1817 HT: Dan Graves Once when young Timothy Dwight did not show up for dinner, his parents went looking for him, fearing tragedy. They found him under an apple tree, surrounded by Indians. Four-year-old Timothy was instructing the American natives in the catechism. The boy, grandson of colonial preacher, revival leader and educator Jonathan Edwards,…
Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh, writes, “I’m resuming our articles with a series on Scottish missionaries to Africa in the 19th century. They had a huge impact on this sub-Saharan continent. The first is Robert Moffat from Ormiston, who pioneered so much among the populous Batswana people of southern Africa, and became an inspiration for David…
1915 HT: Dan Graves MARY SLESSOR was one of the best-known missionaries of the nineteenth century. A hard childhood in Scotland prepared her for the strenuous life of the mission field. By age eleven she was working in a mill, preparing jute and flax for weavers. As she grew older she became a weaver, able…
