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became the Church Missionary Society.

Shortly afterward the Wesleyan Missionary

Society was founded. In the United States the

American Board of Commissioners for

Foreign Missions was formed in 1812, and

Adoniram Judson was sent out that year to

Calcutta. He established himself in Burma the

next year. In 1814 the American Baptist

Missionary Union was formed. The

Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions was

formed in 1837.

“In A.D. 1800, ... the overwhelming majority

of Christians were the descendants of those

who had been won before A.D. 1500.... Now,

in the nineteenth century, came a further

expansion of Christianity. Not so many

continents or major countries were entered

for the first time as in the preceding three

centuries. That would have been impossible,