A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and also the first Bible Society that began distribution of millions of Bibles around the world. His final mission was to Africa where he helped found what become the country of Liberia. He died on the return voyage at the age of thirty-five. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Christianity - Biographies
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 00 | Introduction and Preface | Larry Wilson |
00:03:45 |
| Play 01 | Ancestry--Birth--Boyhood--Conversion | Larry Wilson |
00:09:10 |
| Play 02 | College--The Haystack--Efforts To Spread The Interest in Foreign Missions | Larry Wilson |
00:08:00 |
| Play 03 | Obookiah in Hawaii--in America | Larry Wilson |
00:08:30 |
| Play 04 | The Sandwich Islands with and without the Gospel | Larry Wilson |
00:03:57 |
| Play 05 | Mills at Andover--the American Board | Larry Wilson |
00:05:34 |
| Play 06 | An Apostolic Journey in the United | Larry Wilson |
00:04:46 |
| Play 07 | Mills' Second | Larry Wilson |
00:04:38 |
| Play 08 | The American Bible Society--the United Foreign Missionary Society | Larry Wilson |
00:07:49 |
| Play 09 | The American Colonization Society--Mills, as Its Agent, Visits Africa | Larry Wilson |
00:09:24 |
| Play 10 | The Last Journey | Larry Wilson |
00:02:48 |