Papers of George Armstrong Young 1906-1991
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Young, George Armstrong., 1898-1991
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George Armstrong Young, Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) missionary in China, was born in 1898 in Leicester, England to a working class Baptist family of Scottish background. Young had no early desire to become a missionary and after attending school in Glasgow he moved to London where he became a civil service clerk when he was sixteen. He fought in Belgium and France during the First World War and it was an experience on the battlefield at Ypres in 1917 which led to his deep Chris...
Baptist Missionary Society
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Located in London. From the description of Records of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1892-1981, (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702132580 The Baptist Missionary Society was founded in 1792, principally by William Carey, and was the first of modern missionary societies. The Society's early work began in 1793 in India under Carey's leadership. Its work extended into the East Indies and British West Indies in the early 19th century and, later, into Africa, ...
