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5 - Evangelical Anglicans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2011

Hilary M. Carey
Hilary M. Carey
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University of Newcastle, New South Wales
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In 1883, the veteran missionary to the isolated settlement of Cardiff in the remote Canadian northwest wrote to the home committee of the Colonial and Continental Church Society (CCCS) pleading to be allowed to resign:

The exposure of last winter has put me in such a state that I am not the man I was for this back-block mission. My dear wife and son are dead, my other two sons are obliged to leave me, so that my helpers are gone. I have never asked for a holiday, for my work here has been one great holiday to me; but it is now too hard for me. There is more suffering in the back bush of Canada than I ever saw in England. To see so much work before one, and not be able to get at it, is very trying.

This letter was published in a short account of the work of the Society published in 1896, and it reflects the qualities that characterised the public face of the Society: seriousness about religion, a relish for the frontier and its human and spiritual demands, and a call to fellowship. Colonial missions, such testimonies demonstrate, required the same heroism and sacrifice as missions to heathen lands. Men and women like this were needed in the colonies, so why not come and join us?

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God's Empire
Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801–1908
 , pp. 148 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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  • Evangelical Anglicans
  • Hilary M. Carey, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
  • Book: God's Empire
  • Online publication: 04 February 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921650.008
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  • Evangelical Anglicans
  • Hilary M. Carey, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
  • Book: God's Empire
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921650.008
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  • Evangelical Anglicans
  • Hilary M. Carey, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
  • Book: God's Empire
  • Online publication: 04 February 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921650.008
Available formats
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