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people to request permission to establish a church on the mainland. Despite some initial resistance, the king acquiesced. Merrick founded the
Jubilee Mission in 1844. That same year, he founded a school. Over the next four to five years, translated parts of the
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Merrick began preaching in 1837 in
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