Missionary Research Library collection on mission work in Australia and Oceania, 1840 -- 1956
This series is open for research.
2.75 linear feet; 2.75 linear feet; 3 boxes
This series contains materials compiled by the Missionary Research Library that document foreign mission work in Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, largely during the early 20th century, including reports, minutes, correspondence, publications, and a sketchbook. The majority of materials relate to the Philippine committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America (FMCNA), of which E. K. Higdon was chairman. The sketchbook was kept by Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold, Bishop of Rochester and later Bishop of Winchester, while on board the S.S. Australia and S.S. Parramatta, and includes views of Van Dieman Land, North Cape, Bay of Islands, Cape Brett, and Auckland, New Zealand; Honolulu, Diamond Head, and Waikiki, Oahu; the Suez Canal; Botany Bay, New South Wales; a missionary house in Samoa; Golden Gate, San Francisco, and more. The Report on the Progress of the Gospel in Polynesia is a 14 page folio manuscript in the hand of A.B. Putnam; it is his transcription of a speech by P.C. Colgrove given before the Society for Inquiry on December 7, 1840, and reports on atrocities but with emphasis on how missionaries have managed to convert many of the natives and how education and Christianity have spread.
This series is arranged by geographical area.
Box 1 Folder 1
Australia: National Missionary Council of Australia, 1935 -- 1945
Box 1 Folder 2
Indonesian National Council of Churches, 1955 -- 1956
Box 1 Folder 3
Philippine Islands: Reports, 1910 -- 1930
Box 1 Folder 4
Philippine Islands: National Christian Council Minutes and reports, 1932 -- 1935
Box 1 Folder 5
Philippine Islands: Samuel Catli Correspondence, Minutes and Reports, 1945 -- 1947
Box 1 Folder 6
Philippine Islands: Rural and Agricultural, 1942 -- 1946
Box 1 Folder 7
Philippine Islands: Union College, Manila, 1939 -- 1940
Box 1 Folder 8-9
Philippine Islands: E. K. Higdon Correspondence, Minutes and Reports, 1946 -- 1947
Box 1 Folder 10
Philippine Islands: Conferences and Committees, 1933
Box 1 Folder 11
Philippine Islands: Christian Work, 1929 -- 1940
Box 1 Folder 12
Philippine Islands: National Christian Council and Union Theological Seminary of the Philippines, 1928 -- 1934
Box 2 Folder 1
Philippine Islands: Relief for Americans, 1943 -- 1945
Box 2 Folder 2
Philippine Islands: Women's Work and Social Welfare, 1940
Box 2 Folder 3
Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold's Sketchbook, circa 1910 -- 1956
Box 3OS
Report on the Progress of the Gospel in Polynesia, 1840