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Missionary Life in Persia : Being glimpses at a quarter of a century of labors among the Nestorian Christians / Justin Perkins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463239213
  • 9781463240097
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE PRESENT EDITION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I. COMMENCEMENT OF THE MISSION TO THE NESTORIANS -- CHAPTER II. STATE OF THE FIELD, AND EARLY LABORS -- CHAPTER III. PROVIDENTIAL INTERPOSITIONS -- CHAPTER IV. PROGRESS IN THE MISSIONARY WORK -- CHAPTER V. THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE -- CHAPTER VI. MISSIONARY RESULTS -- CHAPTER VII. THE REVIVAL OF 1849 -- CHAPTER VIII. RELIGIOUS INTEREST AMONG THE MOHAMMEDANS -- CHAPTER IX. OBSTACLES REMOVED, AND OPPOSITION OVERRULED -- CHAPTER X. CONCLUSION
Summary: An account by the American missionary, Justin Perkins, of his years living among the Christians of Persia, with a new Introduction by John Ameer, setting the activities and experiences of the American missionaries in Persia in their historical context.

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE PRESENT EDITION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I. COMMENCEMENT OF THE MISSION TO THE NESTORIANS -- CHAPTER II. STATE OF THE FIELD, AND EARLY LABORS -- CHAPTER III. PROVIDENTIAL INTERPOSITIONS -- CHAPTER IV. PROGRESS IN THE MISSIONARY WORK -- CHAPTER V. THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE -- CHAPTER VI. MISSIONARY RESULTS -- CHAPTER VII. THE REVIVAL OF 1849 -- CHAPTER VIII. RELIGIOUS INTEREST AMONG THE MOHAMMEDANS -- CHAPTER IX. OBSTACLES REMOVED, AND OPPOSITION OVERRULED -- CHAPTER X. CONCLUSION

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An account by the American missionary, Justin Perkins, of his years living among the Christians of Persia, with a new Introduction by John Ameer, setting the activities and experiences of the American missionaries in Persia in their historical context.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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