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A Note on the Sierra Leone Mission and Religious Freedom
Short, K.R.M.
Short, K.R.M.
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"ON 7th April 1795, members of the Baptist Missionary Society gathered at Amsby heard a letter read from their India missionaries wishing cc ••• that what had been applied to their support might now be employed for the support of some other Mission". Lack of money had prevented the society from expanding its work to other fields but small sums of money had been sent to the Presbyterian and Moravian societies as an expression of solidarity. Yet voices were heard at that meeting expressing the fear that the India missionaries, having become self-supporting through their involvement in "affairs of trade", might be "overcharged with the cares of this life and so rendered unfit for the work". There was little for the society to do, however, but accept the financial independence of the India missionaries led by Carey and Marshman and prayerfully search for God's will on the creation of a new mission field."
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1980
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