Since the missionary enterprise started receiving scientific treatment, it became clear to its investigators that the goal of Christian missions is the conversion of the heathen and the planting of the Church. The mere affirmation of this fact immediately places the Holy Spirit at the very center of mission work since the conversion of the […]

This article covers familiar ground for many of our readers who are committed to the cause of Christian education in parent-controlled schools; but it is by no means superfluous to repeat the truths stressed here. We know that many of those who send their children to such schools do not know about the historical roots […]

It was only three and a half centuries after Brazil was discovered that the first missionaries arrived to evangelize that nation. Dr. Robert Reid Kalley, a medical missionary who had worked in Portugal, was now fleeing from a terrible religious persecution in an island called Madeira, where he was laboring. He came to Brazil in 1855 […]