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title: 'A Brief History of the Western Foreign Missionary Society'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr.'
date: 1930-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
scriptures:
- 'Revelation 3'
- 'Isaiah 49'
- 'Matthew 28'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/pears-1930-a-brief-history-of-the-western-foreign-missionary-society
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# A Brief History of the Western Foreign Missionary Society

History of the Western Foreign Missionary Society (org. 1831) and Western Theological Seminary's missionary origins. Traces Presbyterian zeal for foreign missions and the Great Commission.

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