Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography, Christianity - Biographies

Authors: Elisabeth G. Stryker In Year : 1888

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

Introduction and Preface
Ancestry--Birth--Boyhood--Conversion
College--The Haystack--Efforts To Spread The Interest in Foreign Missions
Obookiah in Hawaii--in America
The Sandwich Islands with and without the Gospel
Mills at Andover--the American Board
An Apostolic Journey in the United
Mills' Second
The American Bible Society--the United Foreign Missionary Society
The American Colonization Society--Mills, as Its Agent, Visits Africa
The Last Journey

This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and also the first Bible Society that began distribution of millions of Bibles around the world. His final mission was to Africa where he helped found what become the country of Liberia. He died on the return voyage at the age of thirty-five. - Summary by Larry Wilson