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the forge rather than the normal sources of the ministry. Their deficiencies in formal education would not be inhibiting, since a knowledge of the dead languages was not necessary to the communication of the truth in living ones, and their practical skills would be a positive advantage. And find them they did; not less than 30 missionaries, with some wives and children, went off to the Pacific together in 1796. Four were ordained as ministers, one was a surgeon, most of the rest were artisans or labourers. One was so anxious to go that he worked his passage on the ship and was accepted as a missionary on arrival. The voyage took eight months, so the group naturally formed a gathered congregation on board ship (and had the sadness of having to excommunicate some of their number on doctrinal grounds). A short period in the islands produced a drastic thinning of the ranks by death and deser-tion, though one of the labourers went on to devote 48 years to the service of the mission and one of the artisans to give 45. Another group of 23 mis-sionaries was sent to the Pacific in 1798 but never got there, being intercepted by a French warship. By 1799, the year that saw the foundation
DOI link for the forge rather than the normal sources of the ministry. Their deficiencies in formal education would not be inhibiting, since a knowledge of the dead languages was not necessary to the communication of the truth in living ones, and their practical skills would be a positive advantage. And find them they did; not less than 30 missionaries, with some wives and children, went off to the Pacific together in 1796. Four were ordained as ministers, one was a surgeon, most of the rest were artisans or labourers. One was so anxious to go that he worked his passage on the ship and was accepted as a missionary on arrival. The voyage took eight months, so the group naturally formed a gathered congregation on board ship (and had the sadness of having to excommunicate some of their number on doctrinal grounds). A short period in the islands produced a drastic thinning of the ranks by death and deser-tion, though one of the labourers went on to devote 48 years to the service of the mission and one of the artisans to give 45. Another group of 23 mis-sionaries was sent to the Pacific in 1798 but never got there, being intercepted by a French warship. By 1799, the year that saw the foundation
the forge rather than the normal sources of the ministry. Their deficiencies in formal education would not be inhibiting, since a knowledge of the dead languages was not necessary to the communication of the truth in living ones, and their practical skills would be a positive advantage. And find them they did; not less than 30 missionaries, with some wives and children, went off to the Pacific together in 1796. Four were ordained as ministers, one was a surgeon, most of the rest were artisans or labourers. One was so anxious to go that he worked his passage on the ship and was accepted as a missionary on arrival. The voyage took eight months, so the group naturally formed a gathered congregation on board ship (and had the sadness of having to excommunicate some of their number on doctrinal grounds). A short period in the islands produced a drastic thinning of the ranks by death and deser-tion, though one of the labourers went on to devote 48 years to the service of the mission and one of the artisans to give 45. Another group of 23 mis-sionaries was sent to the Pacific in 1798 but never got there, being intercepted by a French warship. By 1799, the year that saw the foundation
ABSTRACT
CMS secretary, was saying that the college would not be necessary if the society could get enough candidates from the universities. Even at that late point the missionary vocation was seen as essentially belonging to the sphere of the ordained ministry, even though it was manifest that the ordinary sources for supplying that ministry could not fulfil it.