Christianity In Polynesia A Study and a Defence

Published by William Brooks and Co., Sydney, Australia, 1899

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This book is in Good only condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some lightish bumping and rubbing. There are several tiny nicks to the spine ends, and noticeable toning / sunningto the spine and front and rear panels, along with spots of foxing / discoloration. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper, along with an ink stamp from the Park Chapel Crouch End Lending Library. "Having 'fallen in love' with Australia in 1863, King returned to Victoria where he continued to promote the Protestant missionary cause in the Pacific. He was Congregational minister at Sandhurst (Bendigo) in 1874-81 and at South Melbourne in 1881-89. From 1883 he gradually assumed much of the work of the L. M. S. In Australia, particularly in Melbourne as the president of its Victorian auxiliary, and revisited Samoa on deputation in 1887. While in London in 1889 he was invited by the directors to become their organizing agent for Australasia. For twenty-two years, until his resignation in 1911, King was an important link between missionaries in the field, the home society and government, particularly the administrations of British New Guinea and Papua. He was on terms of close friendship with George Brown, James Chalmers, Sir William MacGregor and Albert Maclaren. He claimed that his annual journeys in Australia and New Zealand averaged about 12,000 miles (19,000 km) and that he had 'the largest speaking acquaintance of any man in Australia'." (Australian Dictionary of Biography).

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Title
Christianity In Polynesia A Study and a Defence
Author
King, Rev. Joseph
Publisher
William Brooks and Co., Sydney, Australia
Publication year
1899
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition; 1st Printing.

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