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and day schools were established, a medical hospital opened, and Dr. Samuel Isaac Joseph
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role of a bishop as one sent to preach the gospel, this innovation was premised on the view that the presence of a bishop meant that the Church itself was present and that a bishop in such circumstances had authority to “grow the church” from that simple fact of presence. As a voluntary society, the
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initially combined the voluntary and centralized modes of missionary support, for it was an official organ of the church, but members paid voluntary dues. After this version of the DFMS proved to have little appeal, the 1835 General
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voluntary inclinations of some of its members. Instead it must be embraced by the whole church and expressed through the missionary activity of each of its baptized members. This view constitutes the precedent for today's emphasis in many
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at convention as the first missionary bishop, and through his constant travels he laid the foundations of the Church in
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The 1835 convention employed the new office first to build the Church's work on the western frontier and elected missionary bishops for the northwest and southwest.
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Christian missionaries in that country's history. Channing Moore
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This insistence on the unity of mission contrasted with the exclusive emphases of
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should be the culmination, not the foundation, of church growth and that, in any case, the first bishop should be an indigenous
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in New York in 1859. Responding to Boone's call for helpers in China, he learned to write Chinese on board ship across the Pacific and translated the
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