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30-761: The moving spirit in founding the society in 1877 was the Baptist pastor Alfred Tilly. He gained support from the Cory brothers of Cardiff, and called on Henry Grattan Guinness and his wife Fanny to launch a mission to the interior of the Congo. Alfred Tilly resigned as secretary in October 1880 and was replaced by Fanny Guinness, a superb administrator, with the mission becoming part of the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions. Fanny Guinness recorded

60-538: A History of Ireland , worked on the Daily Express as a journalist until 1898. The radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi reported for the newspaper on the Kingstown Regatta of July 1898, and he did so by sending wireless messages from a steam tug which were then telephoned to Dublin. This has been claimed as the first live transmission of a sporting event anywhere in the world. In 1899, the paper

90-637: A Conservative newspaper established in 1851, had for a time the greatest circulation of any paper in Ireland. It was regarded as the organ of the gentry , Protestant clergy, and the professional and commercial classes who afterwards flocked to the Irish Times . In 1858, Karl Marx , writing in the New York Tribune , called the paper "the Government organ": The shifts the Government

120-780: A Roman Catholic, had served as a Congregational minister in Armagh and as a general missionary for the Irish Evangelical Society . He was the author of A Guide from the Church of Rome to the Church of Christ (1836) and in 1838 had founded the Christian Patriot newspaper in Belfast . He was also the author of a prize-winning essay called The Rights of Ireland (1845). In December 1858, Lola Montez , visiting Dublin, wrote an angry but inaccurate letter to

150-554: A cautionary note concerning funding in the constitution of the society in her 1890 book: The first missionaries to reach the Congo were Henry Craven of Liverpool, and Strom, a Danish sailor. They reached Matadi in February 1878. In March 1880, Adam McCall launched an expedition to travel up the navigable section of the river 100 miles (160 km) to Yellala Falls , then force its way up the 232 miles (373 km) stretch of rapids and obstacles to Stanley Pool . With great difficulty

180-559: 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

210-859: 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 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

240-416: 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

270-566: 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. Daily Express (Dublin) The Daily Express of Dublin (often referred to as the Dublin Daily Express , to distinguish it from the Daily Express of London) was an Irish newspaper published from 1851 to June 1921, and then continued for registration purposes until 1960. It

300-438: Is driven to may be judged from the manoeuvres of The Dublin Daily Express , the Government organ, which day by day treats its readers to false rumours of murders committed, armed men marauding, and midnight meetings taking place. To its intense disgust, the men killed return from their graves, and protest in its own columns against being so disposed of by the editor. The paper's first editor, James Godkin , although brought up as

330-637: 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

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360-678: 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

390-636: The 40 feet (12 m) steam launch Livingstone , launched on the lower Congo in May 1881. By 1881 the mission had established four missions on the lower Congo. That year they made their first converts, who traveled back to London for the first baptism in 1882. In the first five years, three men and one woman died. By 1884 the LIM had scattered missions along the south shore of the Congo as far as Stanley pool, but their sponsors were running into financial difficulty. The American Baptist Missionary Union offered to take over

420-629: The West Indies, Mexico, Texas, and Caribbean Sea area. He returned to England in 1853. In 1854 he 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

450-548: 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

480-466: The editor of the Daily Express dealing with events which had taken place almost fifteen years earlier. She insisted that, when Dujarier died, she was living in the house of a Dr and Mrs Azan, and that "the good Queen of Bavaria wept bitterly when she left Munich ." The newspaper's editor responded in kind, declaring "It is now well established that Lola Montez was born in 1824, her father being

510-545: The expedition got as far as Bemba by the end of October, when the rains began and prevented all further progress. Meanwhile the Henry Reed , a 71 feet (22 m) wood-burning steamer with a shallow draft had been shipped out from England in sections. It was carried up the river to Stanley pool by 1,000 porters, reaching Leopoldville in April 1881, and after assembly was launched on 24 November 1881. The mission also acquired

540-514: 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

570-562: The newspaper, and its pro-British reputation is mentioned in his story " The Dead ". One of Joyce's reviews troubled the Daily Express ' s editor, Ernest Longworth, so much that he broke with tradition and added Joyce's initials to it. Published on 26 March 1903, this was a hostile review of Lady Gregory 's Poets and Dreamers . During the Easter Rising of 1916, rebels entered the grounds of Dublin Castle and took possession of

600-738: The offices of the Dublin Daily Express , from the roof of which they could command the approaches to the Castle from Dame Street , Castle Street, and Cork Hill to the Upper Castle Yard. British troops regained possession later the same day. Following the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent creation of the Irish Free State , the Daily Express ceased publications. However, it continued to exist for registration purposes until 1960. Archived copies of

630-505: The operation, and the LIM was glad to accept. In April 1887, on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha , Henry Morton Stanley found when he reached Stanley Pool that the boats he had been promised were not available. He forced the LIM missionaries to lend him the Henry Reed . Henry Grattan Guinness Henry Grattan Guinness (11 August 1835 – 21 June 1910) was an Irish Nonconformist Protestant preacher, evangelist and author. He

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660-684: 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

690-549: 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 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

720-729: The son of a baronet." In November 1881, Charles Boycott faced severe difficulties from the Irish Land League on the estate of John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne , and men of the Orange Order mounted the Lough Mask House Relief Expedition. The Daily Express donated food and supplies. At the time it was owned by Lord Ardilaun . Standish James O'Grady (1846–1928), a figure in the Irish Literary Revival and author of

750-708: 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

780-424: Was a unionist newspaper. From 1917, its title was the Daily Express and Irish Daily Mail . In its heyday, it had the highest circulation of any paper in Ireland. It was founded by the Dublin solicitor John Robinson, who remained its proprietor until about 1889, when he sold it to James Poole Maunsell. In his Post Famine Ireland (2006), Desmond Keenan says of the newspaper: The Dublin Daily Express ,

810-693: 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

840-521: Was the forum for the 'Atkinson controversy' about the evidence of Robert Atkinson to the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Commission, and in a letter to the paper published on 15 February 1899, Douglas Hyde , a future President of Ireland, referred to "that Stygian flood of black ignorance of everything Irish which, Lethe -like, rolls through the portals of my beloved Alma Mater ." In 1902 and 1903, James Joyce wrote many reviews for

870-691: Was the grandson of Arthur Guinness and Olivia Whitmore. His father was John Grattan Guinness (1783–1850), Arthur's youngest son, who 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

900-686: Was the great evangelist of the Third Evangelical awakening and preached during the Ulster Revival of 1859 which drew thousands to hear him. He 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

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