1835 MEVILLE B. COX. Memoir of First Methodist Missionary to Freed Slaves of Liberia - Colonization Society. Americana But very dull when we

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Relates an attack on him during the Boxer Rebellion in which he and his family were beaten with clubs and struck by swords

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"A Good Soldier of Christ

1835 MEVILLE B. COX. Memoir of First Methodist Missionary to Freed Slaves of Liberia - Colonization Society. Americana But very dull when weRather desirable first edition of the life of Melville B. Cox [1799 1833], the first Methodist Episcopal missionary to the freed American slaves sent to Liberia, Africa as a part of the efforts of the Colonization Societies. Cox's story is one of unbridled passion for the Great Commission. Initially an itinerant in New England, he was forced to leave the field as a result of Tuberculosis after just three years. He moved and became an editor, got