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Canada and the United States

Paul William Harris. Nothing But Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions. (Religion in America Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 204. $39.95.

1837 was a troubling year for American evangelicals. This was especially true for Rufus Anderson, corresponding secretary of the American Board of Com-missioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), whose professional activism was bound up with the then twenty-year-long effort to export American Protestantism. After all, sustaining a missionary presence in the Sandwich Islands, Ceylon, or the Ottoman Empire was difficult in the best of times. That year's panic and its Great Schism only made matters worse. The severe economic contraction, for example, undercut the capacity of the ABCFM to raise funds to reinforce spiritual and educational outreach. A further hindrance was the growing power of northern abolitionism, against which southern Presbyterians rebelled. Wrote Anderson to missionaries in Bombay: "There is much radicalism abroad, political, religious, and moral, and it is sometimes hard to keep our good ship on her proper course" (p. 81). 1

Anderson neither doubted what constituted the proper course, nor that he was the best navigator of it. As Paul William Harris makes clear in this first major study of Anderson's career, the financial setbacks confronting and ideological threats to the missionary enterprise did not deflect the ABCFM secretary. Rather, they emboldened him in his efforts to direct and control the transmission of God's word to those he believed were benighted heathens. . . .

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