Presbyterian Mission Agency is the ministry and mission agency of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) . Founded as the Western Foreign Missionary Society by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1837, it was involved in sending workers to countries such as China during the late Qing dynasty and to India in the nineteenth century. Also known as the Foreign Missions Board in China, its name was changed by the Old School body during the Old School–New School Controversy to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions .
29-460: Notable for bringing up Bamba Muller who was a latter day " Cinderella " marrying the Black Prince of Perthshire . The Presbyterian Board of America transferred two of their missionaries from Singapore to China in 1843. It had four great centers. Guangzhou was entered in 1845, but it was sixteen years before they were able to baptise the first convert to Christianity . A medical hospital
58-437: A German father and Abyssinian (Ethiopian) mother, living in a Cairo mission to a Maharani living a life of luxury with the "Black Prince of Perthshire" has been compared to the " Cinderella " story. Bamba Müller was the daughter of Ludwig Müller, a German merchant banker with the company Todd Müller and Co., by his mistress of Abyssinian descent called Sofia. The name Bamba was Arabic for pink . Her father already had
87-621: A brief period of evangelistic success, the mission underwent a time of persecution in 1869, during which two converts were martyred. The mission did not fully recover until the late 1870s. In 1880, it founded three congregations including the Mae Dok Daeng Church, known today as the Suwanduangrit Church, Ban Dok Daeng . In 1885, the mission sponsored the founding of the Presbytery of North Laos, officially under
116-614: A small dispensary started in 1890 in the Miraj (Meer’-udge) Bazaar by Dr. William James Wanless pioneer Presbyterian medical missionary. The first of the present buildings was opened in 1894. In 1893, Presbyterian mission established Gordon College in Rawalpindi and was named after Dr Andrew Gordon who was the head of the mission. The Ewing Christian College , managed by the American Presbyterian Mission
145-665: A wide district a knowledge of the Gospel by its proclamation to the vast numbers who crowded from all the surrounding regions to the imperial city. The totals of the mission in 1890 were, forty-eight missionaries, eighteen lady agents, twenty-three ordained native pastors, eighty-four unordained native helpers, and nearly four thousand communicants. In 1838, the Fiske Seminary was founded the American Presbyterian Mission in Urmia , Qajar Persia (now Iran ). The first missionary of
174-649: A wife and he therefore placed his illegitimate daughter in the care of missionaries in Cairo . Her father had requested and paid for her education, and remained in contact with the missionaries. Müller became an enthusiastic and charismatic member of the Christian community and was the only female in a select group of communicants at the American Presbyterian Mission school in Cairo. Duleep Singh
203-605: The British Army whilst Frederick became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London . One of her daughters, Bamba Sophia Jindan, returned to Lahore as the wife of a Dr Sutherland. She was known as Princess Bamba Sutherland. In 1886 her husband resolved to return to India. On his way there he was arrested in Aden and forced to return to Europe. Bamba died on 18 September 1887 and was buried at Elveden . The cause of death
232-643: The Church of Christ in Thailand in 1934, an indigenous Thai denomination which eventually took over responsibility for both mission and social work when the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand was dissolved on August 19, 1957. The American Presbyterian Mission was opened at Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh, in 1836. In 1864, Forman Christian College was founded in Lahore by a Presbyterian missionary Charles William Forman . The Wanless Hospital had its beginning as
261-605: The Protestant missions in China. Hunter Corbett was a Pioneer of an American missionary to Yantai , Shandong China , he served with the American Presbyterian Mission. He was a powerful advocate of the missionary enterprise. He founded the Yi Wen School (Boy's Academy/ Hunter Corbett Academy) known as Cheeloo University , The first university in China. Hunter Corbett ministered in China for 56 years. Chester Holcombe
290-465: The Synod of New York City , to give oversight to the churches. By the 1890s, the mission increasingly emphasized medical and educational institutional work, founding boarding schools, such as Prince Royal's College and Chiang Rai Witthayakhom School , American printing house (Wangsingkam), hospitals and dispensaries in each of the stations. The churches, meanwhile, numbered 37 by 1920, the last year of
319-856: The American Presbyterian Mission board was William Buell, who arrived with his wife in Bangkok in 1840. Due to his wife's health problems, the couple returned to the United States in 1844. In 1847, Samuel Reynolds House and Stephen Mattoon and their wives arrived in Bangkok to begin mission work. These two couples, together with missionary Stephen Bush, founded Samray Church in 1849, the first Presbyterian church in Thailand. In 1863, missionaries Daniel McGilvary and Samuel Gamble McFarland opened work in Petchburi province, about 100 km east of Bangkok. In 1867, McGilvary moved to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, where he pioneered Christian work in
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#1732780970309348-816: The Lakawn Station); Lamphun (founded 1891 and made a sub-station of Chiang Mai in 1897); Phrae (1893): Nan (1895); and Chiang Rai (1896). In addition, the mission founded a station in 1903 to work with the Tai peoples of eastern Burma in Kengtung , which was closed in 1907; and it founded another station, the Chiang Rung Station, in Yunnan Province , southern China in 1917. The mission founded its first church, Chiang Mai Church, now known simply as First Church, Chiang Mai, in 1868. After
377-826: The demands of the British government . Duleep had been taken to Britain as a child. This was before he had been persuaded to agree to the annexation of the Punjab by the East India Company. This also included handing the diamond as well, which became part of the Crown Jewels. Singh was separated from his mother, Maharani Jindan Kaur . His mother remained in India, although eventually she was allowed to rejoin her son in England. Duleep collected her after special permission
406-546: The extensive printing operations of the Society were carried on. These comprised not only several presses which were constantly at work, but a foundry where seven sizes of Chinese type , besides English , Korean , Manchu , Japanese , Hebrew , Greek and others, were cast. There was also complete apparatus for electrotyping and engraving . Much translation work had been done by this Society, and hand books of Christian history and doctrine prepared by it were in use on most of
435-607: The mission, and communicate membership numbered 6,649 that same year. The presbytery continued in existence until 1934, when it was incorporated into the Church of Christ in Thailand . Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of the mission's members campaigned for mission expansion into the Shan States of Burma, which brought it into a protracted, time-consuming territorial dispute with the American Baptists in Burma. For
464-406: The missionaries there on 10 February 1864. He visited again a few days later and was taken around the girls' school, where he first met Bamba Müller, who was an instructor. She was the only girl there who had committed herself to a Christian life. On each visit Duleep made presents to the mission of several hundreds of pounds. Duleep Singh wrote to the teachers at the missionary school at the end of
493-519: The month in the hope that they would recommend a wife for him as he was to live in Britain and he wanted a Christian wife of Eastern origin. Queen Victoria had told Duleep that he should marry an Indian princess who had been educated in England, but he desired a girl with less sophistication. The final proposal had to be done via an intermediary as Duleep did not speak Arabic, Müller's only language. The missionaries discussed this proposal with Müller. She
522-985: The north. First Church in Chiang Mai was founded in 1868. The work in Northern Thailand was called the Laos Mission , and the work in Bangkok, Central Thailand, and Southern Thailand was called the Siam Mission . In 1879, Belle Caldwell Culbertson sailed for Indo-China as a missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions. For two years, she was principal of the Harriet House School for Girls in Bangkok . In January, 1880, in Siam, she married Rev. John Newton Culbertson, who
551-1081: The school and married Müller on 7 June 1864 in the British Consulate in Alexandria, Egypt . The ceremony was described as brief, with few witnesses. Both of them wore European dress though Duleep wore a turban. Bamba wore simple jewellery including pearls. She had a short sleeved, moire , antique dress, orange blossoms in her hair, and a veil. The Prince made his vows in English, whilst Bamba spoke in Arabic. The couple had three sons and three daughters whom they brought up at Elveden Hall in Suffolk , England. Her six children were: Victor Albert Jay (1866–1918), Frederick Victor (1868–1926), Bamba Sophia Jindan (1869–1957), Catherina Hilda (1871–1942), Sophia Alexandra (1876–1948), and Albert Edward Alexander (1879–1893). Victor and Frederick both joined
580-513: The school into an Industrial and Agricultural Educational Institute and instituted an extension service as The Sangli Moveable School. This brought improved agricultural techniques to the villages surrounding Sangli. He was appointed as a member of Bombay Literacy mission. Bamba Muller Bamba Müller (6 July 1848 – 18 September 1887) was the wife of Maharaja Duleep Singh , the last Maharaja of Lahore . Brought up by Christian missionaries, her transformation from illegitimate girl, born to
609-598: Was a very important factor in the work of the Mission. Missions in Macau and Hainan were sustained from this center. Hospital work had been a prominent feature in this Mission. Dr. Peter Parker commenced a hospital in 1835, which was transferred to this society in 1854, and placed under the care of Dr. John G. Kerr . The Central Mission had five main centers which branched out in many directions. These included Ningbo , Shanghai , Hangzhou , Fuzhou , and Anqing . At Shanghai
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#1732780970309638-484: Was among the missionaries who went on to join the American diplomatic service, following S. Wells Williams as secretary to the American legation in 1884. The Shantung (Shandong) Mission extends from the capital city, Chi-nan-foo Jinan , northwards to Yantai , and had many stations which reported about three thousand members in 1890. The Peking Mission was of latest date, and was doing much work in diffusing throughout
667-852: Was founded in Chiang Mai , northern Thailand by the Rev. Daniel McGilvary and Mrs. Sophia McGilvary in April 1867. It was established as a mission of the Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in the United States . The original vision for the mission came from Dr. Dan Beach Bradley , who himself once proposed starting a mission in the North . The Laos Mission included, at one time or another, six stations in Northern Siam : Chiang Mai (founded 1867); Lampang (founded in 1885 and originally known as
696-563: Was given. Duleep was allowed by the East India Company to visit India for the second time to bury his mother after she died in Britain, although the body remained at Kensal Green Cemetery for nearly a year whilst this was negotiated upon. His mother's ashes were not allowed to be buried in Lahore (the main city of the Punjab), but had to be placed in a memorial in Bombay instead. On his return from Bombay Duleep passed through Cairo and visited
725-638: Was opened in 1902 and had 70 pupils in 1904. In 1910 John Lawrence Goheen and Jane Goheen accepted an appointment from the American Presbyterian missionaries for missionary service in Sangli in the state of Maharashtra , India . John Lawrence Goheen and Jane Goheen arrived in India in 1911 and soon after he was placed in charge as the Principal at Sangli Boys School in Sangli. He transformed
754-615: Was reported as "comprehensive renal failure brought on by an acute case of diabetes, made worse by her drinking (of alcohol)". Bamba's husband went on to marry again in 1889 to Ada Douglas Wetherill and had two more children. Her son Albert Edward Alexander Duleep Singh died aged thirteen in Hastings on 1 May 1893 and was buried next to his mother. When Bamba's husband died, his body was brought back to England and buried with his wife and son at Elveden . Laos Mission The Laos Mission (also, North Laos Mission, North Siam Mission)
783-632: Was serving there with the same Board of Missions, and in 1881, they returned to the U.S. In 1913, the Laos Mission counted approximately 6000 Thai Christians converts in the North, and the Siam Mission counted approximately 600 Thai Christian converts in their jurisdiction. Missionaries in both the Siam Mission and Laos Mission founded schools and hospitals, as well as carrying on evangelistic work. American Presbyterian missionaries helped to found
812-674: Was the last ruler of the Sikh Empire , being dethroned by the East India Company after the Second Anglo-Sikh War . In 1863, Singh was being supervised in Britain where he was a friend of Queen Victoria and kept a large social circle. He was known as the "Black Prince of Perthshire" around his home in Scotland . Singh was given money by the East India Company administration on condition that he complied with
841-414: Was unsure whether to accept the proposal offered via the missionaries. Her first ambition was to rise to teach children in a missionary school. Her father was consulted but he left the choice to his daughter. Müller eventually made her decision after praying for guidance. She decided that the marriage was God's call for her to widen her ambitions. Singh made a substantial contribution of one thousand pounds to
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