OF

PROTESTANT MISSIONS

FROM THE

REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT TIME

With an Appendix concerning Roman Catholic Missions

BY

GUSTAV, WARNECK

PROFESSOR AND DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY

THIRD ENGLISH EDITION

Being Authorised Translation from the Eighth German Edition

EDITED BY

GEORGE ROBSON, D.D.

WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AND TWELVE MAPS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

OLIPHANT ANDERSON & FERRIER

PRINTED BY

MORRISON AND GIBB LIMITED, EDINBURGH

FOR

OLIPHANT ANDERSON & FERRIER

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

NOV 19 1954

Cohen Collection

1. The eternal origin of the universality of salvation, p. 3. 2. Its real-

isation through Christianity, p. 3. 3. Missionary character of the

Christian Church, p. 4. 4. Apostolic and post-Apostolic missions,

p. 5. 5. Christianising of the people, p. 5. 6. The medieval period

of missions, p. 6. 7. The opening of the world in the fifteenth

century, and Catholic missions, p. 7

CHAPTER I

THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION

pp. 3-7

8. Absence of missionary action in the Protestant Church explained, p. 8.

9. The idea of missions lacking in the Reformers, p. 8. 10. Examin-

ation of Luther's position, p. 10. 11. Melanchthon and Bucer, p. 17.

12. Zwingli, p. 19. 13. Calvin, p. 19 [with note on Knox, p. 20].

14. Saravia, the first advocate of missions, p. 20. 15. Fruitless

missionary attempt in Brazil, p. 22. 16. Also among the Lapps,

Section I.-In Germany. 17. Interest in the Orient: Peter Heiling,
p. 25. 18. Isolated utterances in favour of missions, p. 26. 19. Ad-
verse utterances.-Opinion of the Faculty of Wittenberg in opposition
to missions, p. 26. 20. The historical and dogmatic basis of the denial
of a missionary obligation by Joh. Gerhard, p. 28. 21. Missionary
life suppressed by the prevalent views, p. 31. 22. Justinian von

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Weltz, and his summons to united missionary effort, p. 32. 23.

Ursinus his reply to von Weltz, p. 37. 24. Spener and Scriver on

lack of missionary zeal, p. 39. 25. Leibnitz an advocate of missions,

P. 41

Section II.-Outside of Germany. 26. Holland: colonial enterprise

and mission work, p. 42. 27. The Dutch East Indian Company the

medium, p. 44. 28. Estimate of its mission work, p. 45. 29. Mis-

sions to the Dutch colonies in America, p. 46. 30. England: the

colonising of New England, p. 47. 31. John Eliot and the Indians,

p. 48.

32. The Long Parliament: the S. P. G. Cromwell, p. 49.

33. Fruitlessness of these beginnings, p. 50. 34. Denmark: the

first mission to India, p. 51

pp. 42-52

CHAPTER III

THE AGE OF PIETISM

35. The missionary genius of Pietism, p. 53. 36. Aug. Herm. Francke,

and his relation to it, p. 54. 37. The opposition of Orthodoxy, p.

56. 38. Halle and the Danish mission to India, p. 57. 39. Danish

missions to Lapland and Greenland: Hans Egede, p. 58. 40. Count

von Zinzendorf, p. 58. 41. The Moravian Brethren: their character,

p. 59.

42. The beginning of Moravian missions, p. 62. 43. Their

progress, p. 63. 44. The missionary spirit of the Moravians, p. 64.

45. Missionary decay in Holland, p. 67. 46. Stray beginnings in

England, p. 67. 47. Prevalent irreligion, p. 68. 48. The Methodist

Revival, p. 70; with notes on Scotland and America, p. 72

pp. 53-73

CHAPTER IV

THE PRESENT AGE OF MISSIONS

49. Dawn of the modern missionary spirit, p. 74. 50. Cook's dis-

coveries, p. 74. 51. William Carey, p. 75.

52. Influence of geo-

graphical discoveries and new means of communication, p. 76.

53. The new ideas of political freedom and of the rights of men:

Wilberforce, p. 76. 54. The East India Company, p. 78. 55.

Ecclesiastical opposition to missions, p. 81. 56. Consequent initi-

ation of free missionary societies, p. 82. 57. Employment of qualified

laymen as missionaries, p. 83. 57a. Relation of missions to Churches,

p. 84. 57b. Women and lay missionaries, p. 85

CHAPTER V

pp. 74-85

HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION AND GROWTH OF MISSIONARY

SOCIETIES

58. Introductory, p. 86. 1. England. 59. Baptist Missionary Society,
p. 86. 60. London Missionary Society, p. 88. 61. Church Mis-
sionary Society, p. 90. 62. The S. P. G., p. 93. 63. Other Anglican