The Great Century (nineteenth century)         Click here for 19th Century Time-chart
   Often described as the period 1792 to 1914, because:
       1792: Baptist William Carey founds a mission society and goes to India,
                       starting the massive involvement of English-speaking Protestants in mission.
       1914: Beginning of World War I brings mission work to a temporary halt.

Below are: Initials, Slavery dates, LCMS involvement

Initials of the 19th Century Mission Groups:

ABCFM --  American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1810, from the “haystack meeting” at Williams College, Massachusetts)

ABS -- American Bible Society

AIM --  Africa Inland Mission (faith mission, est. 1895)

Basel mission (Switzerland, Reformed, 1815)

CIM  --  China Inland Mission (founded by Hudson Taylor in 1865)
          Now called OMF (Overseas Missionary Fellowship)

CMS --  Church Missionary Society (founded 1799; Anglican-evangelical)

LMS --  London Missionary Society (multi-denominational, founded 1795)

Rhenish (German, Lutheran, 1828)

SIM --  Sudan Interior Mission (faith mission, est. 1893)

SPCK  --  Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Anglican, founded 1698)

SPG  --  Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Anglican, 1701)

SVM --  Student Volunteer Movement “evangelize the world in this generation” (1888, John Mott)

TEAM -- The Evangelical Alliance Mission"  (founded in U. S. in 1890)

 

Slavery –

1808 – Britain makes slave trade illegal
1833 – slavery abolished in British Empire
1865 – U. S. Constitutional amendment against slavery.
1890 – Brussels conference: int’l agreement to abolish slave trade.

 

LCMS Mission Work during the “Great Century” (1792 to 1914)

1895.  LCMS to India.  5 people working in India with a German mission society left it and became LCMS; LCMS had just formed a mission board in 1893; accepted them, brought them to USA for commissioning, then sent them back to India.  They worked with Tamil-speaking people in the South-east of India.  Two of them were named in the reference material: Karl Gustav Theodor Näther and Franz Edward Mohn.  Näther died in India of bubonic plague in 1904.  Mohn continued ‘til 1913, then became a pastor in S. Dakota, died in 1925.  The India Evangelical Lutheran church was organized in 1958.

1912.  LCMS to China.  Missionary Arndt from Concordia St. Paul becomes first LCMS missionary to China.  Edward Louis Arndt was an ordained LCMS pastor, teaching biology at CSP.  Because he had a heart for reaching the people of China, he formed a mission society of local Twin Cities churches and individuals, and they sent him to China in 1912.  In 1917 the LCMS Mission Board took up sponsorship of his work.  (source: Lutheran Cyclopedia)

 

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