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28-731: The leading figure in establishing the mission was Henry ("Harry") Grattan Guinness II, born in Toronto on 2 October 1861, son of the charismatic preacher Henry Grattan Guinness . Harry Guinness studied at the London Hospital from 1880 to 1885, then spent two years as a minister in Australia and Tasmania. In June 1887 Harry Guinness became leader of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions, which his parents had established. In 1888 there

56-559: A larger home. In 1883, Elizabeth Hulme offered Guinness "Cliff House" near Calver , Derbyshire. Harley College was renamed Hulme Cliff College. Now known as Cliff College it still trains and equipping Christians for mission and evangelism. In 1873 Guinness founded the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions , the root of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union . In 1877 he founded

84-503: A rigid view of right and wrong, condemning practices such as polygamy, immodest dress and lascivious dancing. On the other hand, they sometimes mocked Africans who attempted to imitate European ways too closely. Despite these handicaps, the missionaries succeeded in communicating the essence of their faith, which the local people adopted, adapted and assimilated. In 1899 the CBM sent its first missionaries to India, and in 1900 changed its name to

112-416: Is a pandemonium." His wife having died in 1898, from 1903 to 1907 Guinness went on world missionary tours before retiring in 1908 to Bath, Somerset , where he died. His daughter, and later author, Mary Geraldine Guinness married Frederick Howard Taylor , the son of China Inland Mission founder J. Hudson Taylor. She was one of seven children who entered Christian ministry. Dr. Gershom Whitfield Guinness

140-664: Is a reference to the goal declared by Paul the Apostle in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians , "To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you". ( 2 Cor 10:16 ) The society issued a journal named "Regions Beyond". RBMU merged with EUSA (Evangelical Union of South America) to form Latin Link in 1991. The Britain & Ireland and International offices of Latin Link are both based separately in Reading . This article about

168-407: Is an active author and speaker today. I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead. Regions Beyond Missionary Union The Regions Beyond Missionary Union was a Protestant Christian missionary society founded by Henry Grattan Guinness , D.D. and his wife Fanny in 1873. The name

196-579: The Regions Beyond Missionary Union (RBMU). The RBMU was to expand into many other parts of the world. By 1916 the RBMU had forty-one missionaries in the Congo, in nine stations scattered over an area the size of England. In 1932 the RBMU founded the Baringa Hospital, and in 1945 opened a second hospital at Yoseki. By 1955 there were 32,000 church members, and 9,000 children in the mission's schools in

224-637: The East End of London. They started the East London Missionary Training Institute (also called Harley College) at Harley House in Bromley-by-Bow , East End of London with just six students. The renowned Dr. Thomas Barnardo was co-director with Dr. Guinness and greatly influenced by him. The school trained 1330 missionaries for 30 societies of 30 denominations. Harley College became so successful it needed

252-678: The Livingstone Inland Mission , which worked in Congo, Argentina and Peru. His son Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness (1861–1915), known as Harry to distinguish him from his father, founded the Congo-Balolo Mission in 1888 and co-founded the Congo Reform Association in 1904. He traveled to India, where he wrote critically that to the people there, "God is everything, and everything is God, and, therefore, everything may be adored. ... Her pan-deism

280-490: The Bible in their own words. Many of the missionaries were from working-class backgrounds, and took pride in teaching their African students practical skills such as printing or carpentry. With these skills the CBM graduates were much in demand by the government. They were also at risk, in the eyes of the missionaries, from corruption by the loose standards of the larger towns where they went to work. The missionaries generally had

308-543: The Congo. [REDACTED] Media related to Congo-Balolo Mission at Wikimedia Commons Henry Grattan Guinness Henry Grattan Guinness (11 August 1835 – 21 June 1910) was an Irish Nonconformist Protestant preacher, evangelist and author. He was the great evangelist of the Third Evangelical awakening and preached during the Ulster Revival of 1859 which drew thousands to hear him. He

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336-655: The Mission Evangelique de l'Ubangi, but had difficulty reaching an agreement with the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission (DCCM), which had a rather different philosophy. An internal letter complained of the DCCM that "They have come into CBM villages, in some cases placing teachers and in other cases baptizing large numbers of natives without any reference to us". The missionaries arrived at a time of great stress. The Abir Congo Company of King Leopold II of Belgium

364-601: The administration, but she would also preach to audiences of men and women. He offered to join the China Inland Mission founded by James Hudson Taylor in 1865, but took Taylor's advice to continue his work in London. In September 1866 while in Keighley , Yorkshire, Guinness saw a notice advertising a series of lectures by the freethinker and communist Harriet Law . For a week he held a series of meetings at

392-476: The first thirty five CBM missionaries were alive by 1900. According to Fanny Guinness, "The basis of the Congo Balolo Nission is interdenominational, simply Christian and thoroughly evangelical. Members of any of the evangelical churches are welcomed as workers in it". However, the mission found some of the neighboring missions easier to work with than others. The CBM signed a comity agreement with

420-514: The help of Professor John Couch Adams , some astronomical tables and examination of the scriptures, Guinness worked out the prophetic chronology of the bible in terms of a series of "solilunar cycles." This proved to him that he was living at the end of the sixth unsabbatic day of creation, 6,000 years from Adam, and that the "redemption Sabbath" would soon arrive. This revelation became the subject of many books that he wrote, and many sermons. In 1872 Henry, Fanny and their six children were living in

448-643: The missionaries died, to be replaced by fresh volunteers. Only six of the first thirty five CBM missionaries were alive by 1900. The first party of volunteers left England in April 1889 and reached Matadi in August 1889, from where they trekked upstream to Stanley Pool. The society was given enough money to buy a side-paddle steamer named the Pioneer , which was shipped to the Congo, arriving in December 1889. The boat

476-774: The open air. Visited many cities and towns in the British Isles. During this time it is claimed that he was persecuted by Roman Catholics. From 1858 to 1860 he was in Canada and had a part in A. B. Simpson 's conversion. He married Fanny Emma Fitzgerald in October 1860. They had a son named Harry, who was born October 2, 1861, in Toronto, Canada. The Dublin Daily Express wrote in 1858: Mr. Guinness preached yesterday in York Street Chapel. The attendance

504-684: The same time to try to counteract her influence. He was appalled at the "scoffing unbelief" of such speakers. In 1868 he went to France, and helped the Evangelisation Populaire and the McCall Mission. He stayed there 18 months. In this same year Guinness and his wife published The Regions Beyond and Illustrated Missionary News , which was edited by Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness. The magazine would give accounts of missions and missionaries including those in Africa and China. With

532-608: The tributaries of the Congo south and west of the great bend of that river. Dr. Murdoch supported the plan, agreeing to release McKittrick and also to loan the former LIM steamer Henry Reed for a year. The new mission was called the Congo Balolo Mission, with plans to operate on six southern tributaries of the Congo: the Lulonga , Maringa , Lopori , Ikelemba , Juapa and Bosira . During the years that followed many of

560-708: The various professions, the rank and fashion of the metropolis have been drawn out. Among them the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Justice of Appeal, etc. From 1860 to 1872 he was a travelling evangelist in France, America, the Near East and the British Isles. He was compared by some to George Whitefield. Fanny was a partner in the missionary work and she was not only responsible for

588-565: Was "sick unto death" when starting for the East Indies. So returning home, he repented and resolved to serve the Master. In January 1856 Guinness entered New College in London under a tutor named Dr. Harris. Possessed of extraordinary talent; his gift was that he spoke the language of the people, not the scholar. He preached much while still a student and in 1857 he was ordained an evangelist and began preaching to large audiences, as well as in

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616-584: Was a World Missionary Convention at Exeter Hall in London. Harry was able to talk with Dr. Murdock, the leader of the American Baptist Missionary Union (ABMU), who had taken responsibility to the Livingstone Inland Mission (LIM) four years earlier. Harry had become enthusiastic about the plans of John McKittrick, a former LIM missionary now working for the ABMU, who wanted to extent the field of missionary activity further upstream into

644-693: Was a medical missionary to China who escaped the Boxer Rebellion and went on to found the first hospital in Henan south of the Yellow River . A granddaughter, Ruth Eileen, married the famous geneticist and statistician Ronald Fisher , one of those responsible for Neo-Darwinism . His daughter Lucy wrote Across India at the Dawn of the 20th Century , about her hopes of converting the heathen natives to Christianity. His great-grandson Os Guinness

672-714: Was an officer in the Madras Army of the East India Company . His mother was Jane Lucretia D'Esterre, whose first husband Captain John Norcot D'Esterre had been killed in a duel in 1815 by Daniel O'Connell , who remorsefully paid her an annuity . In 1853 at 17 years old, and somewhat backslidden in his faith, Guinness went to sea. During that year he visited the West Indies, Mexico, Texas, and Caribbean Sea area. He returned to England in 1853. In 1854 he

700-486: Was greater than on any former occasion. In the evening it amounted to 1600, and if there were a place large enough, five times the number would have been present, to hear this highly gifted preacher. The interest which he has excited has daily increased and probably will continue to do so, during his labours in Dublin. An enormous crowd pressed for admittance. Judges, members of Parliament, orators, Fellows of College, lights of

728-544: Was responsible for training and sending hundreds of " faith missionaries " all over the world. Guinness was born in Montpelier House, Kingstown in Taney , Dublin, Ireland. He was homeschooled by his parents and later at Cheltenham and Exeter under Rev. Dr. Mills and Rev. C. Worthy. He was the grandson of Arthur Guinness and Olivia Whitmore. His father was John Grattan Guinness (1783–1850), Arthur's youngest son, who

756-472: Was then carried in sections to Stanley Pool where it was rebuilt and launched. By March 1891, first using the Henry Reed and then the Pioneer , the CBM missionaries had established stations.at Bonginda, Lulonga, Ikau and Bongandanga. During the years that followed many of the missionaries died of accidents or diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness , to be replaced by fresh volunteers. Only six of

784-433: Was using brutal techniques to coerce the local population into producing rubber, the slave trade continued, and new epidemic diseases were causing considerable loss of life. This disruption and apparent failure of the old systems may have made the people more receptive to the new message brought by the missionaries. The missionaries taught local people to spread the word, and these evangelists communicated their understanding of

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