Following is the next installment of John G. Paton’s account of his experience with the Glasgow City Mission, an example of 19th century urban territorial missions. For the previous one, click here.
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The kind cow-feeder had to inform us—and he did it with much genuine sorrow—that at a given date he would require [...]
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The early city mission work of the ‘king of the cannibals’ (2)
Posted in Cure of Souls, Vignettes from 19th Century District Visitation, Visitation Evangelism on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The early city mission work of the ‘king of the cannibals’ (1)
Posted in Cure of Souls, David Nasmith, Vignettes from 19th Century District Visitation, Visitation Evangelism on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been some time since I’ve read the classic John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides (1898). A truly amazing story of God’s work through a humble, Scottish Presbyterian missionary among the cannibals of Australasia.
But I had altogether forgotten the book’s recounting of his preparatory work in the Glasgow City Mission. He had been [...]
“My district” – a snapshot of 19th century evangelistic visitation
Posted in Cure of Souls, Vignettes from 19th Century District Visitation, Visitation Evangelism on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the diary of Sir Michael Connal, evangelical Presbyterian merchant in Glasgow:
“November 6 [1838].—Visited two poor women, as a member of the Stirlingshire Charitable Society ; one a Mrs. Buchanan, a poor object, five children.just out of scarlet fever, three stairs up in a back land in the High Street; dreadful poverty, suffocating smell, rags, [...]
“Off with you, dirty Protestant!”
Posted in Vignettes from the Old Parish Way, Visitation Evangelism on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I recently came across a selection of a poem, originally written anonymously. The poem, entitled Jonas Fisher, was thought to have been written by William Tasker, disciple of Thomas Chalmers and missionary to the slums of 19th century Edinburgh. But apparently, later scholarship regarded it as the product of James Carnegie.
Whatever the origin, it is [...]
Alexander Somerville
Posted in Vignettes from the Old Parish Way, Visitation Evangelism on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an intriguing biography of a 19th century Scottish missionary, Alexander Somerville. The following passage is illustrative of the visitation evangelism promoted in the Church of Scotland and also performed by his colleagues, the Bonar brothers and Robert Murray M’Cheyne:
The Students’ Missionary Society, founded by John Wilson of Bombay, continued to meet every Saturday [...]
