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and day schools were established, a medical hospital opened, and Dr. Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was set apart to prepare a new version of the Bible, in the Mandarin dialect, which he completed in 1875. There was also in Shanghai a medical school for the training of native physicians, surgeons
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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 Convention took the major step of amending the DFMS constitution to
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Legislating that every Episcopalian was a member of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society emphasized that the Church as a whole was called to mission, which defined the church's nature. Thus, the argument ran, mission could not be delegated to one part of the Church, still less to the purely
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For the guidance of the Committees it is declared that the missionary field is always to be regarded as one, THE WORLD — the terms domestic and foreign being understood as terms of locality adopted for convenience. Domestic missions are those established within the United States, and foreign
250:), typing some 2,000 pages with the middle finger of his partially crippled hand. Four years before his death in 1906, he said, “I have sat in this chair for over twenty years. It seemed very hard at first. But God knew best. He kept me for the work for which I am best fitted.” 61:, the Church as the Church, was the one great Missionary Society; and the Apostles, and the Bishops, their successors, his perpetual trustees; and this great trust could not, and should never be divided or deputed." The duty, he maintained, to support the Church in preaching the 31:
that was involved in sending and providing financial support to lay and ordained mission workers in growing population centers in the west of the United States as well as overseas in China, Liberia and Japan during the second half of the 19th Century.
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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 Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas.
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Reinforcing also the contemporary recognition that local and global concerns are inter-related and equally important, the 1835 DFMS constitution declared the unity of the mission field:
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read, “The Society shall be considered as comprehending all persons who are members of this Church.” Although solving the membership problem, this change had a strong
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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 Williams (commemorated on 2 December) was consecrated missionary bishop of China and Japan in 1866.
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This insistence on the unity of mission contrasted with the exclusive emphases of British societies, with some devoted to domestic concerns and others to foreign.
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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 Christian, not a missionary.
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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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Walter Herbert Stowe, "A Turning Point – General Convention of 1835," Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 4 (September 1935): 176.
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in General Convention
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in 1883 but over the next twenty years completed, with the help of his wife, a translation of the Bible into Wenli (
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The establishment of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS) by the 1821 General Convention of the
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The Protestant Episcopal Mission had its headquarters in Shanghai. Following Mr. Lockwood, Rev. W. J. Boone,
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consecrated in 1851 as the first missionary bishop of Liberia. First African American missionary bishop,
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and nurses, and a college for the training of native missionaries. There were other stations at
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and Other Parts of China”, where Episcopal missionaries had first arrived in 1835.
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Church Missionary Society in the Church of England, by contrast, believed that the
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Wickeri, Philip L. (2017-02-02), "Anglicanism in China and East Asia, 1819–1912",
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In Japan, was the third major area of 19th-century Episcopal mission. The Revd.
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In an address of great power, he argued "that by the original constitution of
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who relocated from the China mission in 1859, were among the first non-
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to pilgrims whose journey is cosmopolitan and inter-religious. Born a
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native ministers, three unordained helpers, and about five hundred
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on baptismal mission and on the missional nature of the church.
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ministry before becoming an Episcopalian and graduating from the
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Protestant missionary societies in China during the 19th Century
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List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
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The first missionary bishop with a non-US jurisdiction was
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Robert Morrison : the pioneer of Chinese missions
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to every creature, passed on every Christian via the
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Index

Christian
missionary
Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
theological
George Washington Doane
Christ
Gospel
baptismal vow
denominations
Missionary Bishop
apostolic
episcopate
Jackson Kemper
consecrated
William Boone
Amoy
D.D.
Batavia
boarding
Wuchang
Hankow
Yantai
Beijing
ordained
communicants
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
Anglicanism
Lithuanian Jew
rabbi

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