Letters on Missions; Addressed to the Protestant Ministers of the British Churches
C. P. Wyckoff, 1797. First Edition. Leather Binding. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #00501708
Full period brown speckled calf (some chipping to edges; text browned with some foxing; lacks front endpaper). xiii, [1], 124, [2] pages. 'The legacy of Melvill Horne (1762-1841), a contemporary of William Carey (1761-1834), lies principally in his role as a mis- sionary advocate and publicist who helpedto foster this renewed phase of overseas christian expansion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Horne’s Letters on Missions; Addressed to the Protestant Ministers of the British Churches, pub- lished in 1794, stimulated extensive debate on the nature and purpose of overseas missions and provided the main catalyst for the formation of the missionary society (later renamed the london missionary society). although building on the work of his continental predecessors, Horne moved debate in new directions by calling for a pan-evangelical response to missions. Horne’s account of his experimental missionary praxis in Sierra Leone also offered guidance that informed the organization of later missionary ventures to the south seas and africa. he was regarded as an important source of intelligence by both the missionary society and the society for missions to Africa and the east instituted by members of the established church (later known as the Church Missionary Society).' (Suzanne Schwarz).
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