{"id":446,"date":"2012-09-25T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2012-09-25T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:00:37","slug":"to-africa-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/09\/25\/to-africa-with-love\/","title":{"rendered":"To Africa with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reports of the Glasgow African Missionary Society
New College Library Special Collections Z Collection Z.858\/9-16<\/p><\/div>\n

Today’s Centre for the Study of World Christianity Research Seminar<\/a> is presented by Dr Jack Thompson, ‘African mission photography: Light on Darkness\u2019.<\/p>\n

This item, Reports of the Glasgow Missionary Society<\/em>,\u00a0from New College Library’s Z Collections, is a printed record of missionary activity, evidence of the\u00a0hundreds of Missionary Scots at work across Africa.\u00a0\u00a0I was charmed to find that among them was a Dr John Love (perhaps an ancestor of mine?)\u00a0one time secretary of the Glasgow Missionary Society. The Church of Scotland’s first important missionary station in Africa, at Kaffaria (established in 1830), was named Lovedale after him.\u00a0\u00a0New College Library also holds in its archives a\u00a0volume\u00a0of illustrations of Church of Scotland missions in\u00a0South Africa (Gen. 827F), which\u00a0features\u00a0Lovedale. Further details can be searched online at www.mundus.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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