Missionary outreach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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William Carey's contribution to modern missions, distinctive about Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission and two Catholic missionary societies founded in the nineteenth century.

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1. 1

   Why is the nineteenth century called the great century of Protestant missions?

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   Kenneth Scott Latourette gave the nineteenth century that name because Protestant Christianity expanded further and faster in it than in any period before, carried by a wave of new voluntary missionary societies.

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   What was William Carey's contribution to modern missions?

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   William Carey argued in 1792 that the command to make disciples still bound the church, sailed for India the following year, and spent his life in Bible translation, education and the training of Indian Christians.

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   Name three British missionary societies founded between 1792 and 1804.

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   The Baptist Missionary Society was founded in 1792, the London Missionary Society in 1795 and the Church Missionary Society in 1799, and the British and Foreign Bible Society followed in 1804.

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   What was distinctive about Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission?

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   Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission in 1865 to work in the interior rather than the treaty ports, required his missionaries to wear Chinese dress and live simply, and accepted no guaranteed salary, relying on gifts as they came.

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   How did David Livingstone understand the purpose of his work in Africa?

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   David Livingstone linked Christian mission to the ending of the slave trade and to legitimate commerce, believing that trade, exploration and the gospel together would break the slaving economy of central Africa.

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   Why is the Edinburgh conference of 1910 a landmark?

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   The World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910 brought Protestant missionary bodies together to plan common work, and the co-operation it began led on to the modern ecumenical movement and eventually to the World Council of Churches.

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