The German Reformed Church and the Home Missionary Movement before 1863

Shortly before the opening of the nineteenth century there began what American historians have chosen to call the Home Missionary Movement. This phenomenon in American social and religious history must not be confused with "church extension," for its purpose was not to extend religious denominations as such. but rather to "save souls." This missionary enterprise was carried out chiefly by various missionary "societies"-both denominational and interdenominational. Some of these groups were all-inclusive in their missionary interests, but others were limited to specific phases of the work, such as the distributional enterprises. While these organizations flourished along the Atlantic seaboard, their chief concern was the spiritual welfare of the inhabitants of the frontier where the easterners believed that shameful lawlessness and immorality prevailed

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• The American Missionary Spirit, 1828-1835

  Open Access•J Orin Oliphant•Church History•1938

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