Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. Founded in 1701, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, sometimes called the Venerable Society, conducted the foreign mission work of the Anglican Church in the American colonies and other English possessions overseas. Between 1702 and 1785, when it withdrew from the mission field in the United States, it sent out 309 ordained missionaries and distributed thousands of Bibles, tracts, and prayer books. It also sent out schoolteachers, medical missionaries, and libraries. In 1775 it was helping to support seventy-seven missionaries in the continental colonies, but as the Revolution progressed most of them were forced to retire.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Pascoe, F. C. Two Hundred Years of the S. P. G., 1701–1900: An Historical Account of the Society for the Propagation of Bible in Foreign Parts. London, 1901.
Hugh T.Lefler/a. r.
See alsoAmerican Bible Society ; Church of England in the Colonies .
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Revd Dr William M. Marshall