The Quiver 3/ 1900. Anonymous
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The Quiver 3/ 1900
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066139438
Table of Contents
THE CENTENARY OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
BROUGHT AGAIN FROM THE DEPTHS.
Illustration: FOR THE SAKE OF HER CHILD
EASTER EGG ROLLING IN WASHINGTON
"Physician, heal thyself."— St. Luke iv. 23.
"THOUGH 'TWERE TEN THOUSAND MILE."
A VISIT TO THE EARLSWOOD ASYLUM.
SCRIPTURE LESSONS FOR SCHOOL & HOME INTERNATIONAL SERIES
With Illustrative Anecdotes and References.
ROLL OF HONOUR FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKERS.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON PAGE 480.
THE CENTENARY OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
By the Rev. A. R. Buckland, M.A., Morning Preacher at the Foundling Hospital.
At "The Castle and Falcon," in Aldersgate Street, on April 12th, 1799, there met, in all the solemnity of a public gathering, sixteen clergymen and nine laymen.
They founded there and then the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. That Society keeps its Centenary this month; no longer an inconspicuous organisation expressing the hopes of a godly few, but a great Society which has girdled the earth with its missions. When, in November, 1898, its Estimates Committee surveyed its position, they found that its roll included the names of 802 European missionaries, of whom 295 were ladies, whilst, of the 802, no