Launching Marsden's mission : the beginnings of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand, viewed from New South Wales

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Launching Marsden's mission : the beginnings of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand, viewed from New South Wales

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"In 1794 the Rev Samuel Marsden became the second Chaplain to the Colony of New South Wales. Both Marsden and the first Chaplain, the Rev Richard Johnson, came to the Colony under the sponsorship of the Church of England Evangelicals. They had high hopes that New South Wales would be the base from which the 'everlasting gospel' would sound forth to achieve the salvation of the 'poor benighted heathens' of the South Seas. To this end Marsden began the mission to New Zealand on Christmas Day, 1...

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Date created

2014

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David Pettett / Peter Bolt / Latimer Trust

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London, England, United Kingdom

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Marsden, Samuel, 1765-1838 / Church Missionary Society. New Zealand Mission / Missionaries--New Zealand / Missions--New Zealand

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