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Presbyterian Mission Agency

Presbyterian Mission Agency is the ministry and mission agency of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Founded as the Western Foreign Missionary Society by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1837, it was involved in sending workers to countries such as China during the late Qing dynasty and to India in nineteenth century. Also known as the Foreign Missions Board in China, its name was changed by the Old School body during the Old School–New School Controversy to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.[1]

American Presbyterian Mission in Cairo

Notable for bringing up Bamba Muller who was a latter day "Cinderella" marrying the Black Prince of Perthshire.[2]

American Presbyterian Board in China

The Presbyterian Board of America transferred two of their missionaries from Singapore to China in 1843. It had four great centers. Guangzhou was entered in 1845, but it was sixteen years before they were able to baptise the first convert to Christianity. A medical hospital was a very important factor in the work of the Mission. Missions in Macau and Hainan were sustained from this center. Hospital work had been a prominent feature in this Mission. Dr. Peter Parker commenced a hospital in 1835, which was transferred to this society in 1854, and placed under the care of Dr. John G. Kerr. The Central Mission had five main centers which branched out in many directions. These included Ningbo, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, and Anqing. At Shanghai the extensive printing operations of the Society were carried on. These comprised not only several presses which were constantly at work, but a foundry where seven sizes of Chinese type, besides English, Korean, Manchu, Japanese, Hebrew, Greek and others, were cast. There was also complete apparatus for electrotyping and engraving. Much translation work had been done by this Society, and hand books of Christian history and doctrine prepared by it were in use on most of the Protestant missions in China.

Hunter Corbett was a Pioneer of an American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China, he served with the American Presbyterian Mission. He was a powerful advocate of the missionary enterprise. He founded the Yi Wen School (Boy's Academy/ Hunter Corbett Academy) known as Cheeloo University, The first university in China. Hunter Corbett ministered in China for 56 years.[3] Chester Holcombe was among the missionaries who went on to join the American diplomatic service, following S. Wells Williams as secretary to the American legation in 1884.

The Shantung (Shandong) Mission extends from the capital city, Chi-nan-foo Jinan, northwards to Yantai, and had many stations which reported about three thousand members in 1890. The Peking Mission was of latest date, and was doing much work in diffusing throughout a wide district a knowledge of the Gospel by its proclamation to the vast numbers who crowded from all the surrounding regions to the imperial city. The totals of the mission in 1890 were, forty-eight missionaries, eighteen lady agents, twenty-three ordained native pastors, eighty-four unordained native helpers, and nearly four thousand communicants.[4]

American Presbyterian Mission in Persia (Iran)

In 1838, the Fiske Seminary was founded the American Presbyterian Mission in Urmia, Qajar Persia (now Iran).[5]

American Presbyterian Mission in Siam (Thailand)

The first missionary of the American Presbyterian Mission board was William Buell, who arrived with his wife in Bangkok in 1840. Due to his wife's health problems, the couple returned to the United States in 1844. In 1847, Samuel Reynolds House and Stephen Mattoon and their wives arrived in Bangkok to begin mission work. These two couples, together with missionary Stephen Bush, founded Samray Church in 1849, the first Presbyterian church in Thailand. In 1863, missionaries Daniel McGilvary and Samuel Gamble McFarland opened work in Petchburi province, about 100 km east of Bangkok.

In 1867, McGilvary moved to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, where he pioneered Christian work in the north. First Church in Chiang Mai was founded in 1868. The work in Northern Thailand was called the Laos Mission, and the work in Bangkok, Central Thailand, and Southern Thailand was called the Siam Mission.

In 1879, Belle Caldwell Culbertson sailed for Indo-China as a missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions. For two years, she was principal of the Harriet House School for Girls in Bangkok. In January, 1880, in Siam, she married Rev. John Newton Culbertson, who was serving there with the same Board of Missions, and in 1881, they returned to the U.S.[6]

In 1913, the Laos Mission counted approximately 6000 Thai Christians converts in the North, and the Siam Mission counted approximately 600 Thai Christian converts in their jurisdiction.

Missionaries in both the Siam Mission and Laos Mission founded schools and hospitals, as well as carrying on evangelistic work. American Presbyterian missionaries helped to found the Church of Christ in Thailand in 1934, an indigenous Thai denomination which eventually took over responsibility for both mission and social work when the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand was dissolved on August 19, 1957.

Educational and medical establishments in Colonial India

The American Presbyterian Mission was opened at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in 1836.

In 1864, Forman Christian College was founded in Lahore by a Presbyterian missionary Charles William Forman.

The Wanless Hospital had its beginning as a small dispensary started in 1890 in the Miraj (Meer’-udge) Bazaar by Dr. William James Wanless pioneer Presbyterian medical missionary. The first of the present buildings was opened in 1894.[7]

In 1893, Presbyterian mission established Gordon College in Rawalpindi and was named after Dr Andrew Gordon who was the head of the mission.[8]

The Ewing Christian College, managed by the American Presbyterian Mission was opened in 1902 and had 70 pupils in 1904.[9]

In 1910 John Lawrence Goheen and Jane Goheen accepted an appointment from the American Presbyterian missionaries for missionary service in Sangli in the state of Maharashtra, India. John Lawrence Goheen and Jane Goheen arrived in India in 1911 and soon after he was placed in charge as the Principal at Sangli Boys School in Sangli. He transformed the school into an Industrial and Agricultural Educational Institute and instituted an extension service as The Sangli Moveable School. This brought improved agricultural techniques to the villages surrounding Sangli. He was appointed as a member of Bombay Literacy mission.

Publications

  • Baller, Frederick William (1900). An analytical Chinese-English dictionary : compiled for the China Inland Mission. Shanghai: China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Baller, Frederick William (1893). An analytical vocabulary of the New Testament. Shanghai: China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Baller, Frederick William (1907). An analytical vocabulary of the New Testament. Shanghai: China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • China Inland Mission (1887). A Primer in the Mandarin Dialect: Containing Lessons and Vocabularies, and Notes on Chinese Constructions and Idioms; Also a Dialogue on Christianity; Translations of Passports, Leases, Boat Agreements, Etc. Interleaved, and with Large Map of China. Prepared for the Use of Junior Members of the ... Shanghai: China Inland Mission; and American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Educational Association of China; Mateer, Calvin Wilson (1904). Technical terms, English and Chinese. Shanghai: Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Grainger, Adam (1900). Western Mandarin; or, The spoken language of western China : with syllabic and English indexes. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Grainger, Adam (1900). Western Mandarin, or, The spoken language of western China;. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • MacGillivray, Donald (1907). A Mandarin-Romanized dictionary of Chinese. Shanghai: Printed at the Presbyterian mission press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • MacGillivray, Donald (1918). A Mandarin-Romanized dictionary of Chinese (4th ed.). Shanghai: Printed at the Presbyterian mission press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • MacGillivray, Donald (1921). A Mandarin-Romanized Dictionary of Chinese: Including New Terms and Phrases, Now Current (5 ed.). Shanghai: Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Poletti, P. (1907). A Chinese and English dictionary : arranged according to radicals and sub-radicals / by P. Poletti. Shanghai: Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Williams, Samuel Wells (1874). A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language; arranged according to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Williams, Samuel Wells (1889). A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language : arranged according to the Wu-fang Yuen Yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Williams, Samuel Wells (1896). A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language; arranged according to the Wu-fang yuen yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai;. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Williams, Samuel Wells (1903). A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language : arranged according to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Wylie, Alexander (1867). Notes on Chinese Literature: With Introductory Remarks on the Progressive Advancement of the Art; and a List of Translations from the Chinese Into Various European Languages. American Presbyterian mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • Wylie, Alexander (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese: Giving a List of Their Publications, and Obituary Notices of the Deceased. With Copious Indexes. American Presbyterian mission Press. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Volume 24. American Presbyterian Mission Press. 1893. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  • The Chinese Recorder, Volume 28. American Presbyterian Mission Press. 1897. Retrieved 24 April 2014.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Parker, Michael (2012). "History of World Mission". Presbyterian Historical Society. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  2. ^ Pan, Esther; Medhat Said (2006). "Bamba Muller". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  3. ^ Biographical dictionary of Christian missions
  4. ^ Townsend (1890), 236-237
  5. ^ Borjian, Maryam. “The History of English in Iran (1836–1979).” English in Post-Revolutionary Iran: From Indigenization to Internationalization, vol. 29, Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications, 2013, pp. 40–62. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21kk1tj.7. Accessed 3 Dec. 2022.
  6. ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). "BELLE CALDWELL CULBERTSON". The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle publishing Company. p. 520. Retrieved 10 June 2022.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ^ "Wanless Hospital, Miraj". Wanlesshospital.org. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
  8. ^ Yasin, Aamir (23 July 2017). "Gordon College — legacy of the colonial era". DAWN.COM.
  9. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 5, p. 241

References

  • Townsend, William (1890). Robert Morrison : the pioneer of Chinese missions. London: S.W. Partridge.

External links

  • Official website
  • Celebrating 180 years of Presbyterian World Mission – Mission Crossroads magazine, Summer 2017
  • – anniversary feature

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Not to be confused with American Southern Presbyterian Mission Presbyterian Mission Agency is the ministry and mission agency of the Presbyterian Church U S A Founded as the Western Foreign Missionary Society by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1837 it was involved in sending workers to countries such as China during the late Qing dynasty and to India in nineteenth century Also known as the Foreign Missions Board in China its name was changed by the Old School body during the Old School New School Controversy to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions 1 Contents 1 American Presbyterian Mission in Cairo 2 American Presbyterian Board in China 3 American Presbyterian Mission in Persia Iran 4 American Presbyterian Mission in Siam Thailand 5 Educational and medical establishments in Colonial India 6 Publications 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksAmerican Presbyterian Mission in Cairo EditNotable for bringing up Bamba Muller who was a latter day Cinderella marrying the Black Prince of Perthshire 2 American Presbyterian Board in China EditThe Presbyterian Board of America transferred two of their missionaries from Singapore to China in 1843 It had four great centers Guangzhou was entered in 1845 but it was sixteen years before they were able to baptise the first convert to Christianity A medical hospital was a very important factor in the work of the Mission Missions in Macau and Hainan were sustained from this center Hospital work had been a prominent feature in this Mission Dr Peter Parker commenced a hospital in 1835 which was transferred to this society in 1854 and placed under the care of Dr John G Kerr The Central Mission had five main centers which branched out in many directions These included Ningbo Shanghai Hangzhou Fuzhou and Anqing At Shanghai the extensive printing operations of the Society were carried on These comprised not only several presses which were constantly at work but a foundry where seven sizes of Chinese type besides English Korean Manchu Japanese Hebrew Greek and others were cast There was also complete apparatus for electrotyping and engraving Much translation work had been done by this Society and hand books of Christian history and doctrine prepared by it were in use on most of the Protestant missions in China Hunter Corbett was a Pioneer of an American missionary to Yantai Shandong China he served with the American Presbyterian Mission He was a powerful advocate of the missionary enterprise He founded the Yi Wen School Boy s Academy Hunter Corbett Academy known as Cheeloo University The first university in China Hunter Corbett ministered in China for 56 years 3 Chester Holcombe was among the missionaries who went on to join the American diplomatic service following S Wells Williams as secretary to the American legation in 1884 The Shantung Shandong Mission extends from the capital city Chi nan foo Jinan northwards to Yantai and had many stations which reported about three thousand members in 1890 The Peking Mission was of latest date and was doing much work in diffusing throughout a wide district a knowledge of the Gospel by its proclamation to the vast numbers who crowded from all the surrounding regions to the imperial city The totals of the mission in 1890 were forty eight missionaries eighteen lady agents twenty three ordained native pastors eighty four unordained native helpers and nearly four thousand communicants 4 American Presbyterian Mission in Persia Iran EditIn 1838 the Fiske Seminary was founded the American Presbyterian Mission in Urmia Qajar Persia now Iran 5 American Presbyterian Mission in Siam Thailand EditThe first missionary of the American Presbyterian Mission board was William Buell who arrived with his wife in Bangkok in 1840 Due to his wife s health problems the couple returned to the United States in 1844 In 1847 Samuel Reynolds House and Stephen Mattoon and their wives arrived in Bangkok to begin mission work These two couples together with missionary Stephen Bush founded Samray Church in 1849 the first Presbyterian church in Thailand In 1863 missionaries Daniel McGilvary and Samuel Gamble McFarland opened work in Petchburi province about 100 km east of Bangkok In 1867 McGilvary moved to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand where he pioneered Christian work in the north First Church in Chiang Mai was founded in 1868 The work in Northern Thailand was called the Laos Mission and the work in Bangkok Central Thailand and Southern Thailand was called the Siam Mission In 1879 Belle Caldwell Culbertson sailed for Indo China as a missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions For two years she was principal of the Harriet House School for Girls in Bangkok In January 1880 in Siam she married Rev John Newton Culbertson who was serving there with the same Board of Missions and in 1881 they returned to the U S 6 In 1913 the Laos Mission counted approximately 6000 Thai Christians converts in the North and the Siam Mission counted approximately 600 Thai Christian converts in their jurisdiction Missionaries in both the Siam Mission and Laos Mission founded schools and hospitals as well as carrying on evangelistic work American Presbyterian missionaries helped to found the Church of Christ in Thailand in 1934 an indigenous Thai denomination which eventually took over responsibility for both mission and social work when the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand was dissolved on August 19 1957 Educational and medical establishments in Colonial India EditThe American Presbyterian Mission was opened at Allahabad Uttar Pradesh in 1836 In 1864 Forman Christian College was founded in Lahore by a Presbyterian missionary Charles William Forman The Wanless Hospital had its beginning as a small dispensary started in 1890 in the Miraj Meer udge Bazaar by Dr William James Wanless pioneer Presbyterian medical missionary The first of the present buildings was opened in 1894 7 In 1893 Presbyterian mission established Gordon College in Rawalpindi and was named after Dr Andrew Gordon who was the head of the mission 8 The Ewing Christian College managed by the American Presbyterian Mission was opened in 1902 and had 70 pupils in 1904 9 In 1910 John Lawrence Goheen and Jane Goheen accepted an appointment from the American Presbyterian missionaries for missionary service in Sangli in the state of Maharashtra India John Lawrence Goheen and Jane Goheen arrived in India in 1911 and soon after he was placed in charge as the Principal at Sangli Boys School in Sangli He transformed the school into an Industrial and Agricultural Educational Institute and instituted an extension service as The Sangli Moveable School This brought improved agricultural techniques to the villages surrounding Sangli He was appointed as a member of Bombay Literacy mission Publications EditBaller Frederick William 1900 An analytical Chinese English dictionary compiled for the China Inland Mission Shanghai China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Baller Frederick William 1893 An analytical vocabulary of the New Testament Shanghai China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Baller Frederick William 1907 An analytical vocabulary of the New Testament Shanghai China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 China Inland Mission 1887 A Primer in the Mandarin Dialect Containing Lessons and Vocabularies and Notes on Chinese Constructions and Idioms Also a Dialogue on Christianity Translations of Passports Leases Boat Agreements Etc Interleaved and with Large Map of China Prepared for the Use of Junior Members of the Shanghai China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Educational Association of China Mateer Calvin Wilson 1904 Technical terms English and Chinese Shanghai Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Grainger Adam 1900 Western Mandarin or The spoken language of western China with syllabic and English indexes Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Grainger Adam 1900 Western Mandarin or The spoken language of western China Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 MacGillivray Donald 1907 A Mandarin Romanized dictionary of Chinese Shanghai Printed at the Presbyterian mission press Retrieved 24 April 2014 MacGillivray Donald 1918 A Mandarin Romanized dictionary of Chinese 4th ed Shanghai Printed at the Presbyterian mission press Retrieved 24 April 2014 MacGillivray Donald 1921 A Mandarin Romanized Dictionary of Chinese Including New Terms and Phrases Now Current 5 ed Shanghai Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Poletti P 1907 A Chinese and English dictionary arranged according to radicals and sub radicals by P Poletti Shanghai Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Williams Samuel Wells 1874 A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language arranged according to the Wu Fang Yuen Yin with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking Canton Amoy and Shanghai Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Williams Samuel Wells 1889 A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language arranged according to the Wu fang Yuen Yin with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking Canton Amoy and Shanghai Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Williams Samuel Wells 1896 A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language arranged according to the Wu fang yuen yin with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking Canton Amoy and Shanghai Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Williams Samuel Wells 1903 A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language arranged according to the Wu Fang Yuen Yin with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking Canton Amoy and Shanghai Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Wylie Alexander 1867 Notes on Chinese Literature With Introductory Remarks on the Progressive Advancement of the Art and a List of Translations from the Chinese Into Various European Languages American Presbyterian mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 Wylie Alexander 1867 Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese Giving a List of Their Publications and Obituary Notices of the Deceased With Copious Indexes American Presbyterian mission Press Retrieved 24 April 2014 The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal Volume 24 American Presbyterian Mission Press 1893 Retrieved 24 April 2014 The Chinese Recorder Volume 28 American Presbyterian Mission Press 1897 Retrieved 24 April 2014 See also EditAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Presbyterian Medical Mission at Weixian Shandong Christianity in China John Lawrence Goheen List of Protestant missionaries in China List of Protestant missionary societies in China 1807 1953 Protestant missions in China Timeline of Chinese historyNotes Edit Parker Michael 2012 History of World Mission Presbyterian Historical Society Retrieved 7 June 2014 Pan Esther Medhat Said 2006 Bamba Muller Dictionary of African Christian Biography Retrieved 8 March 2010 Biographical dictionary of Christian missions Townsend 1890 236 237 Borjian Maryam The History of English in Iran 1836 1979 English in Post Revolutionary Iran From Indigenization to Internationalization vol 29 Multilingual Matters Channel View Publications 2013 pp 40 62 JSTOR https doi org 10 2307 j ctt21kk1tj 7 Accessed 3 Dec 2022 Logan Mrs John A 1912 BELLE CALDWELL CULBERTSON The Part Taken by Women in American History Perry Nalle publishing Company p 520 Retrieved 10 June 2022 This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain Wanless Hospital Miraj Wanlesshospital org Retrieved 2013 04 23 Yasin Aamir 23 July 2017 Gordon College legacy of the colonial era DAWN COM Imperial Gazetteer of India v 5 p 241References EditTownsend William 1890 Robert Morrison the pioneer of Chinese missions London S W Partridge External links EditOfficial website Celebrating 180 years of Presbyterian World Mission Mission Crossroads magazine Summer 2017 Celebrate 175 years of Presbyterian World Mission anniversary feature Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Presbyterian Mission Agency amp oldid 1125605828, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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