Presbyterian Missions to Mexico

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American Presbyterians have long had a heart for foreign missions both far and near. With respect to “near,” Mexico holds a place of special importance. Here at Log College Press, we are developing a growing body of literature that speaks to that aspect of missionary endeavors. Consider the following as resources worth of historical study:

• James Gary Dale (1870-1960, ARP missionary), Mexico and Our Mission. (1910);

• Anthony Thomas Graybill (1841-1905, PCUS missionary) A Sketch of Our Work in Mexico (1898);

• Annie Ottaway Graybill (1859-1913, PUCUS missionary) Mexico (1908-1909);

• Presbyterian Church of the United States of America (PCUSA), Board of Foreign Missions, Historical Sketch of the Missions in Mexico and Guatemala (1904);

• Melinda Rankin (1811-1888, PCUSA missionary), Twenty Years Among the Mexicans: A Narrative of Missionary Labor (1875);

• William Alfred Ross (1873-1960), Sunrise in Aztec Land: Being an Account of the Mission Work that has been carried on in Mexico since 1874 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1922); and

• Henry Francis Williams (1848-1933), In Mexico and Cuba: The Near-Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1912).

Many Presbyterian missionaries have labored to preach Christ to Mexicans, often in the face of many hardships. We are thankful for their labors, and pray for those who continue to follow in their footsteps.

Source: The Gospel in All Lands (April 1881), p. 154.

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Missionary Stories at Log College Press

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If the history of missions work by American Presbyterians interests you, there is a goldmine to be discovered among the writings available at Log College Press. As Robert Dabney Bedinger wrote, “The providences of God run through the American Presbyterian Congo Mission like the vein of gold through the stratum of rock.” The stories that are told in these volumes will enrich, educate and inspire. Readers can explore the world and learn how the gospel has gone forth to all four corners of the planet.

We have many volumes by and about missionaries on the Missions page. Today we wish to highlight some of the new additions that tell the story in particular of Southern Presbyterian foreign missions, as well as other volumes that have been available here for some time. Within the following memoirs and historical accounts are told the stories men and women who followed the call of Christ to foreign lands to testify of his goodness and the gospel of his free grace by their lives and labors. Additionally, some have served as educators, translators, diplomats, medical workers and more to help those in need and to advance cross-cultural understanding and appreciation. Take time to get to know these stories. Pray for these lands. And consider the promise of God that “all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord” (Num. 14.21).

General

• Samuel Hall Chester, LIghts and Shadows of Mission Work in the Far East: Being the Record of Observations Made During a Visit to the Southern Presbyterian Missions in Japan, China, and Korea in the year 1897 (1899)

• Thomas Cary Johnson, A Brief Sketch of the Missions of the Southern Presbyterian Church (1895)

• Henry Francis Williams, In Four Continents: A Sketch of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. (1910)

Africa

• John Bailey Adger, Christian Missions and African Colonization (1857) and My Life and Times (1899)

• Robert Dabney Bedinger, Triumphs of the Gospel in the Belgian Congo: Being Some Account of the Mission Work that has been carried on in the Belgian Congo, since 1890 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1920)

• Hampden Coit DuBose, Memoirs of Rev. John Leighton Wilson, D. D. (1895)

• Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866-1892 (1893)

• James Adair Lyon, The Missionary Aspect of African Colonization (1850)

• William McCutchan Morrison, Letter to King Leopold II of Belgium (1903, 1921)

• William Henry Sheppard, Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo (1917)

• John Leighton Wilson, Western Africa: Its History, Condition, & Prospects (1856)

China

• Hampden Coit DuBose, Preaching in Sinim (1893)

• John Leighton Stuart, Fifty Years in China: The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador (1954)

• Henry Francis Williams, Along the Grand Canal: The Mid-China Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1911) and North of the Yangtze: The North Kiangsu Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1911)

• Samuel Isett Woodbridge, Sr., Fifty Years in China: Being Some Account of the History and Conditions in China and of the Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1867 to the present day (1919)

Japan

• Lois Johnson Erickson, The White Fields of Japan: Being Some Account of the History and Conditions in Japan and of the Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1885 to the Present Day (1923)

• Egbert Watson Smith, Present Day Japan (1920)

• Henry Francis Williams, In the Mikado’s Empire: The Japan Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1912)

Korea

• Anabel Major Nisbet, Day In and Day Out in Korea: Being Some Account of the Mission Work that has been carried on in Korea since 1892 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1920)

• Henry Francis Williams, In the Hermit Land: The Korea Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1912)

Latin America

• William Alfred Ross, Sunrise in Aztec Land: Being an Account of the Mission Work that has been carried on in Mexico since 1874 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1922)

• Henry Francis Williams, In Mexico and Cuba: The Near-Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1912)

South America

• James Porter Smith, An Anti-Protestant Riot in Brazil (1913)

• Henry Francis Williams, In South America: The Brazil Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1910) and In Brazil: Our Missions in Brazil (1917)