[Photo Album and Diary of Missionary Work]

Edité par The Bahamas, 1947

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16" x 11½". Commercial post-bound scrapbook, cloth over boards. 15 leaves with 105 photos corner-mounted rectos + 6 items of ephemera and [8] pp. rectos typed diary (about 3,000 words) laid in. Photos range from 2¾" x 4½" to 3¼" x 5 ", 6 are color and all are captioned. Good due to album disbound; moderate edgewear affecting a few captions. Diary and photos very good or better with a few chips and soil spots; one photo lacking and one corner mount loose. This is a great photo album and diary revealing the work of several noted missionaries in the Bahamas. It is rich with detailed descriptions and fantastic images of natives, mission buildings, local sights and scenery. A thrilling travelogue covers one David Holtzinger's trip from the D.C. area to Andros Island over five weeks in early 1947 to visit Rev. and Mrs. C.J. Goodspeed, "Superintendents of West Indies Bible Mission." Goodspeed was born in 1914 and graduated from Florida's Intercession City Bible College. The school was run by pioneering missionary G.T. Bustin, who spent over 60 years preaching around the world. In 1940 Bustin founded the Evangelical Bible Mission in the Bahamas; it soon spread to Haiti and Papua New Guinea and is still active in 17 countries today. Goodspeed with his wife Edna later served in Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico and to the Navajo Indians, and he was one of the first instructors at Hobe Sound Bible College in Florida. The diary notes a Nassau tour with "Rev. Paul Ford and daughter Esther." Paul Ford (from Pennsylvania) founded a church and mission there, and Esther spent most of her life in service on the islands too. It details the families on the missions, what they did ("No services today. No word of Bustin party. Take bath native style in tub") and what they ate: "grits, pigeon peas and coconut milk." Prayers are also amply covered, as in: "The four native girls going to Haiti bible school sing 'Farewell Andros Island'. The audience is moved to tears . . . Everybody feels the spiritual uplift of this meeting, the like of which was never witnessed on this island before" and "Mother Marshal strikes up the song 'Onward Christian Soldiers' . . . With a lump in your throat ones feelings at such a time defy description." The album's vivid, well-captioned photos artfully illustrate the trip. We're shown "Homes of poor natives," thatched huts, mission buildings and a Bahamian mother and children on "Goodspeed Private Dock." There are fantastic Nassau street scenes, shots of horse and carriage "hackneys," the "largest of Native Boats," trees, farmlands and the "Lester Bennett Family Stationed at Mangrove Cay." Images reveal natives lined up for a "street meeting," the named "Bible students to Haiti" and a visit of the "Lebanon Valley Gospel Band." A few interesting items of ephemera include the rare first edition of The Pocket Guide and Business Directory of Nassau (1947), not found in OCLC. Thorough and wonderfully visual evidence of missionary work in the Bahamas.…

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Titre
[Photo Album and Diary of Missionary Work]
Auteur
Holtzinger, David
Éditeur
The Bahamas
Année de publication
1947
État de l'article
Good
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Couverture rigide
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Edition originale
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Afro-Caribbean, Religion

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