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Page 288. Foreign Missions.—The missionary

activity of the early Christian church has not

been duplicated until modern times. It had

virtually died out by the year 1000, and was

succeeded by the military campaigns of the

Crusades. The Reformation era saw little

foreign mission work, except on the part of

the early Jesuits. The pietistic revival

produced some missionaries. The work of the

Moravian Church in the eighteenth century

was remarkable, and there were some

missionary societies formed by the British for

work in colonized North America. But the

great resurgence of foreign missionary

activity begins around the year 1800, at “the

time of the end.” Daniel 12:4. In 1792 was

formed the Baptist Missionary Society, which

sent Carey to India. In 1795 the London

Missionary Society was organized, and

another society in 1799 which in 1812