Regions beyond missionary union archive [microform : papers of the RBMU concerning the Congo, India, Nepal and Peru from the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, New College, University of Edinburgh.

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Regions beyond missionary union archive [microform : papers of the RBMU concerning the Congo, India, Nepal and Peru from the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, New College, University of Edinburgh.

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Regions Beyond Missionary Union trained missionaries for work in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia. The archive consists of minute books, letters from missionaries, journals, books, and photographs.

81 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. + listing and guide (112 p.)

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The Regions Beyond Missionary Union originated in 1873 when the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions was opened by Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910) in Stepney Green, Clapton, London. Guinness, a nephew of Arthur Guinness the founder of the brewing empire, had already made his name as a revivalist preacher of some note attracting crowds of up to 10,000 at a time. Grattan Guinness had been strongly influenced by James Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China I...