Missionary Paper II ; Our Rajputana Mission: For distribution to EVERY family
United Free Church of Scotland1901
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An account of two pioneer missionaries sailing to India, from Southampton. In 1858 the United Churches of Scotland Mission Board decided to start evangelical work in Ajmer-Merwara. Rev. Williamson Shoolbred and Rev. Thomas Blair Steele volunteered to do it. In 1859 they reached Bombay, where they met Rev. John Wilson. Rev. Steele fell ill, and died on 19th February, at Erinpura around 120 miles from Beawar. Shoolbred continued on, and reached Beawar on March 6th 1860, where he opened a school. He and other missionaries visited the princely states also. Mission stations were opened in almost all the big cities, and in the course of time, other missions followed. By 1921, seven missions were working in Rajputana - a large district to the south of Delhi. Rev. Williamson Shoolbred was born in Dunfermline in 1827, and died in Arbroath in 1896. This A5-sized report of the mission has a black and white photograph/portrait of Williamson Shoolbred D.D., on the front cover.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Lorimer and Gillies, Printers, 1901.
Collation:
2 pages : illus. (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Local class:
4/SHO Pamphlet Box S1
Language:
English
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BRN:
3420498