Book Description

Title:

The Church of England Mission in Sierra Leone: including an introductory Account of that Colony, and a Comprehensive Sketch of the Niger Expedition in the Year 1841

Author:

Samuel Abraham Walker

Publication Year:

1847

Location:

London

Publisher:

Seeley Burnside and Seeley

Pages:

589

Subjects:

Christian Mission, Church Missionary Society, Sierra Leone

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction. Sierra Leone

1. Introductory
2. Regent's Town and Gloucester
3. Regent's Town : Mr Johnson's Journal : Charlotte Town
4. Regent's Town : Mr Johnson's Journal : Gloucester : Mr During—Charlotte : Mr Taylor—Death of Mr Renner
5. Population of Freetown—Church Congregation—Methodists—Domingo Jordan—Hector Peters—The Lord's Day—Bambarra Town—Composition of Juries—Agricultural Industry—Death of Mrs Lisk—Mr During's Return Home—Nylander—David Noah—Fearful Catastrophe—Increase of Population at Regent—Native Industry—Samples of Missionary Success
6. Arrival of More Laborers—Return of Mr During—Death of Mr Johnson—Of Mr Flood—of Mr Palmer—Of Mrs Vaughan—Of Mr and Mrs During
7. Death of Sir Charles McCarthy—His Character—Church Buildings—Arrival of Fresh Missionaries—Death of Mr Brooks, Mr Nylanders, &c.
8. New Arrivals—More Deaths—Great Discouragements—Departures—New Government Regulations
9. Opening of St. George's Church—Discouragements—Fresh Losses—Some Improvement
10. Arrivals—And Further Losses—Revivals—Deaths—Feeble State of the Mission—Yet Some Favourable Prospects
11. Arrrival of Fresh Laborers—Death of Mrs Schon—And of Mrs Graf—Anxiety of the Natives For Instruction
12. Increase of the Population—New Churches—Native Teachers—Schools—Arrivals—Deaths—Deathbeds of Natives
13. Arrival of More Laborers, 1840—1841—State of the Christian Institution—Happy Results—Several Deaths—The Timmanee Mission
14. The Niger Expedition
15. Church Missioanry Association at Sierra Leone—Mission of Inquiry to Badagry—The Christian Institution—Church Building—Emigrants at Jamaica—Villages—Church Relief Company—Charlotte Bell—Death of Mr and Mrs Thompson
16. Rev. S. Crowther—The Yoyobas—The Haussa People—Schools—Abbeikouta—Death of Mrs Gollmer—Sir F. Buxton—Baptisms—Schools—Fourther Bay Institution—Postscript

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