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memories and those of various incidents that had occurred then, and which were only made occasionally to friends, relatives and friends. Other sources include a series of papers that Stock made when he was about seventy years of age for one of the church weekly papers, which were later further expanded, and published in a volume now out of print. Much of this information was covered in Stock's 1909 publication,
144:. Stock was the eldest child of his father through his first marriage, and was born in a home on Dule Street in Westminster.Because of an unstable circumstances the Stock family never had much of a change to settle into a permanent house His mother died when he was about ten years old. His earliest memories are of a ferry ride with his mother to the
217:(1899–1916) is considered his greatest work, and the most thorough account of missionary history writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, providing many insights into the missionaries and missionary life during this time. Volume IV of this series was written some years after the others when Stock was eighty years of age.
140:. After completing his basic education in London and Brighton public schools he continued with his studies and largely taught himself without the aid of a university or clerical background that secretaries of his caliber were generally known to possess..His first memories of English royalty began when he was a youth during the reign of
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Australia and in New Zealand needed assistance at the given missions in these colonies. At the time there was no church organization of any consequence. Members of the church in Australia appealed to the Church Missionary Society asking them to
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in 1916. Despite the fact that
Christian missions provided aid and education and were successful in converting many central African tribes from the practice of cannibalism and human sacrifice to Christianity, and for largely ending the Arab slave trade, often noted by Stock his works, regardless,
188:.an investment firm His mother was a highly educated and accomplished lady, whose assets and property were almost entirely lost in the same manner. His mother subsequently was left with Stock and his two sisters whom she struggled to provided for with what little was left of her remaining fortune.
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Stock's position as a CMS official was less than traditional in some respects and had frequently advocated for women to become involved at the missions and often encouraged them to consider such a tasking and demanding vocation. For twenty years he lectured at missionary meeting places in London,
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which was effected in 1875. The two worked together for about three years, after witch Knox resigned and Stock became the sole editor. By 1881 he became full secretary for the
Society. Throughout the 1880s because of his vast knowledge of Church Missionary Society's history, his influence grew,
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Missionary Society who had the general approval of his missionary positions, and who had a significant influence on Stock and his views on missionary life. However, there is speculation that Stock may have been subjugated by his own immediate surroundings and
120:(CMS) and the many missions it had reign over. Because of his extensive knowledge of CMS history, Stock became the senior secretary of the society. He also lectured to women at missionary meeting places in London, and promoted the idea of recruiting women for missionary service.
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A missionary with strong evangelical principles, Stock was still a loyal churchman who helped to lead the CMS away from some of the more radical tenants of the
Protestant religion. He was a member of several church organizations, which included the
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experiences that apparently made him abandon some of Venn's positions regarding missionary work in underdeveloped foreign lands with the idea that such efforts would have been better directed at his own countrymen and other
European countries.
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and who tended to alienate himself for his criticism of the CMS for their abandonment of some of Venn's policies. Stock subsequently described Cust as “inconsistent, cantankerous and far too liberal".
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more years. He continued as one of the most influential advocate of foreign missions. At age sixty-six Stock married
Isabella Emily Fiennes, a widow, on August 20, 1902, at Saint Saviour’s Church in
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Stock's father was a man of position and wealth, who was often in France where he lost his entire fortune through speculations on grain, flour, sugar and other such commodities involving the
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as an editor in 1873 and soon became its editorial secretary in 1875, supervisor of all their publications, including its influential journal,
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