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4 days ago · Memoir od robert moffat; missionary to south africa by M.L. Wilder. Publication date 1887 Publisher Fleming H. Revell Company Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor
1 day ago · Mncumbatha Khumalo and his delegation were taken to Robert Moffat’s mission station called Kuruman in the present-day Northern Cape province in South Africa. Robert Moffat was a Scottish Christian missionary who worked among the Tswana people from around 1821 to 1870. Kuruman was named after a local Tswana chief known as Khudumane.
2 days ago · Moffat was already stationed at Kuruman north of Cape Town, South Africa, and in his lecture he shared the following: “In the vast plain to the north, I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages, where no missionary has ever been.” 3 Livingstone at once felt here was a place he was needed and with the approval of the Missionary Society he sailed the 2,000 miles to Cape Town in Africa.
4 days ago · Robert Moffat, a pioneer of missionary work in Africa, was a member of the church as was his daughter, Mary, who married David Livingstone. Robert Browning was baptized there in 1812 and [Sir] Henry Doulton in 1821.
2 days ago · Life and work of Robert Moffat, with particular reference to the expansion of missions and white settlement north of the Orange River, 1817–70. W.C. Northcott. London Ph.D. 1961.
5 days ago · On March 14, 1841, the famous English missionary David Livingstone arrived in South Africa as a missionary determined to evangelize Africans. The astute Scot would spend about 15 years in the interiors of Africa, evangelizing the people and exploring the land.
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4 days ago · Early Protestant missions. Protestant missions emerged well after Martin Luther launched the Reformation in 1517; Protestants began to expand overseas through migration, notably to North America. European colonization of North America aroused interest in Native Americans, and the Virginia and Massachusetts charters enjoined their conversion.
