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Excerpt from the Native Life in Travancore, written by The Rev. SAMUEL MATEER, F.L.S of the London Missionary Society

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...These 101 songs are all postmissionary and owe their musical origin to missionary hymns. None of them are technically chants but some, such as " 'Alika," "Hole Wai-mea," and "Maika'i Kaua'i," are chants that have been edited and set to music. The songs date from the mid-1850's to 1968—the date o...

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...SYSTEM 89 Chapter Seven MIGRATION OF PARENTS AND THE SCHOOL DROPOUTS A STUDY USING THE FUZZY RELATIONAL MAPS MODEL 99 Chapter Eight THE IMPACT OF MISSIONARY INTERVENTIONS ON THE EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF DEPRIVED CHILDREN – A FUZZY ANALYSIS 117 Chapter Nine CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 129 FURTHER READING 139 INDEX 143 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 145...

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...by in Africa. Wopsy desperately wants his baby's soul to become white and clean in baptism, but what is a small guardian angel to do when there is no missionary priest in the village? The author was a member of the missionary order of priests known as the White Fathers (So named because of the white habits they wore). He wrote the Wopsy series of books in order to encourag...

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A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam)

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...Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia)...

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...Hawaiian Culture: Alive, Relevant and Ready. 4 -- A New Standard in Hawaiian Education. 7 -- Developing Our Human Potential. 11 -- Missionary Influence on Hawai?i's Educational Philosophy. 20 -- John Dewey and Hawaiian Aesthetics. 30 -- An Outward Bound Paper. 36 -- To Set Right—Ho?oponopono: A Native Hawaiian Way of Peacemaking.. 42 -- The Role of Histo...

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...he mahele. Surveying the Mahele presents the stories of notable Hawaiians, such as Samuel P. Kalama and John W. Makalena, who learned surveying from missionary teach-ers and applied their art during the mahele, and introduces the children of missionaries, including teenagers Curtis Jere Lyons and Henry Munson Lyman, who were drafted into surveying work and found themselve...

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...mo?o which decided the course of modern Hawaiian history. One of Kapihe's last great prophecies may have been the one recorded in the Journal of the missionary William Ellis. Although Ellis branded him a "false prophet," he still thought enough of his calling to preserve for posterity the following prophecy: "Kapihe... informed Tamehameha that when he should die, Kuahiro...

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... avoid temptation. Thank Y ou. Amen. Protocol/Brandy S. Brow 53 A Wordsmith Missionary By Joanne Schulte “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have e... ...onger do I think of hosting missionaries in my home. For I too have become a missionary, a “wordsmith missionary.” No, I don’t risk life and limb to r... ...er “R” word. Reward, and my reward awaits me in heaven someday. A W ordsmith Missionary/Joanne Schulte 55 In the meantime only one thing matters. Tha... .... Thank you, Lord, for answering my prayer and allowing me to be a wordsmith missionary for Y ou. A Wordsmithl/Joanne Schulte 56 Pick Yourself Up, Du... ...alling you to a foreign missions field. Being a writer is a lot like being a missionary. Missionaries go through extensive training, including learnin... ...w—or even several—rejections sway you from the task God has called you to. A missionary can reach many people. An author can reach countless individua...

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...rma, Sri Lanka, Tibet, and including Pakistan & Bangladesh. During his missionary tours, Guru Nanak visited all the prominent Hindu and Muslim C... ...oor classes who had practically nothing to call their own, established the missionary centres, also known as ‘Dharamsaals’- (Righteous Assembly Plac...

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...feel suspended between the lower step and the void. I was deeply struck by the missionary who recounted how children in the depressed areas of the...

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... but only by circulating Kabbalah to other people, gently and without being a missionary. We can discretely inform people around us that there is su...

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...om the West. Foreigners introduced the concept of mapmaking to HawaiI, and they made maps of the islands to satisfy the needs of maritime commerce, missionary endeavors, and scientific investigations. Nearly seventy maps, complemented by more than twenty views, portraits, and illustrations, are reproduced here. Included are many charts and harbor plans produced by su...

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...r, it is evident that the credit of this discovery is really due to Forster and Anderson. Hervas was a Spanish Jesuit, who spent several years as a missionary in South America, where his attention was drawn to the comparative study of languages. After his return to Europe, he lived chiefly at Rome, where his correspondence with Jesuit missionaries in all parts of the w...

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...A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at the orphanage in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)...

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...hina at the beginning of the 20th Century. Interestingly, it also compares and contrasts Buddhism with Christianity with respect to or in response to missionary work. - not.a.moose...

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...Colonists Land. 222 -- Their Subsistence Economy. 222 -- The Endemic Wilderness Retreats. 224 -- “Discovery”. 225 -- Captain James Cook. 225 -- First Missionary Description. 226 -- Ka-u Missionized. 229 -- Ka-u In The forties. 231 -- The Shifting Human Scene. 232 -- Political Changes. 233 -- Fundamental Cultural Changes. 235 -- Foreign Impact. 236 -- Epidemics. 237 -- Disa...