Rufus Anderson
1796 – 1880
Rufus Anderson (August 18, 1796 - May 23, 1880) was born in North Yarmouth, Maine, U.S. His father was a Congregationalist pastor. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1818, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1822, and was ordained as a minister in 1826. He worked at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) as an assistant while studying at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1822 he applied to go to India but was asked to remain at headquarters and later appointed assistant secretary. In 1832 he was given total responsibility for overseas work.
Books
- Te Boki n anene
- Bartimeus, the blind preacher of Maui
- A sermon on the promised advent of the spirit
- Proposal for raising up a native ministry in the several missions
- An address delivered in South Hadley, Mass., July 24, 1839, at the second anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
- The missionary age
- Die Zeit für die Bekehrung der Welt ist reif
- An address
- Geschichte der mission auf den Sandwich-inseln
- Missionary schools
- Foreign missions
- Memorial volume of the first fifty years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- Dr. Anderson's farewell to the missionaries
- [Abstract history of the church from the creation to the resurrection of Christ]
- [General letters to the Sandwich Islands Mission, 1831-1861
- History of the Sandwich Islands Mission
- The promised advent of the spirit
- Synopsis of lectures on foreign missions
- Kapiolani, the heroine of Hawaii
- Memoir of Catharine Brown
- History of the missions of the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions to the oriental churches
- The Hawaiian Islands
- Remarks on the island of Cuba
- The Hawaiian Islands
- History of the missions
- Missionary House, Boston, March 23, 1852 [letter]
- The work of missions to be progressive
- [Letters on business affairs of the Hawaiian mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]
- Foreign mission
- The Morning Star and Micronesia
- Kapiolani, the heroine of Hawaii, or
- Observations upon the Peloponnesus and Greek islands
- History of the mission of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions to the Sandwich islands
- History of the missions of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions to the oriental churches
- Christian missionary desiring to be with Christ
- On deciding early to become a missionary to the heathen
- Report to the Prudential Committee of a visit to the missions in the Levant ...
- The theory of missions to the heathen
- History of the missions of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions in India
- Foreign mission
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