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America. But the great resurgence of foreign missionary activity
began around the year 1800, at “the time of the end” (Dan. 12:4). In
1792 the Baptist Missionary Society sent Carey to India. In 1795 the
London Missionary Society was organized, and another society in
1799, which in 1812 became the Church Missionary Society. Shortly
afterward the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society was founded.
In the United States, the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions was formed in 1812, and Adoniram Judson was
sent out that year to Calcutta. He established himself in Burma the
next year. In 1814 the American Baptist Missionary Union was
formed. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions was formed in
1837.
“In A.D. 1800 ... the overwhelming majority of Christians were
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the descendants of those who had been won before A.D. 1500.
... Now, in the nineteenth century, came a further expansion of
Christianity. ... Never in any corresponding length of time had the
Christian impulse given rise to so many new movements. Never
had it had quite so great an effect upon Western European peoples.
It was from this abounding vigor that there issued the missionary
enterprise which during the nineteenth century so augmented the
numerical strength and the influence of Christianity.”—Kenneth
Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity, vol. IV,
The Great Century, A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914 (New York: Harper and
Bros., 1914), pp. 2-4.
Page 203. A Day for a Year. See note for page 35.
Page 205. The Year 457 B.C. For the certainty of the date
457 B.C. being the seventh year of Artaxerxes, see S. H. Horn
and L. H. Wood, The Chronology of
Ezra 7
(Washington, D.C.:
Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1953); E. G. Kraeling,
The Brooklyn Museum Aramaic Papyri (New Haven or London,
1953), pp. 191-193; The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
(Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association.
1954), vol. III, pp. 97-110.
Page 209. Fall of the Ottoman Empire. Throughout the Reforma-
tion era Turkey was a continual threat to European Christendom; the
writings of the Reformers are full of condemnation of the Ottoman
power. Christian writers since have been concerned with the role of