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Missionary Activities At Macao: ROBERTS, Issachar Jacob, American missionary : b. Sumner County, Tenn., Feb. 17, 1802; d. Upper Alton, 111., Dec. 28, 1871. After study-in,? at the Furman Theological Institution in South Carolina he was ordained at Shelbyville, Tenn., in 1827. Later he organized the Roberts Fund and Mission Society, sailing for China as its representative in 1836. The following year he began his missionary activities at Macao, working as a saddler while preacher for a leper colony. In 1841 he joined the Baptist Mission, and five years later transferred to the Southern Baptists, but in 1852 reverted to an independent status.
The Roman Catholic Church has interest in the Gypsy problem by fo Opus nomadum, a missionary organt organizing a series of international first of which took place at Spezia 1965 and was attended by Pope Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in French there is a yearly pilgrimage, dating when the area was under King Rene
PARAGRAPH OF THE PAST I have spoken of Norway as a pioneering nation but her intelligently inquisitive spirit is not a new development. We recall, when we take time out to think of it, that the Icelander Leii Ericsson received his missionary stimulus in Norway, being there converted to Christianity. He took the new religion with him on a missionary voyage to Greenland, and being blown far off his course, discovered America just 492 years before Columbus did. And Saint Olav, early in the llth century, imposed Christianity on the Scandinavian main lands, especially Norway. |
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