Quakers, or the Religious Society of Friends, have been making missionary efforts for centuries.
Men and women have made efforts from home and gone abroad to preach their religious message.
[1] It has been said that, "Most Quaker traveling preachers conformed to the 'evangelical' category in their attempt to annihilate their personal will to submit to the sovereign will of God.
In the Quaker community, it is argued that a higher emphasis has been placed on religiosity rather than home life for women.
These women experienced not only the perils of traveling in the Early Modern Period but also persecution and imprisonment.
Quaker missionaries in Sz-chwan, 1916.
A Quaker diary in the Orient.
Quaker pioneers in Russia.
Robert John Davidson and his wife Mary Jane Davidson at
Chengtu
.
Sybil Jones.
Silhouette portrait of
Hannah Kilham
(1774–1832) née Spurr, an English Methodist and Quaker, known as a missionary and linguist active in West Africa.
James Backhouse, botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia.
Isaac Mason, a
British Quaker
missionary stationed in
Szechwan
. He was the husband of Esther L. Mason, also a Quaker missionary.
Children at the School for Missionaries' children erected on the hills, on the south of
river Yang Tse
, opposite
Chungking
, opened in March, 1898. Five children of
Friend
Missionaries have been at the Hill School here: R. Huntley Davidson, Wilfred S. and Mabel Wigham, M. Irene Mason, and B. Ellwood Jackson.
