Historical Documents

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions historical documents

 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

• A sermon, delivered in Boston, Sept. 16, 1813 : before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their Fourth Annual Meeting (1813)
• Memorial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions – Rufus Anderson (1863)
• The 100th of the Haystack prayer meeting celebrated at the 97th annual meeting of the American board in North Adams and by the Haystack centennial meetings at Williamstown, Mass (1907)
• Mission stories of many lands. A book for young people. With three hundred and forty illustrations (c 1885)

 Sermons from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

• A Sermon, Delivered in Boston, Sept. 16, 1813 (1813) by Timothy Dwight
• The Love of Christ the Motive to Missionary Effort: A Sermon, Preached at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the ABCFM by William Radcliffe Witt (1842)
• Progress, the law of the missionary work. A sermon preached in Rochester, N.Y., Sept., 1843, before the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, at their thirty-fourth annual meeting (1843)
• Our true encouragement. A sermon, preached at Buffalo, New York, September 8, 1847, before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their thirty-eighth annual meeting (1847)
• Ground of confidence in foreign missions : a sermon, preached at Portland, Maine, September 9, 1851, before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their forty-second annual meeting (1851)
• God’s purpose in planting the American church [microform]. A sermon, before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at the meeting in Boston, Mass., October 2, 1860 (1860)
• Christ’s Power, Our Warrant and the World’s Hope: A Sermon Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1879)
• The self-propagating power of Christianity : annual sermon before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions delivered at Oberlin, Ohio, October 14, 1902 (1902)

• Enlargement Through Service: Annual Sermon Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1904)

 ABCFM Missionary Correspondence

• Life and Letters of Rev. Daniel Temple: For Twenty-three Years a Missionary of the ABCFM (1855)
• Life and Letters of Samuel Fisk Green, M. D.: Of Green Hill (1891)
• Home letters of Gertrude Cozad, missionary of the American Board at Kobe, Japan, to her father Justus L. Cozad, of Cleveland, Ohio (1898)

 Mission Reports from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

• Report of the Deputation to the India Missions: made to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at a special meeting, held in Albany, N.Y., March 4, 1856 (1856)
• Instructions of the Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Sandwich Island Mission (1838)
• Report of the Deputation to the India missions, made to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at a special meeting, held in Albany, N.Y., March 4, 1856 (1856)
• Umzila’s Kingdom: A Field for Christian Missions (1880)
• Explorations for the mission to Umzila’s kingdom, Southeastern Africa (1882)
• The mission of the American Board to West Central Africa (1882)
• Correspondence and other documents relating to the troubles in the Turkish missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1883)
• Mission training school, Kioto Japan : its growth and promise, (1884)
• Report of the Osaka station of the Japan mission of the American Board. For the year ending March 31st, 1886 (1887)
• General Report of the Deputation Sent by the American Board to China in 1907 (1907)