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Heroes of the Cross
Publisher: Oliphants Ltd.
Place: London and Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Date: 1953-1962.
David Livingstone
London and Edinburgh: Oliphants Ltd., 1960 (Heroes of the Cross).
Hardback with colour pictorial dustwrapper.
HEROES OF THE CROSS (OLIPHANTS LTD.)
Series Note: Heroes of the Cross was a series of biographies of missionaries and others serving the Christian cause as explorers, doctors, engineers, etc. in previous centuries. The titles were written for an audience of children and young people. The series was also published in the same period (1953-1962) by the Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States and by Marshalls, Basingstoke, United Kingdom in 1982.
Title / Author / Year of Publication
Charles W. Abel: Papuan Pioneer
by Mary K. Abel
1957
Charles Abel (1863–1930) was a British Congregationalist missionary in the Territory of Papua.
David Brainerd
by Winifred M. Pearce
1953
David Brainerd (1718-1747) was an American Presbyterian missionary in colonial North America.
William Chalmers Burns
by Phyllis Matthewman
1954
William Chalmers Burns (1815-1868) was a Scottish evangelist and missionary to China.
William Carey
by P. M. Stevenson
1953
William Carey (1761-1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist active in India.
James Chalmers. [A Biography for Children.]
by P. M. Stevenson [Phyllis Mary Stevenson]
1953
James Chalmers (1841-1901) was a Scottish-born missionary, active in Rarotonga and New Guinea.
Thomas Coke
by Stanley Sowton
1955
Thomas Coke (1747-1814) was the first Methodist bishop. He co-founded Methodism in America and then established the Methodist missions overseas.
Dan Crawford
by Alec Richard Evans
1956
Daniel Crawford (1869-1926), also known as 'Konga Vantu', was a Scottish missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa.
Christina Forsyth
by Winifred M. Pearce
1956
Christina Moir Forsyth (1844-1919) was a missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to the Mfengu people of South Africa.
Adoniram Judson
by D. I. Badcock
1953
Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was an American Particular Baptist missionary who worked in Burma for almost 40 years.
David Livingstone
David Livingstone. [A Biography for Children.]
1953; 1960; new ed., 1962
David Livingstone (1813-1873) was a Scottish doctor, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa.
James B. McCullagh
by Phyllis Matthewman
1957
James Benjamin McCullagh (1854–1921) was an Anglican missionary in British Columbia.
Alexander Mackay: Missionary and Engineer
by Alec Richard Evans
1956
Alexander Murdoch Mackay (1849-1890) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Uganda.
The Marechale
by Winifred Mary Pearce
1956
Catherine Booth-Clibborn (also known as Katie Booth and "la Maréchale") (1858-1955) was a British Salvation Army officer and evangelist who extended the Salvation Army into France and Switzerland.
Samuel Marsden
by Cyril James Davey
1957
Samuel Marsden (1765-1838) was a Church of England chaplain, missionary, agriculturalist and magistrate active in New Zealand and New South Wales.
Robert Moffat
by J. C. Western-Holt
1962
Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa from 1817 to 1870.
Robert Morrison
by Phyllis Matthewman
1957
Robert Morrison, FRS (1782-1834) was a British Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator.
John G. Paton
by Winifred M. Pearce
1962
John Gibson Paton (1824-1907), born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides in the South Pacific.
Irene Petrie
by Phyllis Matthewman
1955
Irene Petrie (1864-1897) was a British missionary who died in Kashmir in 1897.
Sam Pollard. [With a Portrait.]
by Edward H. Moody
1956
Samuel Pollard (1864-1915) was a British Methodist missionary to China with the China Inland Mission.
Mary Slessor, the White Queen of Calabar
by Alec Richard Evans
1953
Mary Mitchell Slessor (1848-1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria.
Johanna Veenstra
by Winifred Mary Pearce
1957
Johanna Veenstra (1894-1933) was the first missionary of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) to go to Nigeria.
John Wesley
by Stanley Sowton
1954
John Wesley (1703-1791) was an English cleric, theologian, evangelist, missionary and Methodist leader.
John Williams
by Phyllis Matthewman
1954
John Williams (1796-1839) was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific.
Author: David Paul Wagner