierscn, THE PIONEER.
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MR. AND MRS. HENUERSON. IV. HENRY HENDERSON. Henry Henderson was a son of the Manse, his fatherbeing the late Rev. Dr. Henderson of Kinclaven, inPerthshire, where he was born in 1843. ^^^ oldchurch and Manse stand in a charming rural spotclose by the Tay, without even a village near, so thathis earliest impressions of Gods great world weregathered from a beautiful picture of j&eld and woodand river, with the blue hills behind,—the stillnessunbroken by the roar of the city, and Gods clear skyundimmed by any cloud of earthly smoke. It was nowonder that all his life he loved to be where Naturesbook was open to him, and that he could never feel athome among the restraints of city life. He received the godly and hardy upbringing whichso often has made the sons of the Manse the men theyare. His father, who was somewhat of the sternertype of the old school, taught his sons himself tillthey were fourteen, and then sent them off to schooland college; but to Henry, who was the youngest,th

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