"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.

A United Brethren memorial edition published in 1898 of United Brethren missionaries who lost their lives in West Africa serving the church. The book includes biographies (and photos of several) of Isaac Newton Cain, Mary Elizabeth Mutch Cain, Mary C. Archer, Marietta Hatfield, Ella Schenck, Lowry A. and Clara B. Mcgrew, and others. Chapters describe the history and geography of West Africa and Sierra Leone, including details of West African tribal life and native society practices and customs, all written from the perspective of 1898 United Brethren Christian leaders. Missionary endeavors are described. An interesting, historic book reflecting missionary intentions, beliefs in the conversion of native peoples in Africa, and narratives on the lives and deaths of the missionaries. The book is written from the viewpoint of 1898 knowledge of Africa. There are some maps of the era, of interest to a researcher seeking knowledge of how things were in those years and times.

This study focuses on the United Brethren in Christ, an important church tradition which began as a pioneering movement of interdenominational revitalization in the decades immediately following the first Great Awakening in eighteenth century America. Its ministry in Sierra Leone West Africa is generally recognized as establishing the most influential and vital Christian presence in that former British colony that had been a key cog in the eighteenth century British slave trade. Jeremy Smith's treatment of his subject comes from a quite different angle of interest from previous scholarship on the subject. Drawing from the philosophical pragmatism of William James and the phenomenology of Husserl, among others, he probes the dynamics of what it means to inculcate a "sense of the life of living beings around us from within," as seen in the context of the missionary work of Lloyd Mignerey, an early twentieth century American UB missionary to Sierra Leone. Here is the first treatment of this key mission in the development of indigenous Christianity among West African tribal society that approaches its subject from an epistemological perspective. In doing so, it honors the faithful missional efforts of Mignerey and the hundreds of others who served in that important UB mission field for almost 160 years. Yet, in addition to that, it also contributes to a larger discussion of what religious dynamics are involved in the deeper quest for God that transcends the limitations of religious language and social ethos. Viewed in the ethos of the United Brethren in Christ, this was also a quest for the new humanity that is formed out of the Christian experience of Pentecost-a theme to which the United Brethren explicitly appealed in their missional self-understanding. Viewed from that perspective, this sensitive study also contributes to the deeper meaning of Christian revitalization.

Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive committee, 1883/84-1907/1908.