Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS AND LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE, 1796-1827
- CHAPTER II MINISTERIAL AND DOMESTIC. 1827-1839. DRYPOOL AND HIGHBURY
- CHAPTER III LETTERS. 1835-1846. DEATHS OF MISS A. SYKES AND MRS. VENN. RESIGNATION OF ST. JOHN'S, HOLLOWAY
- CHAPTER IV THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
- CHAPTER V PRIVATE JOURNAL, 1849-1856
- CHAPTER VI PERSONAL TRAITS
- CHAPTER VII LETTERS, 1846-1872
- CHAPTER VIII THE CLOSE
- APPENDIX
- A FOUNDERS OF C. M. SOCIETY, AND FIRST FIVE YEARS (1799—1804)
- B RETROSPECTIVE ADDRESS, MARCH 7, 1862
- C MINUTES ON THE ORGANISATION OF NATIVE CHURCHES
- D EPISCOPACY IN INDIA AND MADAGASCAR
- E POLITICS AND MISSIONS
- F MISSIONS IN THEIR VARIETY
- G SOME EMINENT MISSIONARIES
- H INDEPENDENT ACTION OF C. M. SOCIETY
- I THE PROPER INTERPRETATION OF THE BAPTISMAL SERVICE
- J COMMISSION ON CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION
- K RITUAL COMMISSION
L - NOTICE OF AFRICAN COMMERCE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS AND LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE, 1796-1827
- CHAPTER II MINISTERIAL AND DOMESTIC. 1827-1839. DRYPOOL AND HIGHBURY
- CHAPTER III LETTERS. 1835-1846. DEATHS OF MISS A. SYKES AND MRS. VENN. RESIGNATION OF ST. JOHN'S, HOLLOWAY
- CHAPTER IV THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
- CHAPTER V PRIVATE JOURNAL, 1849-1856
- CHAPTER VI PERSONAL TRAITS
- CHAPTER VII LETTERS, 1846-1872
- CHAPTER VIII THE CLOSE
- APPENDIX
- A FOUNDERS OF C. M. SOCIETY, AND FIRST FIVE YEARS (1799—1804)
- B RETROSPECTIVE ADDRESS, MARCH 7, 1862
- C MINUTES ON THE ORGANISATION OF NATIVE CHURCHES
- D EPISCOPACY IN INDIA AND MADAGASCAR
- E POLITICS AND MISSIONS
- F MISSIONS IN THEIR VARIETY
- G SOME EMINENT MISSIONARIES
- H INDEPENDENT ACTION OF C. M. SOCIETY
- I THE PROPER INTERPRETATION OF THE BAPTISMAL SERVICE
- J COMMISSION ON CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION
- K RITUAL COMMISSION
Summary
Mr. Venn's younger son and namesake rendered his father much assistance in the promotion of the material development of Africa, and has furnished the following notice of African commerce:
Mr. Venn early perceived that in Africa trade must go along with Christianity. This fact had been recognised long before in the earliest days of the mission to Sierra Leone, but after the failure of those early efforts the promotion of African trade had not been kept prominently in view by the secretaries of the Society. The necessity for this union of trade with religion has never existed in any other mission except in that of Metlahkatlah, on the shores of the North Pacific; and Mr. Venn would have been the last man to promote it if he had thought it any hindrance to the proper work of missions.
In West Africa he encouraged trade for two reasons—first as the chief means for the destruction of the slave trade, and secondly as promoting the independence of the native Christian Church.
Whilst the work of the Church Missionary Society was confined to the colony of Sierra Leone the missionaries experienced but little hindrance from the slave-trade. The prisoners released from captured slave-ships were brought to Sierra Leone, and there handed over to the missionaries; but the slavers themselves naturally avoided the colony.
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- Memoir of Henry Venn, B. D.Prebendary of St Paul's, and Honorary Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, pp. 509 - 516Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880