Steven S.Maugham, Mighty England Do Good: Culture, Faith, Empire, and World in the Foreign Missions of the Church of England, 1850-1915. Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014. 511 pp.

2015 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 416-419
Author(s):  
Ronald Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
The Church

‘Missionary Regiments for Immanuel’s Service’: Juvenile Missionary Organization in English Sunday Schools, 1841-1865

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 391-403
Author(s):  
Brian Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
East India Company ◽  
British India ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Sunday Schools ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Missionary Societies ◽  
The Church ◽  
School Movement

Juvenile associations in aid of foreign missions made their appearance both in the Church of England and in the Nonconformist churches in the wake of the successful campaign in 1813 to modify the East India Company charter in order to open British India to evangelical missionary work. The fervour which the campaign engendered led to the formation of numerous local associations in support of the missionary societies. In some cases these associations had juvenile branches attached. However, until the 1840s children’s activity in aid of foreign missions was relatively sporadic. Children’s missionary literature was almost non-existent. Such children’s missionary activity as did take place was confined largely to the children of church and chapel congregations; before the 1840s there was little perception of the vast potential for missionary purposes of the Sunday-school movement.

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