157
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
→Brethren
There was no missionary society as such; individuals were commissioned and sent out as mission workers by their assembly (local congregation).
In the UK, a centralised service was provided from Bath to produce and distribute a regular prayer newsletter and to provide specialised support services. During WWII, Bath was bombed and the Echoes of Service records were destroyed by fire.
In 2004 no longer active Echoes of Service correspondence files relating to individual missionaries and married couples were transferred on permanent loan to the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester. While all of these records are post-1945, many of the missionaries would have been active in 1930s. An ''Echoes of Service papers'' handlist now on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20101122055301/http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/brethren/manuscripts/catalogued/files/fileuploadmax10mb,142849,en.pdf Wayback Machine] alphabetically lists the missionaries covered in these files and their country of service. Most importantly, the John Rylands University library also holds copies of the magazine ''Echoes of service : a record of labour for the Lord in other lands'' from 1885 onwards, and its predecessor ''The missionary echo : a record of labour for the Lord in other lands'' from 1872. Copies have been [https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search/what/Periodicals?q=echoes+of+service&sort=reference_number%2Cimage_sequence_number digitized] and are available on line under the collected title ''Echoes of service''.
